DA reacts to store clerk fatally shooting 16-year-old armed robber: ‘Once somebody puts a gun in your face, the rules change’
On Tuesday night, two men with guns entered a New Orleans convenience store and demanded cash. told WWLTV. One of the men, 16-year-old Cecil Battis, was seen pointing a gun with an extended magazine at a cellphone clerk at Sam's Meat Market and stuffing his pockets with cash and other items. The station said it […]
Judge tears into parolee bank robber who choked 81-year-old woman during $205 NYC heist
A federal judge on Tuesday threw a book at a man who threatened to choke and kill an 81-year-old woman after a serial bank robber who was already on parole in a “disturbing” robbery in Queens. Gerald Delos, 55, was sentenced to 15 years in federal prison for the April 6, 2023 robbery of Ridgewood […]
Legally Armed Food Vendor Shoots Alleged Robber Dead
Just before 9 p.m. Friday, a legally armed food vendor fatally shot a robbery suspect in Chicago. The vendor is “CCL” [concealed carry license] Holder'' got into a gunfight after a “brief struggle'' with a man around 30 years old, the robbery suspect, WGN-TV reported. reported. CBS Chicago noticed The robbery suspect was “hit multiple […]
Would-be robber bashes man, 24, in head with glass bottle in broad-daylight NYC attack: cops
In a broad daylight attack in Brooklyn this week, a would-be robber hit a 24-year-old man over the head with a glass bottle after he refused to hand over cash, police said. An unknown man approached the victim about 9 a.m. Monday a block away from her home on Ditmas Street near East 2nd Street […]
Concealed Carrier Kills Alleged Robber in Chicago-Area Walgreens
A robbery suspect was shot and killed by a man carrying a concealed carry permit at a Walgreens in Calumet City, Chicago, early Sunday morning. CBS News reported The incident occurred just after 2 a.m. After being shot, the robbery suspect fled the scene in a car, but when police found the car, he was […]
Meet 100-year-old retired NYPD detective Howard Bach — who met infamous bank robber Willie Sutton during his three decades on the force
He's the NYPD's oldest retired private investigator, still plays harmonica, and remembers the day he met famed bank robber Willie Sutton, who happened to be half-naked. Howard Buck, who turned 100 in July, joined the police force in 1948 after serving four years aboard the USS Mississippi in the Pacific during World War II. He […]
Video captures brave 8-year-old girl use baseball bat to help her dad fight off alleged armed robber
Minnesota liquor store manager He said he was shocked To see security camera footage of her helping her 8-year-old daughter fight off an armed robber with a baseball bat. The incident happened around 9:30 p.m. on Saturday as the store manager, who called himself Leo, was preparing to close Big Discount Liquors in Maplewood when […]
‘Bling Bishop’ Lamor Whitehead’s robber gets 7 years behind bars for live-streamed heist
A former inmate who robbed “Bling Bishop” Lamore Whitehead will spend less time in prison than the con man pastor he pointed a gun at during a livestreamed sermon. Saquan Pollack, 25, was sentenced to seven years in prison during a hearing in Brooklyn federal court on Monday. Livestream footage of the robbery of Bring […]
‘Bling Bishop’ robber wants lighter sentence because of preacher’s own crimes
A former inmate who robbed Brooklyn pastor Lamore Whitehead, aka “The Bling Bishop,” during a livestreamed sermon is asking for leniency in his sentence because the flamboyant preacher is also a con man. Whitehead is a “career con man and liar” who was sentenced to nine years in prison in June after a jury found […]
Georgia Chick-fil-A delivery driver fights off masked, gun-wielding robber in dramatic video
Footage has emerged of a dramatic brawl in which a Chick-fil-A employee in Georgia fought for his life against a gun-wielding robber who broke into the store and threatened to kill him. At approximately 4:30 a.m. on July 1, the delivery driver was alone inside the Stone Mountain fast-food restaurant when suspect Tommy Lee Williams, […]