robbery
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California’s crime rate dropped last year to historic lows in several major categories, including violent crimes like robbery and homicides, with property crimes and incidents of car thefts also down, state officials announced.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 3, 2026
A 67-year-old south Armagh man has been found not guilty of the murder of Newry postal worker Frank Kerr during a 1994 IRA robbery of the city's postal sorting office.
From BBC ● Jul. 1, 2026
The case came to the Supreme Court from a bank robbery that happened in Richmond, Virginia, in 2019.
From Slate ● Jul. 1, 2026
The case was brought by Okello Chatrie, identified as a suspect in a 2019 Virginia bank robbery after investigators obtained a warrant to search cellphone location data stored by Google.
From Barron's ● Jun. 29, 2026
O'BRIEN But now you want us to believe that you participated in this robbery because you were afraid of Bobo, and not because this is what you do?
From "Monster" by Walter Dean Myers
She was moved to Lower Saxony, where many of the robberies had taken place, to stand trial.
From BBC ● May 27, 2026
And the follow-home robberies and street takeovers that captured the public’s attention in recent years have largely subsided.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 24, 2026
Court records from the Old Bailey reveal that people often prioritized their hats over money during robberies.
From Science Daily ● May 7, 2026
For nearly a decade, Oakdale and its neighboring towns endured “an unusual concentration of armed robberies of people who were not from Louisiana,” then-acting U.S.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 21, 2026
She was not frightened by rumors of robberies and assaults, but, somehow, she was reluctant to go for Brigid’s sake.
From "Lyddie" by Katherine Paterson
