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AURORA, Colo. – Police have a “person of interest” in custody in connection with the robbery of the Wells Fargo back at 15301 E. Hampden Avenue Saturday afternoon. Immediately following the robbery, police closed the intersection of Iliff and Buckley after reports the suspect might have taken hostages. According to our crew on the scene, police stopped and searched nearly two dozen cars. The adult occupants of the vehicles were handcuffed during the investigation.

Male Suspect Wearing Muslim Garb Robs Philadelphia Bank PHILADELPHIA (CBS) – Philadelphia police are searching for a male suspect who robbed a bank while fully clothed in Muslim garb. The robbery happened at about 11 a.m. on April 13th at the Wells Fargo Bank branch located in the 700 block of Adams Avenue. According to investigators, the suspect, wearing Muslim garb, entered the bank and presented a threatening demand note to a teller. After getting an undisclosed amount of cash, the suspect ran out of the bank and fled north on Tabor Road. The suspect is described as a black...

Kabul, Afghanistan (CNN) -- Two men charged with murder for a February bank attack that killed 38 people were executed Monday morning in Kabul, a spokesman for Afghanistan's intelligence agency said. Lutfullah Mashal, spokesman for the National Directorate of Security, identified one of the men as Zar Ajam of Pakistan. He identified the other man as "Matiullah, whose real name was Mahmood," a resident of eastern Afghanistan. A third person involved in the attack has been sentenced to 20 years in prison, Mashal said.

Two men from Tarrant County who were suspects in an Oklahoma bank robbery were killed Thursday in a shootout at a roadblock on a southeast Oklahoma highway, authorities reported Friday. A woman from Euless was with the men as they tried to run through the roadblock about five miles west of Antlers, according to the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation. The roadblock was set up after the First Bank and Trust in Wright City was robbed about 12:30 p.m. Thursday. Jeremy Dysart, 35, of North Richland Hills was pronounced dead at the scene, the agency said. Justin Whisenhunt, 31, of...

This is great - and one of the reasons I am proud to be an American. What a great soldier.

Alleged Bank Robber Takes Hostage - Shot By Police After Slipping And Falling On Ice Updated: Friday, 28 Jan 2011, 10:18 AM EST Published : Friday, 28 Jan 2011, 9:53 AM EST by MYFOXDC TAKOMA PARK, Md. - Dramatic video shows an alleged bank robber being taken down by police after slipping and falling on ice. WARNING – GRAPHIC VIDEO The incident happened at the Capital One Bank in Takoma Park, Md. around 9:00 a.m. on Friday. Police had the bank surrounded when the alleged robber came out of the front door with what looked like a gun to the...

MOSCOW (AP) — Russian investigators say that robbers carrying assault rifles in a baby carriage fatally shot two guards and a man walking his dog and got away with more than $800,000 worth of cash in St.Petersburg.

RICHMOND, VA—Eric Thompson, a/k/a Derick Cannon, 41, of Richmond, Virginia, was sentenced to 1,097 months’ imprisonment today in U.S. District Court for committing four armed robberies of commercial businesses located in the Richmond, Virginia area. He was also ordered to pay $1,359.37 in restitution. Neil H. MacBride, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia, made the announcement after the defendant was sentenced by United States District Judge Liam O’Grady. According to the evidence presented at trial, Thompson committed four armed robberies of Family Dollar Store locations in Richmond, Virginia: * 3/9/2010 - Thompson robbed the Family Dollar store...

A California man accused of robbing banks and assembling what may be the largest cache of homemade explosives ever found in the U.S. was ordered held on $5 million bail Monday.

A bank robbery suspect was shot today in Everett after he lunged at an officer with a knife while fleeing the crime scene, a city official said.

The FBI Houston Bank Robbery Task Force is seeking to identify the man who robbed the Prosperity Bank at 8820 Westheimer in Houston yesterday afternoon. Tellers and customers alike must have known something was up when this master of disguise walked into the bank wearing a towel over his head, a baseball cap on top of the towel, and big dark sunglasses. At approximately 1:20 p.m., he approached the teller counter and produced a note demanding money. The teller complied with his demand and handed over the cash. Witnesses reported that the robber fled the bank on foot, and was...

SILVER SPRING, Md. — Montgomery County police said a man wearing a burqa robbed a bank in Silver Spring. Police said the man who robbed a TD Bank branch on Briggs Chaney Road about 4:20 p.m. Tuesday was wearing a "long black burqa over his face." He also wore jeans and tan boots. Authorities said the man showed a gun and demanded money. He took an undetermined amount of money and fled.

SNIPPET: "2. According to a criminal complaint filed in the Southern District of California, Naushad, together with co-defendants Tamim Abdul-Samad AKA Brandon Harris, and Darryl Eugene Peterson AKA Najm, robbed a CitiBank branch in La Mesa, California, on 19 April, 2010."

Here is video of a California man wrestling an armed robber to the ground in a bank there. Richard Camp was in the bank when the robber came in. He was initially thrown to the ground by the thief, who was armed with two guns and a knife. Camp later tackled the man and wrestled him to the ground where he held him under control, with the help of another man, until the bank security guard could be summoned from outside the bank where he was talking with someone. Camp was shot in the leg as he wrestled with the...

LONG BEACH, Calif. (CBS) A vehicle allegedly used by suspects in a Laguna Hills bank robbery Thursday was the subject of a freeway pursuit to Long Beach, where an officer-involved shooting occurred, authorities said. The chase began about 10:30 a.m. on the northbound 405 in Orange County, and went to the juncture of the San Gabriel River (605) Freeway, where the shooting happened, said California Highway Patrol Officer Gabe Montoya. It was not immediately clear if any suspects were injured, Montoya said. No officers were hurt, he said. After the shooting, the vehicle apparently continued northbound, possibly exiting around Woodruff...

DALLAS—The last sentencing in the “Scarecrow Bandit” case was held today when U.S. District Judge Jane J. Boyle sentenced one of the group’s leaders, Tony R. Hewitt, 43, a.k.a. “Priceless T,” to serve 355 years in federal prison, announced U.S. Attorney James T. Jacks of the Northern District of Texas. The Scarecrow Bandits committed a series of violent “takeover” style bank robberies in the Dallas area between January and June 2008. The group’s other leader, Corey Deyon Duffey, a.k.a. “Kenyo,” a.k.a. “Calvin Brown,” 29, was sentenced in January 2010 to 354 years in prison. Charles Runnels, a.k.a. “Junior,” 43, was...

Robert E. Casey Jr., Special Agent In Charge, Dallas, FBI, announced that a reward is being offered for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the person known as the “Reckless Robber,” who is responsible for the May 5, 2010, robbery of the Wells Fargo Bank located at 13297 Josey Lane, Farmers Branch, Texas. Wells Fargo Bank announced they were increasing the reward for the Reckless Robber to $ 20,000 for information leading to his the arrest and conviction. The Reckless Robber began his streak of bank robberies on October 8, 2008 at a Compass Bank in Houston, Texas....

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...

Two women are dead following a fatal crash when Albuquerque police pursued a suspected bank robber late Tuesday morning. According to police, officers spotted the suspect’s vehicle leaving the bank at Louisiana and Candelaria and followed it without initially initiating pursuit. They later did pursue the car along Interstate 40 to the city’s West Side where the suspect, identified as 31-year-old Jeremiah Jackson of Albuquerque, eventually ran head-on into an oncoming car while he was driving the wrong way on Ouray near Coors. Two women in the car, Kimberly Aragon-Nunez, 34, and Janice Flores, 28, both from Albuquerque, died from...

Burglars tunnelled into a Parisian bank vault and raided around 100 safety deposit boxes rented by private customers before making good their escape, investigators have said. Police said identifying and putting a value on what was missing would be a long and difficult task, and that the gang appeared to have been equipped with sophisticated tools for what was otherwise a very traditional robbery. They bust into the Credit Lyonnais (LCL) branch on Avenue de l'Opera, between the Louvre and the old Opera house in the heart of tourist Paris, late Saturday night local time by passing through ventilation pipes...