Auto theft in the United States dropped to its lowest levels since 1967 last year, according to a new report from the National Insurance Crime Bureau.
A surge of violent robberies has many pharmacists on edge, CNN's Patrick Oppmann reports.
Less than two hours after picking out a man in a police lineup who held up his drugstore, pharmacist Mike Donohue was being robbed.
A 29-year-old Los Angeles woman was charged with murder Friday and her two accused male accomplices were charged with robbery in a shotgun crime spree that allegedly resulted in the execution-style slaying of an MTV producer, authorities said.
Los Angeles police have linked three people arrested Wednesday to nine shotgun robberies and two murders, including Sunday's fatal shooting of an MTV producer, a police spokeswoman said Thursday.
The shooting death of an MTV producer Sunday morning may be related to a rash of robberies that included one other killing in Los Angeles over the past two weeks, police said.
A 65-year-old suspect in a $7 million Connecticut robbery was arrested more than two decades after the heist, the FBI said in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
Bank theft -- primarily by robbery -- fell by 7% last year, according to the latest statistics from the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
A Las Vegas judge whose 29-year-old son was arrested in the December robbery of Las Vegas' Bellagio casino said he is "devastated and heartbroken" but that "people who break the law need to be held accountable."
Las Vegas police have made an arrest in the Bellagio casino robbery.
Police said Thursday that evidence and a surviving victim tie a man killed while trying to rob an Illinois tanning salon to a two-state shooting spree earlier this year.
Police say they're trying to find a helmet-wearing gunman who robbed one of Las Vegas' most recognizable casinos of $1.5 million in casino chips Tuesday morning -- and may also have robbed a different casino last week.
Police say the man who robbed the Bellagio may be the same suspect who robbed another Vegas casino.
Eight Ann Arbor, Michigan, schools were under lockdown Thursday morning for over two hours as police searched for an armed man who robbed a nearby bank, police said.
A series of jewelry store robberies in Baghdad on Sunday led to clashes with police and left at least seven people dead, according to police in the Iraqi capital.
A brazen gunman wearing a porcelain doll mask robbed an Atlanta, Georgia, bank and made off with a stash of money, the FBI said.
Police in New York say they've unmasked the woman behind robberies at the city's shoe and bath stores, who donned a cat mask in at least one of the incidents.
A candidate in next week's U.S. congressional primary in Florida was robbed at gunpoint Saturday, according to the North Miami Police Department.
A suspect in a series of bank robberies in which the thief pedaled off on a bicycle has been apprehended, California authorities said Thursday.
Italy has the highest rate of bank robberies in Europe, an Italian study said this week.
A Southern California bank robber dubbed the "geezer bandit" has struck again, possibly knocking off his 11th bank, the FBI said.
About 10 men armed with pistols and small machine guns raided a casino in Switzerland and made off into France with several hundred thousand Swiss francs in the early hours of Sunday morning, police said.
Authorities in Connecticut say two would-be robbers tried "phoning in" to pull off a bank heist. It didn't work.
A man dubbed the "Granddad Bandit," suspected in more than a dozen robberies, struck again this week, the FBI said Friday.
Two men have been arrested in a bold and bizarre jewelry store robbery involving crooks who disguised themselves in Hasidic Jewish attire, complete with hats and false beards, police announced Tuesday.
Buoyed by the success of an electronic billboard campaign in catching a serial bank robber last year, authorities are trying the tactic again to identify another: a man dubbed the "Granddad Bandit," suspected in 18 robberies in 12 states.
About 600 witnesses are expected to testify in a trial that started Monday for a bank heist some call Argentina's "robbery of the century."
The FBI is asking for public assistance in finding a serial bank robber dubbed the "Granddad Bandit," who is believed to have struck in at least seven states.
A retired cop's insticts lead police to a suspected serial bank robber. CNN's Carol Costello reports.
A man authorities believe has robbed at least 10 banks in at least four states was arrested in Missouri after a retired state trooper saw him and learned he was wanted, authorities said Sunday.
Federal authorities have identified a suspect in the armed robberies of 10 banks in four states, crediting surveillance photos they posted on electronic billboards throughout the South.
He has been captured by bank surveillance cameras in four states, sneering and holding a pistol sideways during heists.
The FBI is seeking a bank robber who has hit as many as 10 banks in four states.
London police have charged a third man in connection with Britain's largest-ever jewelry heist, they said Friday.
London police arrested another man in connection with this month's brazen jewelry store robbery of some $65 million worth of gems, Metropolitan Police said.
Two men were arrested Wednesday in connection with this month's brazen London jewelry store robbery of millions of dollars worth of gems, Metropolitan Police said.
Police stormed a bank and killed three armed robbers Wednesday in Afghanistan's capital after their robbery attempt had escalated into a gun battle with security officers.
Two men walk out of a London jewelry store having pulled off the biggest jewel heist in British history. From ITN.
London police have arrested a man in connection with a brazen daylight robbery of a jewelry store last week, they announced Wednesday.
Two men are being sought for questioning in the brazen daylight robbery of a jewelry store last week, in which some $65 million in merchandise was stolen, authorities said Tuesday.
Ailing "Great Train Robber" Ronnie Biggs -- one of the most notorious British criminals of the 20th century -- was formally released from prison to his death bed Friday after being granted his freedom on compassionate grounds.
A Massachusetts grand jury late last week indicted a 23-year-old medical student on seven counts, including first-degree murder, in the fatal shooting of one woman and the robbery of another in Boston hotels.
Police in Boston, Massachusetts, are searching for a man suspected in the murder of one woman and the armed robbery of two others, all of whom, they say, he may have met through their Craigslist ads for personal services.
A man robs a convenience store and brings his 9-year-old daughter along. Dan Simon reports.
Villagers in eastern India burned eight suspected robbers alive and beat four others to death, police said Thursday.
CNN's Deborah Feyerick looks at why women rob banks.
She said she had nothing left to lose when she handed the bank teller the hastily scrawled note.
A rash of bank robberies in New York has the city's police commissioner worried that criminals have turned banks into "virtual cash machines" and some wondering whether tough economic times are fueling the trend.
While the chips are down, robberies are going up. CNN's Deb Feyerick reports.
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.
The FBI says that Atlanta is the bank robbery capital of the United States. CNN's Rusty Dornin reports.
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.
Pizza man waits with bomb
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.
Robber's Creative Disguise
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.
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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.
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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