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A trio lashed a 13-year-old boy with belts before ripping off his sneakers in a vicious Brooklyn mugging last week, cops said. The group – two men and a woman – approached the youngster around 3:15 p.m. Friday at 17th Street and Fourth Avenue in South Slope and struck him with belts multiple times before pulling his kicks straight off his feet, police said. The trio then fled into the nearby Prospect Avenue train station, where they hopped on a Manhattan-bound R train, authorities said.

Police said a preliminary investigation shows the two victims were walking when they were approached by two males wearing hooded shirts; one of the men brandished a handgun. The suspects took personal property from the victims and fled the area, heading Northbound on Gulf Street toward New Haven Avenue. A police K9 team conducted a search of the area which terminated in the area of Bedford Street, police said. No one was injured during the incident. The victims told police the robbers were wearing dark jeans and dark, zipped up hooded jackets.

DALLAS - "This camera is everything to me," said photographer Stephen Masker. And it almost cost him his life. Masker told Dallas police a group of three or four men riding in a van pulled up while he was shooting pictures of Uptown Station. At gun point, the men demanded his camera -- the one thing he was unwilling to give. "I said, 'What? Like, what are you talking about?'" Masker recalled. "He repeated himself and said, 'Give me your camera.' I said, 'I'm not giving you my camera.'"

KARACHI -Two unidentified robbers were caught, badly thrashed and then torched to death by angry residents late on Tuesday night in the low income area of Buffer Zone. According to eyewitnesses, two armed men on a motorbike mugged one Mohammed Riaz and were fleeing when they were caught by dozens of residents of the locality. First the enraged people beat up the two robbers severely and later set them on fire. A police party was rushed to the scene who shifted the two men to a nearby hospital where they were pronounced dead due to multiple injuries and burns to...

Vicars told not to wear dog collars in public as it makes them a target for muggersBy CHRIS BROOKE - More by this author » Last updated at 15:25pm on 7th October 2007  Warning: Vicars advised not to wear their dog collars in public because they are more likely to be attacked   Vicars are being advised to take off their dog collars when they go out while off duty to reduce the risk of being attacked by yobs. New advice states that even the Archbishop of Canterbury should remove his dog collar outside church. Priests should also seek...

'Sadistic' torture muggers face deportation By Matthew Moore Last Updated: 6:58pm GMT 13/11/2006 Three armed robbers who kidnapped and tortured their victims with "sadistic and gratuitous" violence have been jailed for life. Sofian Majera, Robert Lincoln and Peter Frota (left-right) Described by police as one of the most brutal gangs to operate in London in recent years, they toured the streets with knives, guns and baseball bats, beating their victims senseless as if they were "characters in a video game". Judge Witold Pawlak, sentencing, said that all three were "addicted to violence", and recommended that they be deported. "Your continued...

ROME — If you get mugged in Naples, don't fight back. An American tourist was beaten by an angry mob in the streets of the southern Italian city after he chased down two men who had just stolen his camera, police said Wednesday. [snip] The American chased the thieves into a narrow alley when a group of local residents attacked him with punches and kicks, allowing the muggers to escape, Naples police said in a statement. [snip]

Thugs pick wrong target - a karate instructor 07.09.2004 12.00 pm A karate instructor's trip to Fiji was about to get ugly, but not for him. Unfortunately for the six attackers, they had picked on the wrong guy -- a fourth dan blackbelt in karate. Craig Nordstrand, 47, had just beaten off four of the attackers. The other two had unsuccessfully had a go at his mate Peter Roche. After taking an initial beating, the six backed off and surrounded the pair. Nordstrand tried to give his attackers a warning. "Do you want karate?" he asked. One of the robbers...

Pistol-packing Senior Chases Off Mugger, Gets Charged for Unlicensed Gun By Marcus Solis (Bronx-WABC, November 5, 2003) — A mugger in the Bronx got quite a surprise when the 80-year-old man he attacked in an elevator pulled out a .38 caliber handgun. There was a struggle, a shot was fired, and now the elderly victim is being criminally charged. Marcus Solis is in the Mott Haven section of the Bronx where he talked with the man. Lester Campbell says the gun belonged to his mother, and that it was passed onto him when she died. And he said he would...