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CHICAGO (CBS) – Mass Transit Detectives are looking for a suspect in a robbery on the Fullerton CTA Brown Line last week. Police said around 4 p.m. Tuesday, the suspect approached the victim at the Fullerton location and forcefully took a phone from her hand. The offender is described as a black male around … Read More “Police search for suspect in Fullerton Brown Line robbery” »
Cornered in the elevator of a Brooklyn building last week, police say a 74-year-old woman was robbed by a masked man who threatened to kill her. The victim was inside the elevator Wednesday morning with two men when one of them stepped off and the door closed, as seen in surveillance video released by police … Read More “Brooklyn Purse Elevator Robbery Caught on Camera – NBC New York” »
Two robbers pointed guns at a 68-year-old man and snatched his backpack outside his Kew Gardens Hills home last week, according to surveillance video released Tuesday. The victim walked up the steps to his home at 69th Avenue and Main Street in Queens and was opening the door around 6:45 p.m. Wednesday when the duo … Read More “NYC armed robbers snatch man’s backpack in Queens: video” »
Chilling video captures the moment a Los-Angeles-based drill rapper was shot dead inside a Bronx pharmacy in broad daylight by a group of four men trying to steal his gold chain. The disturbing footage — obtained by The Post Friday — shows the crew mercilessly attacking Avanti Frowner, 27, inside Amazing Pharmacy on East Tremont … Read More “Video shows moment drill rapper is killed in NYC pharmacy” »
A crew of robbers are being sought in connection to 26 stick-ups across Upper Manhattan and the Bronx, cops said Friday. Police are seeking a total of four men in connection to the spree that covered both the north and south Bronx – as well as the Fort George section of Manhattan – beginning on … Read More “Crew of robbers sought in 26 NYC stick-ups: cops” »
The mother of a 14-year-old straight-A student who was robbed at gunpoint by a bunch of cowardly thugs in Brooklyn Bridge Park says her son still wants to know, “why me?” “I was shocked,” Alasha Guy, 33, said of his son’s captured-on-video assault last weekend. “He called me after it happened and he was still … Read More “Mother of teenager ‘shocked’ over gun attack” »
SAN FRANCISCO (KPIX) – A small family-owned business in San Francisco is not sure how much more it can take after robbers again stole from them and injured one of their employees. Just before noon on Monday, two robbers escaped with designer glasses worth $ 40,000 from Veo Optics at 798 Valencia Street in the … Read More “‘It’s unbearable’: Robbers steal $ 40,000 worth of designer glasses from San Francisco Mission District store” »
CHICAGO (CBS) Police believe the same person is responsible for at least eight armed robberies involving a machete in Northwest Side neighborhoods. The attacks took place in Irving Park, Avondale and Logan Square. CBS 2’s Charlie De Mar spoke to only one woman – who said she thought she was going to die when she … Read More “The woman thought she would be killed when a machete-swinging robber confronted her in Avondale” »
A registered sex offender was attacked this week in the violent robbery and sexual assault of a 52-year-old woman on a street in Brooklyn, authorities said. The victim went home around 2 a.m. Friday at St. Marks Avenue near East New York Avenue when Miguel James, 42, pulled up next to her in a dark … Read More “Sex offender attacked in violent robbery in NYC, sexual assault” »
A registered sex offender was attacked this week in the violent robbery and sexual assault of a 52-year-old woman on a street in Brooklyn, authorities said. The victim went home around 2 a.m. Friday at St. Marks Avenue near East New York Avenue when Miguel James, 42, pulled up next to her in a dark … Read More “Sex offender attacked in violent robbery in NYC, sexual assault” »
