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A masked man blasted a passing vehicle on Interstate 95 with a shotgun early Sunday, then robbed the occupants when they stopped to check on the damage, according to the Robeson County Sheriff's Office. The gunman fired birdshot at a southbound 2007 Dodge Nitro driven by 23-year-old Angela Greene of Conway, S.C., striking the vehicle in the side about 5:45 a.m. Sunday, said sheriff's Maj. Howard Branch. No one was injured, he said. "We think he was in the woods right there in that area," Branch said. "Just a random vehicle shot at." Passenger Maggie Hennigan, 48, said the four...

Late last night, a white truck with flashing blue lights pulled over two vehicles on the Katy Freeway at the Grand Parkway in west Harris County. At least two men got out of the truck wearing what appeared to be police uniforms. They also had guns. They robbed the victims of one of their cars and also took cash, cell phones and other belongings.

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MZ has learned ... the man who allegedly attempted to break into Paris Hilton's L.A. home this week was thwarted by Hilton's boyfriend ... who pulled a gun on the suspect before the dude could get inside. Law enforcement sources confirm ... Hilton's BF -- Vegas nightclub kingpin Cy Waits -- told police that he and Paris heard loud banging noises coming from downstairs around 6:30 AM Tuesday ... so he grabbed his gun and went to check out the situation. We're told Cy claims he spotted Nathan Parada peering through a window and carrying two knives -- a large...

A man dubbed by the FBI as the Robin Hood Bandit has been indicted on charges related to seven armed robberies in Columbus. A federal grand jury returned a 15-count indictment late Thursday charging Myron Jerome Green, 49, of Columbus with robbing four banks, a department store, a restaurant and a pharmacy. The robber got his nickname because he handed a mother and daughter each a $100 bill after holding up a Short North bank on May 3. According to the indictment, Green was the man who robbed the Huntington National Bank, 662 N. High St., that day. The women...

A South Bend, Indiana store owner reportedly shot an armed and violent robber in self defense. Police say that a robber, who was armed with a carpet knife, entered the Its a Man's World vintage clothing store on the 3000 block of Mishawaka Ave, just before closing time. The robber reportedly picked up a few items as though he was shopping, then proceeded to the cash register, where he demanded the store owner hand over all of his money. A struggle ensued, with the store owner suffering minor cuts to his chest, arm, and hand, at which point the store...

PALM BAY, Fla. -- A local bank customer was hailed as a hero Thursday night for taking down a man who said he was down on his luck and he decided to commit a robbery. Floyd Francis gave up instantly, police said, and he was taken to the Brevard County Jail. "I drew my gun on him and put him down," Ruben Torres said. In a hand-written confession, Francis said he tried to rob the Space Coast Credit Union in Palm Bay because he needed money. He wrote, "I make music for a living, but tings not working out right...

Chong Vang and her husband Chao Lor were on their way home after leaving a Laundromat at 41st and Lyndale Avenue North in Minneapolis early Monday evening when they were confronted by two robbers, one armed with a gun. "The one that came first came to my side of the door and the other pointed a gun at my husband," Vang said. The man with the gun took Vang's husband into an alley nearby. "When the guy pointed a gun at me all I had on my mind was just like take anything you want. Don't do anything to me...

(WSB Radio) -- This could be the break terrified Tech-area residents have been looking for: the arrest of three young men police say tried to rob a pedestrian at gunpoint. The suspects are identified as Justin Johnson, and Xavier Mosteller, both 21; and 19-year old Dandre Barnwell. Atlanta Police Sergeant Reginald Moorman says the suspects were armed and very dangerous. "It looks like they were prepared for anything," says Atlanta Police Sgt. Reginald Moorman. The three suspects were arrested early Sunday near the Tech campus. When they were pulled over, Moorman says they had in their car, "a fully-loaded AK-47...

COLUMBIA, SC—United States Attorney W. Walter Wilkins stated that Eric Robinson, age 19 and Joshua Stokes, age 23, both of North Charleston, were sentenced today in federal court for armed bank robbery and firearms charges. Chief United States District Judge David C. Norton of Charleston. sentenced Stokes to 97 months in federal prison, and Robinson to a term of 106 months. On September 16, 2008, at 3:20 p.m., Robinson and Stokes ran into the South Carolina Federal Credit Union at 82 Bridgetown Road in Goose Creek, wearing black ski masks and white gloves. Stokes brandished a silver revolver, while Robinson...

(WSB Radio) Despite an increased police presence, armed robbers have struck again near the Georgia Tech campus.This time it was at the Centennial Place Apartments, at Honeycutt and Lovejoy.  And this time the victim lost his college bookbag containing his laptop.Eric Mills was walking home early Wednesday morning when he noticed an SUV that made him suspicious."I continued walking and i'm on my cellphone, talking," Mills says.  "All of a sudden, I felt a presence behind me."Mills says he turned around and saw two men approaching him in "an aggressive manner."Both were dressed in black.  One of the two...

SNIPPET: "Police were nearby and took one suspect into custody while another was arrested after a getaway car was followed to a nearby trailer park."

After a suspected robber shot his co-worker on Wednesday, a Belmont Beverage liquor store clerk didn’t wait to see if he’d be next. The clerk fatally shot the suspected robber – whom Fort Wayne Police have identified as Donald N. Jones – in self-defense, according to Gary Gardner, Belmont operations manager. Gardner said Thursday that store surveillance video shows Jones enter the store, walk around the counter and shoot a clerk in the leg before robbing two cash registers. “That’s what was so stunning to us,” said Gardner. “(Usually) all they want is the money and they leave, but not...

Indianapolis - One man is dead following a shooting at a grocery store on the northwest side Sunday evening. Metro Police say an armed suspect attempted to rob the El Michoacano supermarket in the 6200 block of West 34th Street just before 9 pm. All of the customers and employees in the store were ordered to move to one side of the store. Police say the suspect then pointed his gun at a woman and baby, leading a store employee to pull his own gun. "At this point, the employee fired a shot at the suspect or shots, we are...

BATON ROUGE, Louisiana (AP) - Two Indian doctoral students were found shot dead in an apparent home invasion in a Louisiana university campus apartment, and police Friday were searching for three suspects in the killings. The victims, Chandrasekhar Reddy Komma and Kiran Kumar Allam, were found inside an apartment at the Edward Gay complex on the campus of Louisiana State University late Thursday night after authorities received a call from Allam's pregnant wife requesting urgent medical aid. Both men had been shot once in the head, said Charles Zewe, an LSU spokesman. The three men seen leaving the area were...

ASHLAND, Ky. - A man wearing a ski mask held up an eastern Kentucky ice cream store with a stapler, and briefly got away with $175. Police identified the stapler bandit as Gerald A. Rocchi, 32, who was arrested shortly after he allegedly flashed a chrome-plated stapler at an employee of The Ice Cream Shop in Ashland on Tuesday and demanded money. Ashland Police Capt. Don Petrella said he didn't know if Rocchi planned to shoot staples at the shop's employees or use it as a blunt instrument if he didn't get the cash. It didn't come to that because...

NEW YORK -- Family and friends gathered Sunday at a funeral home in the Bronx to remember Eric Rosado, the 14-year-old shot and killed while robbing a South Miami-Dade grocery store last week. Many wondered why the teen, who moved to South Florida in 2005 and returned home to be buried, had suddenly gone astray. Rosado, a freshman at Cooper City High School, died when a store manager who was being robbed pulled out a gun and shot him. Police said the teenager's two accomplices in the attempted holdup of the Diaz Grocery Store in Naranja on Tuesday -- and...

Two University of Minnesota students lost wallets, cash and cell phones, but otherwise were unhurt when they were robbed at gunpoint on campus Wednesday night, police said. The students were outside University Village at 2601 University Av. SE. when two men approached them at 11:45 p.m. The robbers fired one gun shot as they fled the scene in a light colored, possibly a silver or gold, sedan, said Lt. Chuck Miner. The victims described the suspects as East African or Somali men. One was a thin build, wearing a dark blue or black sweat shirt, dark jeans and a Minnesota...

Two men traveling south on Interstate 85 southwest of Lexington Tuesday told Davidson County sheriff's deputies that the $88,000 in cash they had hidden in their car was to buy a house in Atlanta. Officers with the sheriff office's Interstate Criminal Enforcement unit didn't believe the story after a drug-sniffing dog found a strong odor of narcotics inside the car. No drugs were found, and the two men weren't charged with a crime, but officers did keep the money, citing a federal drug assets seizure and forfeiture law. Deputies first stopped the car for following too closely to another vehicle,...