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SNIPPET: "2. According to a criminal complaint filed in the Southern District of California, Naushad, together with co-defendants Tamim Abdul-Samad AKA Brandon Harris, and Darryl Eugene Peterson AKA Najm, robbed a CitiBank branch in La Mesa, California, on 19 April, 2010."

July 9, 2010 NOTE The following text is a quote: Three-Time Armed Bank Robber Sentenced to 10 Years in Prison; Deportation Hearing to Follow Prison Term Dwayne, K. Lewis, 28, of Bridgeport, Connecticut, was sentenced Friday to 120 months in federal prison on armed bank robbery charges. Lewis pleaded guilty February 1, 2010 to armed bank robberies in Rhode Island, Massachusetts and New York in which nearly $269,000 was taken. Lewis, a Jamaican national, faces a deportation hearing after completing his prison sentence. United States Attorney Peter F. Neronha announced the sentence, which was imposed by U.S. District Court Chief...

A man convicted in the Huntington Bank robbery and shooting learned his fate in court on Friday. A judge sentenced Brian Kendrick to 53 years in prison. He received 30 years for attempted murder, 14 years for robbery, 8 years for feticide, and 1 year for a handgun violation...

Customer tackles bank robber (raw video) Dramatic surveillance video from suburban Milwaukee shows a customer stopping a bank robbery by tackling the suspect and then holding him until police arrived. (AP/Sept. 21)http://www.ajc.com/video?bcpid=1659825399&bclid=1716449804&bctid=41523554001

The man wanted for about a dozen bank robberies, including two in Henderson County, North Carolina has struck again in Indiana on Friday. The robberies have taken place in North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, & Kentucky.

Jim Nicholson knew he should have just handed over the cash. But when the thin man in a beanie cap, dark clothing and sunglasses pushed a black backpack across the bank counter and demanded money, Nicholson says his instincts took over. After more than two years working as a teller at the Key Bank branch in Lower Queen Anne, Nicholson clearly understood the bank's strict policy of quickly complying with robbers' demands and avoiding confrontation. Instead, Nicholson threw the bag to the floor, lunged toward the robber and demanded to see a weapon. Surprised, the would-be bank robber backed up...

Jon Opsahl said he doesn't think domestic terrorist-turned-housewife Sara Jane Olson served nearly enough time for his mother's murder, but he's relieved the saga ended with Olson's Tuesday release from prison. Sara Jane Olson was released from a California prison Tuesday after serving seven years. Sara Jane Olson was released from a California prison Olson, a member of the self-styled revolutionary Symbionese Liberation Army -- perhaps best known for kidnapping Patricia Hearst -- was released from a California prison after serving seven years, the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation said. She was released to her husband just after midnight...

A bank robber solved his own crime for authorities last week, leaving a pay stub with his name and address at the scene, according to the Chicago office of the FBI. Thomas Infante, 40, was arrested after the Fifth Third Bank at 4017 West Lawrence was robbed on Friday. Infante walked into the bank and handed a teller a threatening note demanding cash, according to an FBI news release. What the FBI said they noticed but Infante failed to consider was that the note was written on the back of his own pay stub. When he fled the bank, Infante...

Lottery winner wasn't supposed to gamble By MARK PRATT, Associated Press Writer Nov 28, 2007 BOSTON - The winner of a $1 million lottery scratch ticket may not be so lucky after all: He's a convicted bank robber who isn't supposed to gamble. Timothy Elliott faces a Dec. 7 court hearing over whether he violated his probation when he bought the $10 ticket for the $800 Million Spectacular game at a supermarket in Hyannis. Elliott was placed on five years' probation after pleading guilty in October 2006 to unarmed robbery for a January 2006 heist at a bank on Cape...

DANA POINT - A suspected bank robber led police on a freeway car chase Friday afternoon from Anaheim 35 miles south to the Dana Point Harbor before shooting himself in the head while horrified witnesses watched from a distance.The suspect, believed to be the man police had dubbed the “Armada Bandit,” was wanted in connection with at least a dozen bank robberies in Orange, Los Angeles and San Diego counties, sheriff’s spokesman Jim Amormino said.The FBI’s Los Angeles office listed him among the area’s top eight “most wanted” bandits. He earned the “Armada Bandit” nickname because he was known to...

I'm currently watching an episode of a series called "The Enforcers" about a bank robber named Byron Shane Chubbuck, who robbed banks in New Mexico in the late 1990s. He is depicted as taking a woman hostage during a standoff with police, and trying to kill the same police dog twice during altercations with police. I did a Google search on the guy, and several websites call him a "political prisoner"!! American Indian Prisoners describes him as "a wolf clan Cherokee/Choctaw raised in New Mexico, his Indian name is Oso Blanco and he became known by the authorities as “Robin...

On This Day In History July 22, 1934 John Dillinger Gunned Down By FBI During the 1930s Depression, many Americans, nearly helpless against forces they didn't understand, made heroes of outlaws who took what they wanted at gunpoint. Of all the lurid desperadoes, one man, John Herbert Dillinger, came to evoke this Gangster Era, and stirred mass emotion to a degree rarely seen in this country. Dillinger, whose name once dominated the headlines, was a notorious and vicious thief. From September, 1933, until July, 1934, he and his violent gang terrorized the Midwest, killing 10 men, wounding 7 others, robbing...

Ex-Marine tackles suspected bank robber July 13, 2007 09:15 EDT DECATUR, Ga. (AP) -- A man picked the wrong bank to try to rob. The suspect was tackled by a former Marine who'd gone to the bank because he was irritated about the disappearance of 100 dollars from his bank account. Police say Timothy Armstead was waiting at a Washington Mutual Bank branch in Decatur, Georgia, to talk about the missing money when a man came in with a fire extinguisher, told bank employees he had a bomb, and gave them five minutes to give him cash. Police say Armstead...

Bank robber turned in by sons gets 40 years in prison December 29, 2005 - A central Illinois bank robber turned in by his own sons was sentenced Thursday to 40 years in federal prison for a string of small-town heists. U.S. District Judge Jeanne Scott gave the minimum sentence allowed by law to William Alfred "Al" Ginglen of Lewistown, who at 64 likely will spend the rest of his life behind bars. The judge also ordered Ginglen to pay $56,382 in restitution to repay the money authorities say he stole to support a girlfriend, a crack cocaine habit and...

CENTREVILLE, Va. – FBI agents arrested a woman Tuesday who was suspected of robbing four banks in suburban Virginia while appearing to be talking on a cell phone. Candice R. Martinez, 19, was arrested just before 4 a.m. at a home in nearby Centreville, Va. after an FBI agent spotted a car nearby with license plates they had been searching for. The FBI had issued a bulletin a few hours earlier saying Martinez and her boyfriend could be heading to Texas, New Mexico or New York, said Debbie Weierman, a spokeswoman from the FBI's Washington Field Office. "It was a...

SAN DIEGO – A man suspected of being the "FedEx Bandit," so dubbed because he allegedly used an envelope from the delivery company to stash money during numerous holdups, pleaded innocent Wednesday to 32 counts of bank robbery. Farzad Farhbaksh, a 40-year-old Iranian national who also has used the names Farzad Naroii and Ernest Lozano, was ordered held on $5 million bail. Deputy District Attorney George Bennett asked for bail to be set at $1 million, but Judge David Szumowski said that amount was too low and announced the higher figure. In addition to the 32 holdups in San Diego...

Savannag, GA - A Savannah man was arrested after he told a 13-year-old girl to hand a note to a bank teller threatening a holdup, police said. Michael Lyons, 45, told police that he and a group of girls celebrating his daughter's birthday were trying to play a practical joke. The note said "Give me all of your money, this is a stick up," according to a police report. While Lyons was getting money out of an ATM on Friday, the girl went into the bank and handed the note to a teller. The teller sounded the bank's alarm and...

MUNCIE, Ind. (AP) -- Michael Shewman won't be cleaning up with his vacuum cleaner. He's been sentenced to 20 years in prison after pretending that a vacuum cleaner attachment was a gun. Authorities say Shewman admits to robbing a Village Pantry and Mutual Federal Savings Bank in Muncie, Indiana, last July. He's pleaded guilty to two counts of armed robbery, the weapon being the vacuum cleaner nozzle.

PUBLICATION: National Post DATE: 2005.01.26 BYLINE: David Rennie SOURCE: The Daily Telegraph DATELINE: BRUSSELS ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -------- Judge allows robber to deduct gun ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -------- BRUSSELS - A Dutch court has allowed a bank robber to claim the $3,200 cost of the pistol used in the hold-up as a legitimate business expense. The 46-year-old bank robber was permitted to set the cost of the gun against his gross proceeds of $10,575, gained during his raid on a bank in the southern town of Chaam. The judge at Breda criminal court duly reduced his fine by the same amount, in addition to...

Delegate's son arrested for bank robbery RICHMOND, Va. (AP) -- Richmond Del. Dwight Clinton Jones' son was arrested Thursday and charged with bank robbery.Members of a fugitive task force arrested Dwight Brenton Jones, 32, and charged him with the Jan. 11 robbery of a Wachovia Bank branch in Chesterfield County. Officials said Jones also will be charged on Friday with two other Wachovia robberies.Jones was being held without bond Thursday night in the Chesterfield County Jail pending a March 10 hearing."This is a difficult time for me and my family," the elder Jones said in a statement. "I want to...