Oct 25 - By Associated Press
Tracking down three alleged home invaders became easier for Paterson police after one of the bandits dropped the keys to their getaway car. Authorities said the gun-toting men entered a city apartment early Friday, expecting to find loads of money.
Oct 24 - By Associated Press
Police in northern New Jersey nabbed three alleged burglars who fled an apartment with just $2 in change and left behind the keys to their getaway car.
Aug 26 - By Associated Press
British police say they're on the trail of a burqa-clad bandit, or bandits, who robbed three different locations in the past two months.
Aug 13 - By Associated Press
Somebody's been feathering their nest with an irreplaceable English archive of rare tropical birds.
Feb 17 - By Associated Press
One of two Colorado men who used women's thong underwear to cover their faces while they robbed a convenience store has been sentenced to 12 years in prison.
Nov 10 - By Associated Press
Police say three armed thieves stormed into a Long Island home to steal a water jug full of loose change. Suffolk County police said the masked suspects descended on the East Patchogue home around 2 a.m. Saturday.
Oct 31 - By Tom Hays, Associated Press Writer
A New York City police officer was charged Friday with being a member of a robbery crew that specialized in impersonating police and torturing rival East Coast drug dealers until they gave up stashes of cocaine and cash.

Jul 18 - By Tom Hays, Associated Press Writer
They bound their victims with duct tape, beat them and held guns to their heads. When that didn't work, the bandits applied pliers to their genitals and pressed hot irons to the soles of their feet. Sometimes they held victims' heads under water in a bathtub.

Jul 17 - By Frank Bass, Associated Press Writers
Small firms that want to do business with the federal government must keep three cardinal rules in mind: Location, location, location.

May 30 - By Associated Press
Police in a Colorado town are searching for two robbers whose masks showed plenty of fashion sense but little modesty: women's thong underwear.
Apr 8 - By Associated Press
The head of the Georgia NAACP called for the state to investigate the sentences given in the so-called "Barbie bandits" bank theft case, saying the two white defendants got less prison time than two black men.
Mar 24 - By Associated Press
A man convicted of being the mastermind behind the so-called "Barbie Bandits" bank theft was sentenced Tuesday to 10 years in prison.
Mar 7 - By Associated Press
A jury on Friday convicted the mastermind behind the so-called "Barbie Bandits" bank robbery.
Dec 6 - By Shawn Pogatchnik, Associated Press Writer
Ireland's national police force has arrested two men in connection with an audacious robbery last week on the landmark Guinness Brewery in Dublin — but said Thursday they were still looking others involved in the beer banditry.
Nov 11 - By Associated Press
Robbers posed as flower deliverymen to get into an 80-year-old woman's apartment and steal at least $60,000 in savings her husband kept in cash, the victims and police said.

Mar 29 - By Errin Haines, Associated Press Writer
Two young women charged with stealing nearly $11,000 in a bank heist went on a shopping spree, ate a meal and even gave money to the homeless afterward, a police detective testified Thursday, as the judge lowered the bond for one suspect.

Mar 5 - By Associated Press
The mother of an 18-year-old arrested in a bank theft scheme said Monday that her daughter isn't a bandit, she just fell in with the wrong crowd and made a bad choice.

Feb 28 - By Associated Press
Georgia authorities Wednesday were searching for two young women, possibly teenagers, who robbed a supermarket bank branch, laughing as they held up a teller with nothing but sunglasses to disguise their faces.