Sheriff: Drunk dad, son rob home, son passes out

Officials say a drunk father and son burglarized a home and were caught after the son was found passed out under the invalid homeowner's bed. DeKalb County Sheriff Jimmy Harris said Wednesday that a 37-year-old man and his 19-year-old son were arrested Sunday.

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2 robbers, 3 months, 17 Washington bank robberies

The FBI believes two men are responsible for 17 bank robberies since May in the Seattle area.

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SC man is latest accused recession bank robber

Bruce Windsor lived the life of a respectable family man — father of four, deacon in his South Carolina church, youth soccer coach, a volunteer who helped build orphanages in Brazil. Then four days after his 43rd birthday, authorities say, he donned a mask, wig and sunglasses and tried to rob a bank at gunpoint.

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Wisconsin jewelry robbers fleeced as they flee

Two robbers leaving a Milwaukee jewelry store with cash and gems didn't get far with the loot — another group of thieves robbed them as the pair left the crime scene. Police Lt. Thomas Welch says a fight broke out in the street Wednesday before the groups got in vehicles and a chase ensued.

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Greedy Robbers Seeking 'Seconds' Nabbed

Three men who stole cash from a restaurant in Malaysia got caught when they returned for a second helping. The culprits grabbed 500 ringgit ($160) from the cash box early Sunday, then came back minutes later to ask for more.

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Dude, I Think We Picked the Wrong Bar

An armed robber picked the wrong target when he raided an Australian bar where a biker gang was holding a meeting. He ended up hog-tied and in a hospital.

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Nigeria Experiences Crime Boom

Men carrying AK-47s leap from late-model Mercedes Benz sedans and burst into a Tex-Mex restaurant, training their weapons on tables crowded with foreign workers, greasy fajita pans, Corona beer bottles and ashtrays.

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Accused Grave Robbers Dodge Sex Charges

Three men who dug up a young woman's corpse to have sex with it after seeing her obituary photo cannot be charged with attempted sexual assault because Wisconsin has no law against necrophilia, an appeals court ruled Thursday.

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Robbers on School Worksheet Draw Criticism

An elementary school worksheet that tells the story of four people who get away with robbing a house and describes how to do a card trick has drawn criticism from a Baltimore mother who sees it as promoting criminal activity.

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A man and woman notified police that robbers had stolen something from them at their Planeview apartment Monday night, and ended up being arrested themselves. What had been stolen? Marijuana.

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Law has finally caught up with a ring of picky burglars who had been targeting South Asian families in a Washington DC neighbourhood for their gold. Indian American residents of Fairfax, a suburb of the national capital in neighbouring Virginia, expressed relief as the police  …

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Police are looking for two suspects who managed to heat up a bottle for a crying baby while robbing a home Friday morning.

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The Pittsburgh Police robbery squad is hoping someone recognizes the surveillance photo taken of a man who robbed a Rite Aid Pharmacy in Shadyside

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The attempts of two men on Friday to rob a bank in Dinant, Wallonia, went spectacularly wrong when they used too much dynamite to blow open a cash machine.

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Merrimack, New Hampshire police had no trouble hunting down the two suspects who took cash from a local camp. They left behind their own mug shot.

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he alarm was screaming, but two robbers were able to spend hours stealing furnishings from a couple's home. They even convinced neighbors to help them.

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The sidewalk outside the Harlem store still was smeared with blood Friday, and the glass on the door still was blown out. Above the entrance, someone had scribbled the words, "Abandon hope all ye who enter here."

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Two midgets who work as professional wrestlers found dead in a low-rent hotel room may have been drugged by female robbers, according to Mexican authorities.

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A getaway driver who refused to break the speed limit during a police chase led to a gang of jewel robbers being caught and sent to prison for a total of 20 years.

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Dutch police have arrested twin brothers on suspicion of robbery after their alleged victim spotted a picture of them following him on Google's Street View map application, a spokesman said on Friday.

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A senior member of Guinea's military government has been criticised after he called for robbers to be burnt alive. Human rights groups said the idea by Capt Moussa Tiegoro Camara, in charge of fighting crime and drug trafficking, was "unacceptable" and "intolerable".

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This guy sure as heck didn't want to go to jail,but to do all that over a driving under suspension?

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In the first of a series of articles looking at policing in Nigeria, the BBC's Andrew Walker goes on a patrol with the newly formed, elite Specialist Anti-Robbery Squad (Sars) in the eastern city of Enugu.

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Cooper created the Violence Intervention Program (VIP) at the Shock Trauma Unit of the University of Maryland Medical Center, the state's busiest hospital for violent injuries. It became one of the country's first hospital-based anti-violence programs. More Articles

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Hit By Robber

I worked for Kroger in Irving and Houston Texas. I worked in the warehouse, was a general foreman in the transportation department, and worked in the stores as manager.

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A Romanian Mrs Mop who wrestled a crowbar from two crooks and used it to beat them over the head until they fled is to get a bravery award after her efforts were recorded on CCTV.

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Two thieves dressed in angel and devil costumes robbed a shop owner in Cologne at knifepoint on Thursday.

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Investigations into the spectacular heist at Berlin's luxury department store KaDeWe have run into a problem: The suspected robbers may be identical twins. That means that the traces of DNA found at the crime scene could be useless under German law.

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BREVARD COUNTY, Fla. -- Two suspects in a convenience store robbery may have been able to get away from the scene of the crime, but the heat from their car ultimately gave them away.

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Thieves stole a lump of fossilised dinosaur dung from the Natural History Museum in London, it has been revealed.

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BOYNTON BEACH - A shoplifter nearly ran over a Wal-Mart security guard Sunday night in Boynton Beach, police said, for two video games and a can of French onion dip.

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A frantic call to police reporting a car with a pair of masked bandits caused a scare on the A3 motorway, but they turned out to be a couple who had caught a cold, Erlangen police reported on Monday.

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Berlin police officers were left red-faced after realizing they had arrested each other as robbers made off with the cash stolen from holding up a shop. It happened at a liquor store in the city's Charlottenburg-Wimersdorf district.

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A Florida pizza delivery man who was challenged by armed robbers in the city of Miramar got in first with his own weapon - a large pepperoni pizza. More Articles

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