(1) Arizona on Wednesday executed the oldest person on its death row, nearly 35 years after he was charged with murdering a Bisbee man during a robbery.
(2) According to the author's observations in a federal penitentiary, bank robbery more often is a symptomatic act with psychological meaning.
(3) He was indicted on weapons charges and accused of plotting robberies and the assassination of the Southern Poverty Law Center’s founder.
(4) In his memoirs, Reynolds recalls how, just before the Great Train Robbery took place, he had smoked a Montecristo No 2 cigar: "The thought ran through my mind: I have brought Cuba to Buckinghamshire."
(5) Reader was previously jailed for a total of nine years for conspiracy to handle stolen goods and dishonestly handling cash, after the £26m robbery at the Brink’s-Mat warehouse near Heathrow airport in 1983.
(6) Police chief Wolfgang Albers, 60, had been criticised for the handling of the violence, with a leaked police report describing this week how officers were initially overwhelmed by events outside the city’s train station, after which more than 100 women filed criminal complaints of sexual assault and robbery, including two accounts of rape.
(7) A suspect has been charged with murder and robbery in the case.
(8) Two people were arrested on Thursday night following an attempted smash-and-grab robbery at Selfridges department store in central London .
(9) The name, Sallah Ali, that he had given to police when he was arrested for robbery in the south of France 2013, might not be the correct name, he said.
(10) James Mason is an IRA man holed up in a safe house, who leaves his confinement to lead a bank robbery.
(11) Zschäpe was arrested in November 2011, after the bodies of Mundlos and Böhnhardt were found in a burnt out caravan in Eisenach, following a bank robbery that went badly wrong, after which the men apparently killed each other in a suicide pact.
(12) Car theft led to a third sentence, and it was during that time that he was to meet Bruce Reynolds , the mastermind of the Great Train Robbery.
(13) But despite the attention to detail with which the robbery was executed, fatal errors soon led the police to the doors of most of those who had participated.
(14) The plot revolved around the death of a mentally disturbed pizza delivery man who ends up killing himself in a robbery.
(15) It is the 50th anniversary of the Great Train Robbery, on Thursday.
(16) The two men believed to have founded the NSU with her, Uwe Mundlos and Uwe Böhnhardt, set their caravan on fire and killed themselves in 2011 after a bank robbery went wrong.
(17) In Thursday's robbery the thieves all fled the scene within minutes.
(18) Photograph: AP Abdeslam, who had had several brushes with the law and spent time in prison for armed robbery in 2010, came agonisingly close to arrest in the immediate aftermath of the attacks, but slipped through police hands.
(19) For female victims, homicides resulted from disputes in 62.2 per cent of cases, drug-related activities in 13.8 per cent, and robberies in 20.0 per cent of cases.
(20) The interim report found that out of a sample of 2,551 incidents that should have been recorded as crimes officers wrongly failed to record 523 of them including sexual offences, crimes of violence, robbery and burglary.
Scam
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) There is a perfectly illogical explanation for it; polio drops are meant to make us impotent and these programmes are run by the same people who managed to locate Osama bin Laden by running another scam vaccination campaign.
(2) Some scams appeal to veterans’ sense of loyalty and patriotism by employing affinity marketing – using military and US related paraphernalia.
(3) Today, Britain is broke and broken, everyone's on the scam and excessive right on-ism is forcing ordinary Britons into retreat.
(4) Lloyds Banking Group has apologised for the impact of the £245m loan scam at HBOS and pledged to examine whether any of the small businesses affected should receive compensation.
(5) The scam has left one of the world’s largest carmakers facing fines of $US18bn for breaching environmental standards in the United States, and numerous customer lawsuits.
(6) The latest scam, termed "Coalgate", involves the government allocation of coal and is estimated to have cost the country more than $50bn.
(7) Generals and other senior officers accused of running the scam have yet to be brought to account.
(8) Bank of England governor subject of $6.5m text scam Read more But the commissioner’s comments were met with an immediate backlash from consumer groups, victims’ rights groups and digital security experts.
(9) Facebook scams are also used to gain access into organisations – this is where the big money is and these targeted ‘watering-hole attacks’ appear to be on the rise,” says James Maude, senior security engineer at Avecto.
(10) The money came from a scam and he was jailed for fraud but his thirst for money remained unquenched.
(11) "This book is about how Bill has identified the 60 people involved in the scam and the murder of Magnitsky, and tried to shut down the rest of the world to them."
(12) But now the pensioner, whose first husband left her over her refusal to stop responding to the letters, has spoken of the impact this has had on her life in a bid to warn others who have become addicted to the scams.
(13) India has seen many scams before, but few have been as brazen and on such a scale as those that have come to light in recent weeks.
(14) "The organisers of this scam went to great lengths to provide a facade of legitimacy.
(15) A New York Magazine profile from April 1995 described Cinque as a “small-time mobster, a scam artist and an art fence” who “used to be friends with John Gotti” – the former boss of the Gambino crime family.
(16) Belgian prosecutors highlighted the massive losses faced by EU governments from VAT fraud today after they charged three Britons and a Dutchman with money-laundering following an investigation into a multimillion-pound scam involving carbon emissions permits.
(17) Being a good mother is not a scam perpetrated by the patriarchy on women at a vulnerable moment in their lives.
(18) What we seem to have here is a prime example of the anti-PC back-flip scam.
(19) The Central American nation was praised for its crackdown on corruption in September after former president Otto Pérez Molina was ordered to stand trial for corruption, illicit association and bribery linked to a multimillion-dollar customs scam.
(20) Cunningham, who was an MP for 22 years and served in Tony Blair's cabinet, said he had been testing his suspicions that he was being targeted by a scam.