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Bank Robbery

Father Killed While Chasing Bank Robber

AP | Posted 06.19.2013 | Crime

WASHINGTON, Pa. -- A Pennsylvania bank robber fatally shot a supermarket customer who ran after him and tried to stop his getaway car, police said. S...

Search For Getaway Driver In Midtown Bank Robbing Spree

Posted 06.14.2013 | New York

A bank robber was busted trying to make a getaway by foot through the Lincoln Tunnel Thursday. Cops say 20-year-old Maverick Madore, who's believe...

Charges Brought In Boyfriend's Alleged Bank Heist

AP | Posted 05.20.2013 | Los Angeles

LOS ANGELES — A man was charged Monday with a $565,000 bank robbery in which his girlfriend – an assistant bank manager – was forced...

Woman Robbed Bank With Spaghetti Sauce: Cops

Newser.com | Posted 04.08.2013 | Crime

The woman, about 60, put a bag on the counter at a Michigan Fifth Third Bank, said it contained a bomb, and demanded money. "It did look like there wa...

Utah Couple Allegedly Brings Kids To Bank Heist

AP | Posted 03.13.2013 | Weird News

TOOELE, Utah -- Police in Utah say they've arrested a husband and wife bank robbery team that took their two children along for the illegal excursion....

LOOK: Bank Robber Uses Mitt Romney Mask

Posted 12.15.2012 | DC

View more videos at: http://nbcwashington.com. WASHINGTON -- A man wearing a Mitt Romney mask robbed a Wells Fargo bank branch in Sterling, Va., o...

'Stringer Bell Bandit' Arrested By Cops On Bicycles

The Huffington Post | Michael McLaughlin | Posted 12.03.2012 | Crime

Chicago police apprehended an alleged serial bank robber who authorities said had a striking resemblance to a character on the HBO show "The Wire." ...

Family Fallen On Hard Times Allegedly Turns To Robbing Banks

The Huffington Post | Michael McLaughlin | Posted 11.21.2012 | Crime

Police in Texas arrested a family suspected of pulling off several bank robberies while disguised as blue-collar workers in two states. Ronald Catt...

Accused Bank Robber Returns To Alleged Scene Of Crime To Complain He Was Shortchanged

AP | Posted 10.23.2012 | Crime

SYRACUSE, N.Y. -- Going back to a bank you just ripped off to claim you'd been shortchanged isn't likely to end well. That's what police say led to a...

Lucky Break Helps Capture Alleged 'Bucket List Bandit'

AP | SEAN MURPHY | Posted 09.15.2012 | Crime

OKLAHOMA CITY -- Authorities knew they would need a lucky break to catch a middle-aged bank robber who pulled off a dizzying number of heists in a thr...

'5K Bandit' Strikes SAME BANK For Third Time

Posted 09.13.2012 | Crime

California cops are on the hunt for a man who robbed the same bank for the third time in just over a year. The '5K Bandit' -- named by Los Alamitos...

WATCH: Fleeing Bank Robbery Suspects Fling Cash Out Of The Car

The Huffington Post | Anna Almendrala | Posted 11.12.2012 | Los Angeles

A car full of suspected armed bank robbers led police on a high-speed chase after robbing a Bank of America branch in the Santa Clarita, Calif. area W...

FBI Questions Bank Manager Forced To Rob Own Bank

Posted 09.06.2012 | Crime

FBI officials questioned a Los Angeles bank manager on Wednesday after she was strapped to a supposed bomb and forced by two thieves to steal money fr...

Guilty Conscience Gets The Best Of Bank Robber

AP | JAMES MacPHERSON | Posted 08.29.2012 | Crime

BISMARCK, N.D. -- Kent Anthony Clemens returned home to Kansas after a short stay in North Dakota's booming oil patch with a stack of crisp $50 bills,...

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University of Kentucky Employee Charged With Four Bank Robberies

HuffingtonPost.com | David Lohr | Posted 08.01.2012 | Crime

Authorities have charged a University of Kentucky employee in connection with the robbery of four Lexington banks. According to the Lexington Divis...

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NOT SO HONEST: Abe Lincoln Bank Robber Wanted By FBI

HuffingtonPost.com | David Lohr | Posted 07.02.2012 | Crime

The Abraham Lincoln look-alike pictured here is no zombie slayer or vampire hunter, but he is responsible for the recent robbery of a Houston bank, ac...

Bare Armed And Dangerous: FBI Distributes PHOTOS Of 'Muscular' Bank Robber

The Huffington Post | Michael McLaughlin | Posted 06.21.2012 | Crime

A burly thief has been nicknamed the "Bare Arm Bandit" for wearing tank tops during two recent bank robberies in Southern California. In an effort...

My First Bank Robbery

Jeffrey Scott Hunter | Posted 08.15.2012 | Crime
Jeffrey Scott Hunter

We decide that it's go time. We pull into the bank's parking lot and pull down our ski masks. I'm so jacked up that I go blasting into the bank before Dave can even get out of the hot box. Inside I start screaming and yelling for everyone to get down on the floor.

8 Of The Worst Robbery Getaways

Oddee.com | Posted 06.15.2012 | Crime

There's nothing like a clean getaway. But some crooks know nothing of clean getaways. They either hire someone with no arms as a driver or have the...

Why Robbing A Bank Won't Make You Rich

The Fiscal Times | Yuval Rosenberg | Posted 06.13.2012 | Home

The Fiscal Times: Crime actually does pay – just not enough to make it worthwhile. Freakonomics authors Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner...

Cops Handcuff 40 Adults In Effort To Snag Bank Robber

Posted 06.06.2012 | Denver

If you can't beat them... handcuff all of them? That may not be how the expression goes, but it was the theory put into practice by Aurora police over...

Darth Vader Robs Bank

The Huffington Post | Andy Campbell | Posted 05.27.2012 | Crime

Just be glad this guy's not your father. A man wearing a Darth Vader mask robbed a Toledo, Ohio bank last week, escaping with an undisclosed amount...

The Vulnerable Heart of Machismo

Shawn Lawrence Otto | Posted 07.16.2012 | Books
Shawn Lawrence Otto

In men there is something that is not well understood or accepted by the more gentle aspects of modern society. Few writers have captured the full-bodied compulsive pull of it as well as Deni Béchard does in Cures for Hunger.

64-Year-Old Arrested For Robbing Wells Fargo

Posted 05.16.2012 | Denver

A woman who allegedly intended to rob a Wells Fargo bank inside a grocery store didn't get very far after employees say they recognized her as the sam...

The Indie on Demand Movie Review: Citizen Gangster

Dan Persons | Posted 07.02.2012 | Entertainment
Dan Persons

In the latest episode of my weekly radio show, I take a look at Citizen Gangster, director Nathan Morlando's directorial debut (he also scripted) that tells the true story of Canadian bank robber Edwin Boyd (Scott Speedman).