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Monty Python in Real Life

By Roland Sweet
POSTED // Jun 3,2009 - Two car-theft suspects fleeing police on foot in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., ran into an office building, ducked inside a women's restroom, crouched on toilets in the stalls and tried to convince officers they were women...

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Stimulus Package

By Roland Sweet
POSTED // May 27,2009 - Police arrested Remo Spencer for stealing laptop computers and iPods from the Wal-Mart store in Great Falls, Mont., where he worked after he aroused a store manager's suspicions by posting an ad offering to sell the electronics...

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Flu Fever

By Roland Sweet
POSTED // May 20,2009 - New York City police looking for a man who tried to rob a bank but left with no cash spotted a man fitting the suspect's description waiting in line at another bank. Just as the man was hanging the teller a hold-up note...

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Flu Fever

By Roland Sweet
POSTED // May 13,2009 - Oklahoma state police arrested David Louis Siany, 51, for bank robbery after a criminal justice student at the University of Central Oklahoma identified him from a surveillance photo on a news Website ...

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Heaven Can Wait

By Roland Sweet
POSTED // May 6,2009 - David Maksimik, 59, successfully robbed a bank in Darien, Conn., but while making his getaway, he rear-ended a car. He abandoned his car and caught a bus, then a taxi and finally a ride from his sister to get home to Stamford, where he found his 53-year-old roommate dead.

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Germ-Free Drinking

By Roland Sweet
POSTED // Apr 29,2009 - A clerk at a variety store in Biddeford, Maine, told police a robber threatened to "blow her head off," took several hundred dollars and then crossed the road to a pizza restaurant.

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Homeland Insecurity

By Roland Sweet
POSTED // Apr 22,2009 - Curses, Foiled AgainWhen Derek Shaun Clark, 26, kicked in the back door of a home in Evansville, Ind., entered with a drawn handgun and announced he was the police, homeowner Derrick Murray was skepti

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Whacking Day—Without Barry White

By Roland Sweet
POSTED // Apr 15,2009 - Elias Efremidis, 52, lived in Front Royal, Va., without incident for 21 years until he was arrested for shining a laser pointer at police.

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Geek of the Week

By Roland Sweet
POSTED // Apr 8,2009 - Curses, Foiled Again A robber who entered a business in Fox Point, Wis., was rummaging through an office closet when owner David Kang, a Tae Kwon Do master who was giving a private lesson at his martial-arts studio...

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Plush Tush

By Roland Sweet
POSTED // Apr 1,2009 - Curses, Foiled Again: After authorities investigating a store robbery in Chula Vista, Calif., identified Romeo Montillano, 40, as their suspect, they learned he was in Las Vegas, unaware he was wanted.
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