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Hahn said the transaction was akin to “robbing Peter to pay Paul.”

With him being an adrenaline junkie, there is something that goes with this lifestyle — robbing, and driving away, and being pursued, and going into hiding, and feeling all the pressure that comes with that.

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When Warren was arrested three weeks later on suspicion of robbing an elderly couple, a different judge let him out again with another provision for GPS tracking.

Detectives arrested Warren again three weeks later on suspicion of robbing an elderly couple at gunpoint.

The use of unclaimed bodies in medical schools was legalized in the 1800s as an attempt to stop grave robbing, where so-called “resurrectionists” dug up dead bodies and sold them to schools.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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