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robbery

ro buh ree

  • n  larceny by threat of violence
  • n  plundering during riots or in wartime

  • But then, just over two months later, she was seen on camera assisting them in a bank robbery.
  • Hibernia Bank's automatic-camera photo of the robbery by members of the Symbionese Liberation Army.
  • Even as the authorities spent years trying to figure out who was behind the "great Brinks robbery," the 11 were falling out among themselves.
News & Articles

  • Robbery at Pasadena movie store ends with multiple arrests
    PASADENA, Texas – Surveillance cameras caught a terrifying robbery on camera. The Movie Exchange on Fairmont Parkway has been robbed multiple times in a short period of time. Police were staking out the movie store and arrested the robber and getaway driver.
    June 15, 2013 - KHOU 11 Houston
  • Robbery leads to crash on I-64
    Henrico Police are looking for two suspects tonight after a day time robbery at the West Broad Street Denny's. The suspects drove away, then crashed on Interstate 64. Investigators have one person of interest in custody.
    June 15, 2013 - NBC 12 Richmond
  • Bank robbery suspects linked to previous hold-up
    Robbery charges were filed Friday against a man who was shot during a failed bank heist in University City and a woman accused of being an accomplice.
    June 14, 2013 - Channel 8 San Diego
Quotes

  • Nicole Brown Simpson in ABC News
    There was no armed robbery here,Simpson said in a telephone interview. "It wasn't a robbery. They said `Take your stuff and go.'"
  • Cory Spinks in Forbes
    I don't know what to say. It was highway robbery,Spinks said. "I thought I gave a great boxing display. I feel great. I executed my game plan. I think I won."
  • Rod Liddle in The Guardian
    Last year the journalist Rod Liddle wrote a short blog in which he claimed that the "overwhelming majority of street crime, knife crime, gun crime, robbery and crimes of sexual violence in London is carried out by young men from the...

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