Thu, 12/09/2010 - 10:11 by Prince damin
Los Angeles -- Harold Martin Smith most likely killed celebrity publicist Ronni Chasen in a robbery gone bad, police in Beverly Hills, Calif., said Wednesday.
Chasen, 64, was gunned down Nov. 16 as she drove home after a party celebrating the Cher-Christina Aguilera movie "Burlesque." Smith fatally shot himself Dec. 1 as police attempted to serve a search warrant in the lobby of a Los Angeles apartment building.
The Hollywood Reporter quoted Beverly Hills Police Chief David Snowden as describing the investigation as "open and active" in a press conference Wednesday.
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Wed, 12/01/2010 - 06:10 by Prince damin
Deming, N.M. -- Police in New Mexico said a would-be robber was stopped by a female clerk armed with a loaf of bread and a box of pastries.
Deming police said a masked man who did not display a weapon tried to run off after snatching the cash register from the Amigo's store at about 3 p.m. Wednesday and soon found himself on the receiving end of a thrown loaf of bread and a box of empanada, The Deming Headlight reported Tuesday.
The robber dropped the register and fled in a gray or primer-colored car with several other people, police said.
Amigo's owner Arnold Orquiz said the clerk initially tried to refuse his reward offer, but he had to insist.
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Tue, 11/16/2010 - 01:51 by Prince damin
Manchester, N.H. -- Police in New Hampshire said a robbery suspect's vanity plate, which bears her first initial and last name, led to her arrest.
Investigators said Bonnie Usher, 43, wore a hooded sweatshirt and a ski mask when she entered the Rite Aid pharmacy Friday morning in Manchester and approached a worker, WMUR-TV, Manchester, reported Monday.
"A woman approached her with a hood and a mask, put a metal object to her head and said it was a robbery," Lt. Nick Willard said. "The (employee) thought it was a gun. The clerk complied."
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Fri, 11/12/2010 - 09:42 by Prince damin
Alameda, Calif. -- Police in California said they reunited an 80-year-old woman with her dog, which was stolen from her during a robbery while she was walking the canine.
Alameda police said a Stockton woman saw an image of the 6-year-old Yorkshire terrier on the news Wednesday and recognized it as the canine she had purchased from a man and a woman for $20, the San Francisco Chronicle reported Thursday.
The woman took the dog, Deuce, to police, who verified the animal's identity and returned him to owner Helen Bignone.
Investigators said the man and woman who sold the dog did not appear to know it was stolen during an Oct. 30 robbery perpetrated by two male suspects.
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Sat, 10/30/2010 - 01:58 by Prince damin
Kissimmee, Fla. -- A Florida prisoner who took time off from his work release to drink beer with friends is being charged with escape.
Department of Corrections spokeswoman Gretl Plessinger said Jimmy Davis, 29, will "definitely be pulled in from the work camp" in addition to facing an escape charge after he left his job at Stelly's Lawn Care in Kissimmee Saturday and did not return to the work release center by dark and called guards after 11 p.m. to say he was returning to the dormitory, the Orlando Sentinel reported Friday.
Davis, who is serving a five-year sentence for armed robbery, told guards he had been out drinking beers with friends.
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Thu, 10/28/2010 - 07:15 by Prince damin
Deland, Fla. -- Florida police said a teen who attempted to use a bottle of salad dressing as a weapon during a robbery was foiled when a clerk pulled a real weapon -- a gun.
DeLand police said the 16-year-old, whose name was not released, indicated he was armed when he robbed the DeLand Citro Gas Station Friday of $468 and he attempted a second robbery 2 1/2 hours later, The (Deland) West Volusia Beacon reported Wednesday.
Investigators said the teenager entered the Friendly Way store, took a bottle of salad dressing from a shelf and waved it at the clerk as if to use it as a weapon while demanding money.
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Wed, 10/27/2010 - 23:07 by Natalie James
Jeffrey Landrigan, a former Oklahoma man convicted of murdering a Phoenix man in a robbery two decades ago, has been executed in Arizona Tuesday night Oct. 26, 2010.
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Tue, 10/26/2010 - 15:05 by Anter Prakash Singh
Jennifer Mee and three others have been a man named Shannon Griffin who she met on internet and lured him to a house where he was fataly shot.
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Sat, 10/09/2010 - 00:58 by Prince damin
Boynton Beach, Fla. -- Police in Florida said a 25-year-old man told them he falsified an armed robbery to avoid repaying a $400 loan from his mother.
Boynton Beach Police said Leon Murray told officers he was robbed of $400 cash, a bank card and a .45-caliber Taurus handgun Sept. 20, but he later admitted during questioning that he invented the story because of the debt, the South Florida Sun-Sentinel reported Friday.
Investigators said the handgun Murray reported stolen had been pawned several months earlier.
Murray was charged with one count of making a false report to law enforcement and arrested on an unrelated misdemeanor warrant, police said.
Copyright 2010 United Press International, Inc. (UPI).
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Thu, 10/07/2010 - 10:03 by Rakhi
New York -- Celebrity couple Lisa Rinna and Harry Hamlin were on the "Today" show in New York when they learned their California clothing boutique was robbed.
The pair were promoting their new reality show "Harry Loves Lisa," as well as Rinna's novel, "Starlit," and Hamlin's autobiography, "Full Frontal Nudity," on the morning chat show Tuesday when they got the bad news.
The New York Post reported they learned via cellphone while on "Today" that thieves had broken into their Belle Grey boutique in Sherman Oaks, and made off with about $10,000 in designer clothing.
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Tue, 07/13/2010 - 00:25 by Pankaj Damin
San Diego -- San Diego police said an attempted robber fled the crime scene when a convenience store clerk pretended she couldn't speak English.
Investigators said the suspect, who was not described in detail by police, walked into a 7-Eleven store in the Webster neighborhood about 4:30 p.m. Sunday and pointed a gun at the clerk, the San Diego Union-Tribune reported Monday.
Police said the clerk pretended she could not understand English and the intruder, frustrated, fled with no money in a late-model green Ford sedan.
Copyright 2010 United Press International, Inc. (UPI).
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Mon, 07/12/2010 - 09:51 by Rakhi
Daytona Beach, Fla. -- A robbery target had her escape fall in her lap -- literally -- when a clumsy robber dropped his gun in her lap and she turned it on him, Florida police said.
Carol Costello, 69, was leaving a Daytona Beach Wal-Mart when a car blocked her way and a passenger with a gun jumped onto the hood of her car, The Orlando Sentinel reported Saturday.
The potential robber smashed a large hole in the windshield of Costello's car with the gun, which fell from his hand and landed in Costello's lap, the newspaper said.
She pointed it at the assailant, who fled back to his car.
As the alleged robbers' car drove away, Costello was able to write down its license plate number.
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