A judge in Hawaii sentences the culprit for up to 30 years "a tidal wave of crime"
Masked robbers armed with automatic weapons stole about $6.3 million from a cash depot in suburban Copenhagen on Tuesday and left explosives in their wake to delay pursuit, police said.
Two masked and machete-wielding men who barged into a club in Sydney, Australia, couldn't have picked a worse night for their robbery -- a monthly meeting of bikers.
It was an image that got the nation talking: Two giggling young women in oversized sunglasses robbing a bank. The "Barbie Bandits" helped their hometown earn the dubious distinction as the nation's bank robbery capital.
Authorities disabled and blew up a device used Tuesday in a bizarre bank robbery in Hollywood, Florida.
CHICAGO (AP) -- A grand jury indicted four men in the armed robbery of Miami Heat forward Antoine Walker. Two of the men had been charged previously in the robbery of another NBA player.
A judge set bond at $5 million each for two men accused of tying up and robbing New York Knicks forward Eddy Curry at his suburban Chicago mansion.
A woman hatched a bizarre, complicated plot to fund the murder of her father with proceeds from a bank robbery using a co-conspirator posing as a hostage, federal authorities announced Wednesday.
Las Vegas has the highest rate of auto theft per capita of any metropolitan area in the country, according to data from the National Insurance Crime Bureau.
Preliminary information suggests an FBI agent killed Thursday during an attempted arrest of three bank-robbery suspects in New Jersey may have been accidentally shot by an another agent, the bureau said in a statement.
A judge in Hawaii sentences the culprit for up to 30 years "a tidal wave of crime"
Masked robbers armed with automatic weapons stole about $6.3 million from a cash depot in suburban Copenhagen on Tuesday and left explosives in their wake to delay pursuit, police said.
Two masked and machete-wielding men who barged into a club in Sydney, Australia, couldn't have picked a worse night for their robbery -- a monthly meeting of bikers.
It was an image that got the nation talking: Two giggling young women in oversized sunglasses robbing a bank. The "Barbie Bandits" helped their hometown earn the dubious distinction as the nation's bank robbery capital.
Authorities disabled and blew up a device used Tuesday in a bizarre bank robbery in Hollywood, Florida.
CHICAGO (AP) -- A grand jury indicted four men in the armed robbery of Miami Heat forward Antoine Walker. Two of the men had been charged previously in the robbery of another NBA player.
A judge set bond at $5 million each for two men accused of tying up and robbing New York Knicks forward Eddy Curry at his suburban Chicago mansion.
A woman hatched a bizarre, complicated plot to fund the murder of her father with proceeds from a bank robbery using a co-conspirator posing as a hostage, federal authorities announced Wednesday.
Las Vegas has the highest rate of auto theft per capita of any metropolitan area in the country, according to data from the National Insurance Crime Bureau.
Preliminary information suggests an FBI agent killed Thursday during an attempted arrest of three bank-robbery suspects in New Jersey may have been accidentally shot by an another agent, the bureau said in a statement.
A Miami Beach bank robbery Tuesday turned "bizarre," police said, after an alleged robber was arrested -- apparently unarmed -- and a man claiming to be his brother-in-law phoned threats to the bank.
For the fourth year in a row, Nevada has earned the dubious distinction of being the most dangerous state in America, according to a survey published Thursday.
Parents of an alleged teenage bank robbing duo said on national television this week they couldn' t comprehend how their daughters could have giggled behind fashionable sunglasses as they robbed a Bank of America branch last week.
The debut of Sony's PlayStation 3 game console resulted in reports Friday of disorder outside stores throughout the United States, as well as a robbery attempt in Connecticut that left one man shot and wounded.
Four of six hostages from a foiled robbery were safe and one suspect was in custody Wednesday night, but a second suspect still held two people -- including a 7-year-old girl -- in a carryout restaurant in Chillum, police said.
Greek police on Saturday retrieved one of the most sacred symbols of Greece, a 700-year-old icon of the Virgin Mary that was stolen from a remote monastery in a stunning robbery more than a month ago.
Aerosmith bassist Tom Hamilton is recovering from radiation treatment for throat cancer and will skip the beginning of the band's upcoming tour, the band's publicist said.
Aerosmith bassist Tom Hamilton is recovering from radiation treatment for throat cancer and will skip the beginning of the band's upcoming tour, the band's publicist said.
The West has the highest rates of auto theft in the United States, according to an analysis of auto theft data by the National Insurance Crime Bureau.
Buying a car is one of the biggest investments you can make. People today spend $30, $40 or $50 thousand dollars on their set of wheels.
Police investigating the theft of more than £53 million ($92 million) in a raid on a cash warehouse in southern England have recovered £11 million ($19.3 million) so far, police have revealed.
Police investigating Britain's biggest cash heist say they have discovered several million pounds at a warehouse in southeast London.
A fourth person has been charged in connection with last week's robbery of $92 million (£53 million) from a cash depot in Tonbridge, south of London.
British authorities have brought charges against two men and a woman in connection with the record-setting $92 million (53 million pound) robbery of a cash depot southeast of London, prosecutors said Wednesday.
British police hunting thieves who stole £53 million ($92 million) from a security warehouse have found what they believe is the truck used in the record cash heist.
British police say thieves stole £53 million ($92 million) during last week's heist at a security warehouse -- the biggest cash theft in British history.
Two more arrests have been made in connection with what is believed to be the largest cash robbery in British history, Kent police say.
Detectives investigating an armed robbery at a security warehouse in southeast England thought to have netted up to 50 million pounds ($87 million) in cash have released sketches of one of the key suspects.
Detectives investigating an armed robbery at a security warehouse in southeast England thought to have netted up to £50 million ($87M) say a car thought to have been used by the robbers has been found ablaze.
Police have searched for clues in a white van containing cash after what is believed to be the largest cash robbery in British history, police say.
Two people have been arrested in connection with the multi-million-dollar armed robbery in southeast England, police say.
Authorities in Kent, England, have appealed to the public for help in solving the armed robbery of a security company, which involved the kidnapping of a manager and resulted in the theft of 25 million pounds, or about $43.5 million.
The 19-year-old Virginia woman known as the "cell phone bandit" pleaded guilty Tuesday to bank robbery conspiracy and firearms charges.
Tuesday is expected to be a very busy day for online shoppers and for cyber thieves, according to a published report.
The FBI on Thursday asked for help in apprehending members of the "Gate Cutters Jewelry Crew," which authorities say has made off with more than $5.1 million in jewelry and gems from 56 stores along the East Coast.
The boyfriend of the alleged "cell phone bandit" pleaded guilty Thursday to federal charges in connection with four bank robberies in northern Virginia.
A woman police officer was shot dead and another woman officer seriously wounded while responding to a robbery in the center of Bradford, northern England, police said.
The woman accused of robbing four banks while talking on her cell phone -- earning the nickname the "cell phone bandit" -- was arraigned Wednesday and ordered held without bond.
Authorities early Tuesday arrested a northern Virginia woman suspected of robbing suburban Washington banks while talking on her cell phone, police said.
The U.S. violent crime rate declined 2.2 percent last year, continuing a decade-long downward trend in serious offenses, the FBI said Monday.
Recently released images of a pizza deliveryman who robbed a bank, then was killed by a bomb fastened around his neck, suggest he was unaware of any threat to his life, according to the FBI.
California still leads the nation in auto theft, according to a new report from the National Insurance Crime Bureau.
The Acura Integra is the favorite of car thieves, according to a report released Tuesday by a firm that tracks auto theft claims.
With prosecutors poised to call him to the stand, the legal woes for a key prosecution witness in the Michael Jackson trial continue to mount.
A key prosecution witness in the Michael Jackson case charged in a string of armed robberies in Nevada likely will refuse to testify at the pop star's trial, his lawyer said Wednesday.
In a twist likely to further complicate the prosecution's efforts to convict Michael Jackson, a former bodyguard expected to be a key witness against the pop star is sitting in a Las Vegas jail, facing a slew of felony charges stemming from four armed robberies.
Masterpieces by some of the world's greatest artists, including Rembrandt, Manet and Degas, were among more than a dozen art objects stolen 15 years ago in a cunning -- and so far perfect -- crime.
An attempt to steal a reported $423 million from a Japanese bank in London has been foiled, according to British police.
Britain has announced it will impose new financial penalties on Sinn Fein as punishment for the IRA's alleged involvement in the robbery of a Belfast bank.
Top Irish officials have accused three Sinn Fein members of being high-ranking leaders of the Irish Republican Army.
Three armed intruders, thought to be robbers, who took at least three hostages at the Spanish consulate in the Swiss capital Bern are on the run after special forces stormed the building, police said.
When Jose Rodriguez sat down to take a bite of his McDonald's chicken sandwich, he was also hoping to take a financial bite out of the restaurant.
Police are stepping up the hunt for up to 20 raiders who pulled off one of the world's biggest bank robberies in Northern Ireland.
NEW YORK (CNN/Money) -The Depression-era bank robber Willie Sutton famously targeted banks because "that's where the money is."
Car-crazed California had six of the top 10 cities with the highest car theft rates in the country in 2003, according to the National Insurance Crime Bureau (NICB), a non-profit organization that aims to fight insurance fraud and vehicle theft.
Violent crime in the United States dropped 3 percent last year, continuing the downward trend in the nation's crime rate over the past decade, the FBI announced Monday.
Cadillac's Escalade EXT, a $53,700 luxury pickup with chrome trim, leather bucket seats and a jazzy stereo system, is the most attractive target for car thieves, followed by the Nissan Maxima, an insurance industry study said Tuesday.
The FBI's seismic shift from a broad attack on crime to an intense focus on counterterrorism has resulted in tens of thousands fewer investigations into traditional crimes since the 9/11 attacks, according to a new Justice Department study.
Oslo's Munch Museum has closed for security upgrades two weeks after robbers stole its most famous exhibit, "The Scream."
Police are checking leads in the hunt for armed thieves who stole Edvard Munch's "The Scream," as new details show the robbers were more professional than first thought.
The thieves behind the brazen daytime heist of Edvard Munch's "The Scream" in Oslo may have a tough task ahead of them.
The audacious robbers who stole the nearly priceless Edvard Munch paintings, "The Scream" and "Madonna," from the Munch Museum in Oslo seem to have gotten away clean, at least so far. The big question, though, how can they turn the paintings into cash?
Norwegian police have launched a nationwide hunt for armed thieves who stole two classic paintings by Edvard Munch, including "The Scream," in a brazen daytime heist in Oslo.
Armed robbers have stolen two classic paintings by Edvard Munch, including "The Scream," in a brazen daytime heist in Oslo.
In the late '70s, a disillusioned Johannesburg police officer, Andre Stander, turned his back on the laws he swore to enforce and started robbing banks.
Spanish thieves who made off with three tons of green peppers hoping to make a healthy profit, might instead get a bad case of indigestion: the vegetables are toxic.
Three banks in this town were robbed Wednesday while President Bush and Democratic challenger John Kerry hosted rival campaign rallies, police said.
The thief who made off with Paul Kirk's barbecue grill is no vegetarian.
Mascots and lawn ornaments in Eaton County, Michigan -- and those who care about them -- can rest easily again.
Video game sequels often improve upon their predecessors. Game developers collect feedback from critics and players, incorporating the changes into the next title in the series.
London police have foiled an attempted robbery of £40 million ($70 million) in gold bullion at Heathrow Airport.
Would you upset an alligator named Mister Cranky Pants? Some thieves chanced it, but apparently soon regretted it.
J.L. Hunter "Red" Rountree shuffled into the bank and surveyed the teller windows.
The numbers are in, and thieves prefer Toyotas.
A car thief left a trio of streakers in Washington state out in the cold.
LUBBOCK, Texas (Reuters) - The oldest bank robber in the United States, 92-year-old J.L. Hunter Rountree, was sentenced to over 12 years in prison Friday after he pleaded guilty to robbing $1,999 from a Texas bank last August.
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