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A mugger possibly posing as a UPS delivery man beat a woman with a weighted sock and robbed her of $25 inside the elevator of a Manhattan building over the weekend, police said Sunday. The 26-year-old victim was getting off the lift in the building at East 27th Street and Third Avenue in Kips Bay at around noon on Saturday when the creep pulled her back in and beat her “multiple times” in the back of the head with what cops described as “a sock filled with an unknown object.” He then grabbed the small amount of cash from her...

The government appears to agree that Charles Foehner shot a man in self-defense. He may spend decades behind bars anyway.A New York City man is facing a mound of criminal charges and a sentence that would amount to life in prison after he shot and killed a man who, according to surveillance footage, was attempting to mug him. The kicker: The government appears to agree with the defendant, Charles Foehner, on at least one major point: that the shooting was justified. Indeed, prosecutors have not attempted to indict Foehner, 65, on any homicide-related charge. The counts he's facing—there were...

A nine-year-old Florida girl’s brave actions were recognized by police after she punched a robber in the face as he mugged her mother. The incident occurred outside of Sabor Tropical Supermarket in West Palm Beach on November 2, when Danielle Mobley and her daughter, Journee Nelson, were loading groceries into their vehicle, according to the Miami Herald.

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the suspect was holding a semi-automatic handgun and pointed at him saying “give me all your money, you’re in the wrong neighborhood.”The man then handed over his cash and cell phone and walked back to his car. The victim stated he began to honk his horn hoping to scare the suspect and get help...it was then when the suspect began running towards the man and stood next to the passenger’s side of the van yelling something at him while pointing the gun. The victim added he turned on his vehicle and tried to leave the scene, but he turned his...

Toronto police have arrested a man after Toronto restaurateur Arron Barberian fought off a would-be thief in broad daylight in front of his downtown steakhouse. 'I whipped him to the ground a couple of times.'- Arron Barberian The attack happened as Barberian, 50, was taking a cash box from one of his two Elm Street restaurants at about 10:20 a.m. ET on Monday.A man approached from behind and grabbed the box. But Barberian hung on, and fought back. "He pushed me, you know I pushed back. He grabbed the money and then I whipped him to the ground a couple...

In a stunning illustration of karma — or perhaps crime and punishment — this video shows a mugger in Colombia wrestling away a woman’s mobile phone and immediately being hit by a bus. But the story doesn’t end there. The woman — robbed by the suspect just moments before — actually gets down and helps her attacker out from under the bus. And in what seems like a miracle, the mugger was only slightly injured, the UK’s Telegraph reports. The Telegraph says the mugger and accomplices had pulled similar crimes, but perhaps this incident will change his ways. Hit by...

A Milwaukee Army reservist says four muggers returned his belongings when they discovered his military identification. The 21-year-old college student says he was walking home from work about 1:15 a.m. Tuesday when he was pulled into an alley and told to lay face down with a gun to his neck. Four men took his wallet, $16, keys and his cell phone. But the reservist says when one of the men saw an Army ID in the wallet, he told the others to return items. He also apologized and thanked the reservist for serving. The reservist says one robber gave him...

A New Jersey man with a lengthy rap sheet was indicted yesterday for preying on senior citizens in a months-long mugging spree through Greenwich Village and Chelsea. The oldest of Robert Stewart's victims was 91, prosecutors said. [snip] ...he accosted the 91-year-old man, whom he'd followed into a building on West 12th Street. He hit him in the head and took $400 from his wallet, investigators said.

Former child star DANNY BONADUCE was slashed across the chest and arm with a knife during a recent failed attempt to mug him.

February 23, 2007 A US tourist realized a robbery wasn't a joke when a masked robber put a gun to her head and a military veteran in her tour group grabbed the young assailant and killed him with his bare hands. "I thought it was a skit. But then he pointed the gun at my head and grabbed me by the throat and I thought I was going to die," Clova Adams, 54, told The Associated Press by telephone from the Carnival Liberty cruise ship on Friday, two days after the thwarted robbery. The assault took place during a ship...

Ex-Senator Injured in Chicago Mugging Sunday April 29, 2007 1:46 AM CHICAGO (AP) - Former U.S. senator and presidential candidate Carol Moseley Braun suffered a broken wrist when a mugger tried to steal her purse, authorities said Saturday. Braun, 59, was standing at her front door late Friday when an assailant came out of the bushes and tried to take her purse, said her spokesman, Kevin Lampe. When Braun resisted, the man pulled a knife and cut the strap of the purse. During the struggle, Braun fell, fracturing her left wrist. She was later treated and a released from a...

NEW YORK (AP) -- A possible suspect emerged on Friday in the one of the city's more notorious unsolved crimes: the brutal mugging last month of a 101-year-old woman with a walker. Police began questioning Jack Rhodes, 44, after noticing he matched a photo of a person wanted for questioning in robberies of women in Queens. Among those victims was 101-year-old Rose Morat, whose holdup was captured on a surveillance tape that outraged New Yorkers. "If it's the right man, it's wonderful,'' Morat told The Associated Press when reached Friday by phone. But she also cautioned she wouldn't be...

(CBS) NEW YORK She's 86, had five strokes, a broken hip and Wednesday, Elisabeth Rubin fought a mugger to a draw not far from Madison Square Garden. Rubin was killing time Wednesday at midmorning waiting for the M20 to take her to doctor's appointment, so she looked at the watches in the Tourneau window at 34th and 7th Avenue. "In the glass I saw him coming up behind me acting strange," she said. The man was swinging what she described as a wood signpost. By her account, he hit her in the arm, then in the head as he grabbed...

A South African mugger was mauled to death by tigers after he fled the scene of his crime and took refuge in what turned out to be a tiger enclosure at a nearby zoo, police said. The incident took place on Sunday in Bloemfontein, about 400 kilometres south-west of Johannesburg. "The guy who was found in the tiger enclosure had been trying to escape after he had robbed a couple with a knife early on Sunday morning," said police spokesman Sam Makhele. "There were security guards nearby and they gave chase to this man and he jumped the fence into...

Terror suspect is a convicted mugger By Duncan Gardham and Philip Johnston (Filed: 27/07/2005) One of the four suspects in the attempted suicide bombings in London last week spent several years in prison as a mugger, the Telegraph can reveal. Despite his record, Muktar Said Ibrahim, 27, also known as Muktar Mohammed Said, was granted a British passport less than a year ago. A key condition of naturalisation is that an applicant must be ''of good character''. Muktar Said Ibrahim Ibrahim detonated a bomb in a rucksack on a No 26 bus in Hackney Road, east London, last Thursday but...

The following is a personal story about something that happened to me and my family. My mom was recently told that she needed to have an extremely dangerous surgery in order to correct an irregular heartbeat. In order to correct this problem, we had to travel to Oklahoma City. We checked into a motel called the "Comfort Inn" My sister and I stayed in one room, and my grandparents stayed in the room right next to ours. My dad stayed at the hospital with my mom the entire time. When we got to the motel we quickly realized that we...

Priest clobbered 2nd outrage! Beaten as he helps woman The Rev. Francis Gargani gestures toward back, where he was hit by thug with table leg when he went to parishioner's aid. A gentle priest bravely confronted a raving ex-con on the steps of a South Bronx church, sacrificing his own safety to protect an elderly woman. The Rev. Francis Gargani's heroics left him beaten and bruised on the stone steps outside the Church of the Immaculate Conception. But his daring action gave the parishioner just enough time to elude the wild-eyed thug, who was threatening to pummel her with...

<p>A mugger yesterday fired two bullets into a defiant student who refused to turn over his cellphone, cops said. Even after Marcin Muchalski, 26, had been shot once, he grimly hung onto his phone and continued arguing with the gunman, who had accosted him as he bicycled over the Williamsburg Bridge.</p>

Graydon Carter’s War The Mind of a Great Editor Is a Terrible Thing To Waste By RUSS SMITH Mr. Smith writes weekly columns for New York Press and Baltimore’s City Paper. I wonder when Vanity Fair editor Graydon Carter is going to wake up from his increasingly public nightmare. Mr. Carter, a charming and intelligent man, has clearly not come to grips with the stark reality, as Spy magazine would’ve said 15 years ago, that the go-go 1990s are over and the gaudy colors that washed over that decade have given way to black and white. In fact, Mr. Carter’s...