Weve had three armed robberies. Were working on some leads and were looking into a couple of people,
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Homicides are 250 percent of what they were last year, and they were high last year, and the number of street robberies, most of them armed, is pretty alarming. I don't think that anyone can rationally look at that and say it's just a blip. This is as serious as the city is saying it is.
After nine bank robberies ... it looks familiar after a while.
We believe one subject was involved. There has been a total of 18 bank robberies. Fifteen of these bank robberies were in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. The three remaining (bank robberies) were in the state of New Hampshire.
A majority of the crime in the downtown is property crime. There have been a few larcenies and burglaries, but robberies and assaults are not common in the downtown. There isn't usually any violent crime.
The FBI has long been a part of the security for the nation's banks because bank robberies have been a priority.
We had several robberies that happened this morning.
But generally, when a suspect robs more than once, it's a way to keep track of them and link the various bank robberies they're believe to be involved in. At this time, we've just got him linked to the two.
We're seeing an increase in confirmed robberies where the perpetrator is taking a victim's credit card and purchasing gasoline. We've seen enough of it that we're identifying it as a problem and something we need to address.
We had to leave. Many people were carrying weapons and there were robberies. There had been a change in governments from communism to a democratic government. We left our country to come here because this country had good opportunities.
He is so out of control with his crack addiction that he is willing to do armed robberies to support it,
Lewiston-Auburn has probably been the area that's been hit the hardest by bank robberies.
I am aware that my name has been connected with all the bank robberies in the country; but positively I had nothing to do with any one of them. I look upon my life since the war as a blank, and will never say anything to make it appear otherwise.
Certain robbery operations were being prepared. The link between terrorism and the robberies is very clear.
Where do these arms come from, these Saturday night specials that constitute the instrument of threats in bank robberies, or the hand grenades used by terrorists? How can their sales and their import be permitted?
Within the agency, I've always been treated fairly, ... I stood out because I was the only bilingual Hispanic, I believe, for about the first 13 years in the sheriff's office in my career. I ended up getting all the high-profile felony cases -- homicides, shootings, robberies -- involving Spanish-speaking individuals. So it accelerated my training, but it put a heavy workload on me.