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CHICAGO — A Minnesota man traveled to Chicago twice last year to rob banks, but he lost the money when someone stole his car with the cash inside, according to a federal criminal complaint. Alan Duncan, a convicted murderer, is charged with robbing Selfreliance Federal Credit Union, 2332 West Chicago Avenue, on November 20. Duncan returned to Minnesota after the robbery and is suspected of returning to Chicago ten days later to rob another bank. But Duncan confided in his brother that he lost the money — and more — when someone stole his car with the cash inside. Three...

A Florida man who robbed a bank while armed with a machete was sentenced to federal prison. Herve Fils Viaud, 31, was sentenced today by United States District Judge William P. Dimitrouleas to 78 months in federal prison, to be followed by five years of supervised release for robbing TD Bank in Delray Beach, Florida. On February 1, 2022, Viaud walked into a TD Bank wielding a machete. Viaud threatened to hurt several bank employees with the machete unless he was given money. Fearing for their lives, the employees gave Viaud approximately $1,234. A bank customer called 911 and reported...

A woman who fired several shots in the air near a ticket counter in Dallas Love Field Airport, Texas, before she was shot by a police officer has been pictured. Portia Odufuwa, 37, opened fire and shot several rounds of a handgun just before 11am this morning as terrified passengers hid under chairs and were evacuated amid the active shooting. Shortly after opening fire, a police officer at the scene confronted the woman - shooting and injuring her. She was taken to Parkland Memorial Hospital, where she remains, police said. The Federal Aviation Administration also issued a ground stop at...

He’s laughing all the way to the next bank. A John Dillinger wannabe is on the loose thanks to lax bail laws that set him free despite his arrest in connection to four Manhattan bank robberies. Sprung on Thursday, he promptly robbed a fifth bank, in Brooklyn, on Friday, law enforcement sources told The Post. So cops spent Saturday hunting once again for fugitive Gerod Woodberry, who allegedly pulled four heists at Chase banks in Chelsea, the Upper West Side and the West Village between Dec. 30 and Jan. 8. Because Woodberry allegedly robbed using a note, rather than a...

Man went into bank in southern Israeli city of Beersheba and demanded money. He held what he said was a grenade and threatened to throw it if staff refused. Robber went to another branch of the same bank five days later to repeat stunt. He walked away with $8,000 before police tracked him down and found the explosive was actually an avocado he painted black. The 47-year-old man, ... handed a cashier a misspelled note demanding money. When the Postal Bank worker hesitated, the man pulled out what he said was a grenade and threatened to throw it if she...

They had a habit of targeting banks in disguises. Over three months last year, the two young women went to four of them in New Jersey and Pennsylvania. Once they dressed as nuns. Other times they wore hijab head coverings. Twice, they fled banks empty handed. At another, they tried to pry open an ATM machine with a screwdriver. They did not complete the withdrawal. They actually robbed a Spencer Savings branch in Garfield, New Jersey, at gunpoint, on Sept. 27, 2017. Their take was $2,900. Now, Melisa Aquino Arias, 23, of Passaic and Swahilys Pedraza-Rodriguez, 19, of New Haven,...

STAPLETON, Staten Island -- A cross-dressing bank robber who donned a silver and black formal dress, silver high heels, a black hat and sunglasses to rob a beautiful landmarked bank in downtown Staten Island Monday is being sought by the New York Police Department and the FBI. Investigators say the unidentified man also displayed a silver handgun -- that matched his outfit -- during the robbery around 1 p.m. at the Santander Bank at 81 Water Street. Witnesses describe the robber as a man dressed in a silver and black formal dress, silver high heels, wearing a black hat and...

An Ohio criminal made the mistake of robbing a bank that had an armed, off-duty police officer inside — and loaded his gun with the wrong kind of ammunition. The now-deceased 20-year-old Terry Frost III timed his robbery perfectly Wednesday, and knew the exact moment the teller withdrew $90,000 from the ATM. Police have now released surveillance footage of the shooting. Frost sprinted into a Madison, Ohio bank and within seconds jumped the front desk, grabbed the bag, and then found himself on the receiving end of Officer Kevin Hankerson’s weapon. Frost pointed his weapon, wrapped in a plastic shopping...

Short man robs bank in supermarket FALLBROOK, Calif. — A diminutive man in sunglasses robbed a North County supermarket banking desk Friday, authorities reported. The thief, who appeared to be in his early 30s, handed a demand note to a teller at the U.S. Bank office at the Albertsons store in the 1100 block of South Mission Road in Fallbrook shortly after 10 a.m., according to the FBI. The bandit fled with an undisclosed amount of money. Witnesses described him as a roughly 5-foot-4-inch, 110-pound white man with short brown hair, freckles and protruding ears. The same man is believed...

Burka bandit tries to hold up National City bank, CBS8 San Diego, August 2, 2013 A woman tried to rob a bank in National City, and officials sought the public's help locating her. The attempted robbery occurred at around 6 p.m. Thursday at a Wells Fargo Bank branch at 1199 Highland Ave., according to FBI Special Agent Darrell Foxworth. "At the time of the robbery, the woman entered the bank and stood in the teller line until summoned by a teller," Foxworth said. "Upon arriving at the teller counter, the woman presented a demand note." The teller read some of...

YORK – It appears that before her arrest, Hannah Sabata, 19, of Stromsburg, Neb., made a YouTube video in which she brags about stealing a car and robbing a bank. Sabata was taken into custody Wednesday on charges that she robbed the Waco bank Tuesday after stealing a car in York.

ORLANDO, Fla. — Police said a woman who usually directs Orange County school bus drivers was behind the wheel during a bank robbery. Sharon Reynolds-Bell is a longtime employee of the Orange County School District, and Titusville police said she drove a car for her husband as he robbed a TD Bank earlier this month. Reynolds-Bell has worked for Orange County public schools for nearly 24 years. Now, the alleged bank robber is suspended with pay, which means she gets $17.20 per hour. Police said Reynolds-Bell, a longtime school bus dispatcher, was also a getaway driver for her husband. "I'm...

Local law enforcement agents arrested a suspect early Friday morning at an Odessa hotel, several hours after a Midland bank was robbed. Mark David Willmann, 42,was charged with bank robbery, a federal offense. U.S. Magistrate Judge David Counts granted a temporary motion by the U.S. Attorney’s Office to hold Willmann without the possibility of bond. -snip- Law enforcement agencies received tips identifying Willmann from a photo of the bank surveillance video released to local media outlets shortly after the robbery .... Two people positively identified Willmann about an hour after the photo and story were posted on the Reporter-Telegram’s social...

WAYNESBURG, Pa. — Police said a woman who appeared to not have any teeth in surveillance photos from a Waynesburg bank robbery last month has confessed, apologized and said she planned the heist because she needed the money for dentures. Evelyn Marie Fuller, 49, of Carmichaels, was arrested Tuesday by police in Waynesburg, where she's charged with robbing the First National Bank on Jan. 20. Police said the woman claimed to have a gun when she handed a teller a note demanding money, but never actually flashed the weapon. Fuller told a district judge she has mental health problems and...

PITTSBURGH -- Pittsburgh City Council has approved paying $6,000 to settle an excessive force lawsuit filed by a man serving 10 to 20 years in prison for a bank robbery and 20-mile rush-hour police chase. Tuesday's vote settles the lawsuit filed in August by 39-year-old John McAleavey Jr., of Ridgemont, who claimed police were too rough and wrongfully used stun guns during his arrest in September 2008. McAleavey sued, claiming officers broke his nose, injured his head and left him with nerve damage by shocking him for 20 seconds. He claims the injuries hindered his "future horizons" because he can't...

Alleged Bank Robber Takes Hostage - Shot By Police After Slipping And Falling On Ice Updated: Friday, 28 Jan 2011, 10:18 AM EST Published : Friday, 28 Jan 2011, 9:53 AM EST by MYFOXDC TAKOMA PARK, Md. - Dramatic video shows an alleged bank robber being taken down by police after slipping and falling on ice. WARNING – GRAPHIC VIDEO The incident happened at the Capital One Bank in Takoma Park, Md. around 9:00 a.m. on Friday. Police had the bank surrounded when the alleged robber came out of the front door with what looked like a gun to the...

GRANTS PASS, Ore. - Two people are under arrest in connection with a bank robbery in Grants Pass Monday afternoon. The Grants Pass Department of Public Safety says 37-year-old Erica Fay Anderson robbed the Umpqua Bank on Midland Avenue at about 2:15 p.m. Monday, and then went to pick up her two daughters from Highland Elementary School. Authorities say she presented tellers with a demand note, and then fled with the cash. However, they say an alert citizen turned in a description and plates of a suspicious vehicle that investigators connected to Anderson. She was arrested at her home.

INDIANAPOLIS -- A convicted bank robber just released from prison was arrested Monday in connection with four more holdups...

A violent leftist jailed 25 years for her role in some of the most notorious radical acts of the early 1980s has died in Brooklyn. Marilyn Buck was 62 and had been paroled from a federal prison in Fort Worth, Texas on July 15. She died Tuesday. In 1981, Buck was part of group of militants who ambushed a Brink's armored car at a mall north of New York City. A guard and two police officers were killed during the heist.

Investigators say a bank-robbing suspect gave himself away in part when he spoke. The FBI released a series of photos and some videotape on Thursday of a bank robbery that took place last Friday at the Inland Federal Credit Union in the 550 block of Broadway in El Cajon. According to investigators, the suspect walked toward the bank at about 9:30 a.m. and confronted a bank employee, with the robber telling the worker he had a weapon. The robber then forced his way into the vault area of the bank with the worker in tow. A bank employee who gave...