FLUSHING, Queens (PIX11) — A man threatened two 13-year-old kids with a machete-like knife and tied their hands together with a shoelace before raping the young girl in a Queens park on Thursday, authorities said. “This incident is a parent’s nightmare,” NYPD Chief of Department Jeffrey Maddrey said at a press briefing Friday. The suspect […]
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Prosecutor finds Spokane Police officers, deputy justified in Aug. 2022 shooting that ended standoff with robber who shot at police
Jun. 14—Spokane law enforcement officers were justified in shooting and killing a man in August 2022 after a standoff during which he fired at police, the Spokane County Prosecutor found Friday. The shooting ended a nearly five-hour confrontation with Dominic Shears, who was wanted after a robbery earlier in the evening. Spokane Police detectives along […]
The wild stranger-than-Hollywood story of the ‘Point Break’ bank robber
“This was never about the money, this was about us against the system,” says tousled-haired bank robber Bodhi in the 1991 film Point Break. Played by Patrick Swayze, this chiselled hippie-like adrenaline junkie is explaining his modus operandi to his followers around a campfire: they’re socking it to The Man by standing up to a […]
Police searching for CitiBike riding serial Manhattan robber
Police are looking for a suspect in wave of robberies up and down Manhattan’s East Side. The man is suspected in at least nine robberies since May 19 in which he simulates a firearm, said police, who released images of a suspect Friday. The suspect frequently uses a CitiBike to approach his victims and make […]
Tips from public help police identify South Hill Cold Stone Creamery robber
May 22—Tips from the public helped police identify last month’s robber of the South Hill Cold Stone Creamery, according to the Spokane Police Department and court documents. Police officers and the department’s Violent Crimes Task Force arrested 52-year-old Dustin McElfish May 15 on suspicion of first-degree armed robbery, a police news release said. An employee […]
Woman admits to Monroe police that she lied about robber burning child
A woman who said a 2-year-old child was burned by a robber admitted to detectives that she fabricated the story, police said Wednesday. Monroe Police Department officers were called on April 23 to Talleyrand Avenue. The 911 caller, Maria Esquivel, told them a child had been burned during a robbery. She said a stranger attacked, […]
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‘Bold move’ enables delivery driver to escape accused robber, California cops say
A delivery driver escaped an accused robber by intentionally crashing his truck into a light pole, California police reported. The crash took place early in the morning of Saturday, April 27, Watsonville police said in a May 1 news release. The 41-year-old driver stopped at a gas station a short time earlier when a man […]
Accused robber killed in shootout with man carrying concealed gun, Illinois cops say
A 60-year-old man is wounded and an accused robber is dead following a shootout in Chicago, according to Illinois police. The shooting happened on the morning of Friday, March 8, on the city’s south side, a Chicago Police Department news release said. The 60-year-old was using an ATM when a man on a bicycle came […]
Robber flies track their beetle prey using tiny microbursts of movement
April in the Florida Panhandle. It was hot, humid, and a thunderstorm was lurking. But as a fresh graduate student, I was relieved for the escape from my first brutal Minnesota winter. I was accompanying my adviser, Paloma Gonzalez-Bellido, on a project that would end up dominating my Ph.D. work. Out in the scrubland, my […]
Robber pulls pants off Brinks security guard during North Texas holdup, police say
A man who robbed a Brinks security guard at gunpoint in North Texas pulled the guard’s pants off to prevent him from fighting back, police said. Irving police are trying to identify the robber shown in surveillance video of the holdup on Friday. The robbery happened about 9:45 a.m., when the gunman got out of […]