Tag: robber

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 […]

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, […]

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 […]