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Robbery

  • Blogs

    May 9, 2012

    "Rape Cop" Michael Pena's Not The Only Former NYPD Officer Headed To Prison

    Former NYPD officer Michael "Rape Cop" Pena's not the only former cop headed to the hoosegow -- former NYPD officer Emmanuel Tavarez is the second former cop this week who's about to make the jump from officer to inmate. Unlike Pena, Tavarez, 33, didn't violently sexually assault a defenseless schoo ... More >>

  • News

    March 14, 2012

    NYPD's Reporting Problem

    Reactions to our 'NYPD Tapes' confirmation came like a swift billy club to the skull

  • Blogs

    March 14, 2012

    Food Carts in Queens Targeted by Armed Robber

    A string of nine armed robberies in Queens, mostly along Junction and Queens boulevards, has the New York City Police Department keeping a careful eye on food carts along major thoroughfares in the borough -- the target of eight of those stick-ups (the ninth victim was a livery cab driver). Most of ... More >>

  • News

    March 7, 2012

    The NYPD Tapes Confirmed

    The report police hid for nearly two years that corroborates a Voice investigation — and vindicates a whistle-blower the NYPD tried to destroy

  • Blogs

    February 21, 2012

    NYPD Numbers Show Sharp Increases in Crime So Far This Year

    That jump in the citywide crime rate has continued through the sixth week of the year, up over 5 percent so far, with thefts and robbery accounting for the increase. Robberies, burglaries and grand larceny are all up 10 percent citywide. Crime is up through Feb. 12 by double digits in three of the ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 1, 2012

    "Catwoman" Burglar Sentenced to Ten Years in Prison

    Shana Spalding, the woman behind the infamous "catwoman burglary" of 2010, will be heading to prison for the next decade. The 29-year-old, who moonlighted as the lead singer of a death metal band called Divine Infamy before her crime spree landed her in jail, raged at prosecutors and reporters after ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 20, 2012

    Robbery Roundup: Perps on the Loose in Queens and East Village

    Cops want to find the two scumbags who roughed up two Queens residents in several recent robberies. On Jan. 12, one of the suspected perps (pictured here) followed a 58-year-old man into an elevator at 71-57 161st Street. Cops say he whacked the victim on the head and stole his money.

  • Blogs

    January 11, 2012

    Armed Bronx Jacket Thief on the Loose

    A man was robbed at gunpoint for his orange Marmot jacket in the Bronx recently, cops say. The sartorially minded scumbag (pictured here) approached a man on the corner of Hunts Point Avenue and Bruckner Boulevard on Dec. 14, pulled out a gun, took the victim's coat and nothing else, and then fled ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 6, 2012

    Bank Robberies Have Almost Doubled in the Last Year in New York City

    ​While the general message from the Bloomberg administration has been that crime is down, that people are healthier, that everything is groovy, the New York Times City Room blog reports on a crime increase in one area: Bank robberies in New York City nearly doubled from 2010, when there were 2 ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 28, 2011

    NYPD, FDNY Year-End Numbers Show Overall Good News, Some Trouble Spots

    A bit of good news as the passing of 2011 nears: homicides were down five percent for the year, the overall crime rate was flat, and fires killed just 64 people, the second lowest number of fire fatalities since 1916, the mayor's office says. But the neighborhood crime numbers reveal several trouble ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 27, 2011

    Latex-Gloved Man Robs Financial District Bank

    DCPI​A man robbed a bank on Gold Street in the Financial District on Monday, making a symbolic and probably unwitting stand against the big banks' greed and selfishness but also leaving with a bag of cold hard cash. At around 9 a.m., the suspect went inside the Sovereign Bank on Gold Street, p ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 14, 2011

    Infamous 'Bouquet Bandit' Gets Up to 12 Years in Prison

    ​Remember the gimmicky Bouquet Bandit from last summer? He was the gentleman robber who robbed a couple banks using only a bouquet of flowers. (We tried to nickname him the "Horti-Robber," but it didn't work.) The bandit, whose real name is Edward Pemberton, managed to pull off two bank robber ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 9, 2011

    Fast Food Robber On the Loose in Brooklyn

    ​The police are seeking the public's assistance in finding a suspect in a string of commercial robberies around Bedford-Stuyvesant. The suspect held up a McDonald's, a Jamaican restaurant, a Golden Crust, a drug store, and a Burger King between August 3rd and 6th. In most of the robberies he would ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 14, 2011

    Suspect in Serial Subway Robberies Busted

    ​The police are seeking the public's assistance in finding a suspect in a string of commercial robberies around Bedford-Stuyvesant. The suspect held up a McDonald's, a Jamaican restaurant, a Golden Crust, a drug store, and a Burger King between August 3rd and 6th. In most of the robberies he would ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 11, 2011

    The Bank Robbery That Would Become 'Dog Day Afternoon'

    ​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archives. August 31, 1972, Vol. XVII, No. 35 Littlejohn & the mob: Saga of a heist By Arthur Bell Tuesday, August 22. Home about 10 p.m. A message from a friend on my cassette phone unit. "Just heard a couple of homosexuals are holding up a bank ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 8, 2011

    Here Is the Most Heartbreaking Convenience Store Robbery Ever

    Why is it that a kind and respectful robbery is so conflicting emotionally? Really, there's no one to hate in this situation except the situation itself. The suspect, being touted across the Internet as the most polite robber ever, was identified and arrested after the video went viral due to the su ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 3, 2011

    Gun-Toting Robbers Attack in Parkchester

    Cops are looking for three thugs who robbed at gunpoint and assaulted a man who let them into a Bronx building at 1580 Metropolitan Avenue about about 7:30 Sunday evening, January 30. Video released by the NYPD indicates that the 34-year-old victim, by the way he so freely opened the front door of ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 14, 2011

    Violent Robbers in the Bronx — New Ones

    Cops are asking for help in finding the jerks responsible for a couple of violent robberies this week in the Bronx, one in the north and the other in Morrisania. On Monday, at about 5:50 p.m., a 74-year-old man was hit from behind by a scumbag at the corner of Park Avenue and Gouverneur Place in ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 14, 2011

    Two Guys With a Shotgun Walk Into a Bronx Bodega . . .

    Bronx cops are looking for a couple of heavyset, ski-mask-wearing, blue-jeans-drooping, tan-work-boot-clad thugs who robbed a bodega at 1888 Walton Avenue on January 7. They came into the store at about 10:25 p.m., showed everybody a shotgun to prove how tough they were, and ordered employees and ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 5, 2011

    Christmas Eve Robbers Still Sought

    The NYPD asks the public for help in solving a Christmas Eve robbery at Today's Mobile, Fifth Avenue and 28th Street. At about 6 p.m. that day, three people described as black males entered the store. One tried to distract the store employee while the two others tried to grab merchandise. One of ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 5, 2011

    Armed Robbers Terrorize Brooklyn Supermarkets — and a Chicken Joint

    Robbery crew doing their stupid thing in Brooklyn A three-man crew of armed robbers is still on the loose in and around Brownsville in Brooklyn after sticking up three supermarkets and a chicken joint last month. Call them armed, dangerous and hungry. And call the cops if you know anything. Her ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 27, 2010

    Is the East Village Facing a Return to the Bad Old Days of Crime?

    ​In today's East Village street crime round-up: A string of wanton mayhem and violence over the past two days, including a drug-related shooting that left three injured, a stabbing that left one dead, and a cell phone robbery that left one perp in tears. The '70s are back, baby. Well, not exac ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 8, 2010

    Wannabe Scream Robber Did Not Account for Possibility of Water

    via New York Post​It's not enough just to be a robber these days. After all, there's that Darth Vader bank robber to look up to, and the geezer bank robbers and bouquet bandits to emulate. You need a shtick. Which a recent wannabe criminal had -- complete with a Scream mask and a (possibly fak ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 18, 2010

    Bouquet Bandit Explains Himself

    ​Edward Pemberton, the gentlemanly criminal who robbed two banks successfully using only flowers and a potted plant, has spoken. He told police that using flora to rob banks is "where the money is." Pemberton has been in jail since July 21 and (bizarrely, given that he admitted to the crimes) ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 12, 2010

    Murders Up 17 Percent, NYPD Crime Stats Show

    ​Periodically, we here at Runnin Scared take a look at the city's crime statistics. Well, almost three quarters of the way through the year, crime citywide is at about the same level as it was this time last year. But murders are up 17 percent. And, in all, six of the seven major crime categor ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 26, 2010

    Tranny Clown Unsuccessful in Attempt to Rob Bank

    ​Okay, this is getting out of hand, people. Hot on the shitkickers of Long Island's Darth Vader robber, we have a man in Pittsburgh who robbed a bank wearing a blonde lady's wig and fake boobs. And, um, "clown pants." He used a toy BB gun he had shoplifted from a store to hold up the bank. Als ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 21, 2010

    Bouquet Bandit Arrested; NYC Women Continue to Seek Man Who Will Bring Flowers

    ​Shed a tear, ladies...the suspect who robbed two banks with a chivalry heretofore unknown in this town (bringing a potted plant, and then a bouquet of flowers, to his "financial endeavors") has been nabbed by the cops.

  • News

    May 4, 2010

    The NYPD Tapes: Inside Bed-Stuy's 81st Precinct

    ​Shed a tear, ladies...the suspect who robbed two banks with a chivalry heretofore unknown in this town (bringing a potted plant, and then a bouquet of flowers, to his "financial endeavors") has been nabbed by the cops.

  • Blogs

    April 26, 2010

    Police Seeking Two Suspects in Subway Robbery

    ​The NYPD is seeking the public's assistance identifying and locating the following two individuals wanted in connection with an armed robbery. On Thursday, April 22, at 10:25 a.m., a Hispanic male in his 30s was robbed at gunpoint by two men in their 20s (pictured) on the Manhattan-bound "L" ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 14, 2010

    Have You Seen... Queens Mostly-Masked Robbers

    This crew had a December armed robbery spree in Queens, hitting a mini-mart in Ozone Park on the 9th, a car care center in Bellerose on the 10th, a 7-11 in Kew Garden Hills on the 19th, an a grocery in Forest Hills on the 21st. In this last instance, one of the robbers forgot to pull his mask dow ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 14, 2010

    Have You Seen... Multi-Tasking Dunkin' Donuts Robber in Queens

    Check out this guy who robbed a Dunkin' Donuts on Merrick Avenue in Jamaica on Sunday night: he flashes a gun at his hip and intimidates the server into handing over cash from the register -- while apparently talking on his cell phone. Everyone's busy these days, but couldn't it wait till he was ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 8, 2010

    4 Livery Cab Robberies in Jamaica in 9 Days; Suspect Photos Released

    ​Livery cab drivers have it tough. You may recall a little epidemic of livery cab driver shootings last summer, and various robberies. Now, four hacks have been robbed or threatened with robbery on 106th Avenue in Jamaica in a nine-day period. On December 27 two perps summoned the car to 106 ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 5, 2010

    2009 Darwin Awards: Crime Down? Criminal Stupidity is Up.

    Crime is reportedly down, so does that mean there are fewer criminals? Maybe criminals are just getting more stupid. Two co-winners of the just-announced 2009 Darwin Awards — "Honoring those who improve the species . . . by accidentally removing themselves from it!" — are evidence. U ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 8, 2009

    Staten Island Bank Robber Caught

    ​Last week we showed a picture of a man who robbed the Northfield Bank at Hylan Plaza in Staten Island. So did the Staten Island Advance, and one of its local readers recognized the perp as a "homeless man suspected in a number of recent petty thefts in the New Dorp area," says the paper. The ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 6, 2009

    Another genius robber

    ​This is turning into a trend. Like our own two robbers on Staten Island, the young man in the picture helpfully provided the police with a picture of himself taken with the cell phone he stole.

  • Blogs

    October 6, 2009

    Have You Seen... Keffiyehed Bank Robber

    Friday afternoon a little before four o'clock, this young woman robbed a Chase bank at 125th Street. Along with the keffiyeh and sunglasses, she is reported to have been wearing a blond wig "with a dark streak," so it probably won't help much to tell you that she is between 5'5" 5'6", and about 115 ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 15, 2009

    Have You Seen... Pharmacy Bandits

    ​ Last Tuesday two robbers stuck up the Family Pharmacy on West 137th Street, taking drugs and cash. Police think they're the same guys who hit seven other drugstores between January and May. In January they robbed the R.O.R. Pharmacy on Madison Avenue and the Joseph Pharmacy on West 72nd Str ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 10, 2009

    Have You Seen... Upper East Side Kitchen Knife Bandit

    ​Big week for serial robbery! We've got gun robbers, a mace robber, livery cab robbers, and now a knife robber -- and a busy one, so look out, Upper East Siders. He's armed with "what is described as a long kitchen knife," says NYPD. On September 4th at 12:45 a.m., he struck at York Avenue and ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 27, 2009

    Clip Job: Nora Ephron on Murph the Surf!

    ​Clip Job: an excerpt every day from the Voice archivesJanuary 7, 1964, Vol. X, No. 12Murph the Surf: The Case of a Failed Folk HeroBy Nora EphronFrom the moment it was announced that someone with the improbable nickname of Murph the Surf had been arrested and charged with the $410,000 Museum of N ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 17, 2009

    Armed Robberies At Starbucks Locations in the Village?

    Poor Starbucks employees: company stocks are dropping, stores are closing, and now, some mad men are robbing them at gun point and herding them into the freezer at locations around the Village.We learned about these armed robberies this afternoon while buying an iced coffee to celebrate the sunny we ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 6, 2009

    SI Advance Gets Results! Robber Sees Photo, Turns Himself In

    We are fond of the Staten Island Advance, and congratulate the paper on its latest public service: its publication (and that of other "media outlets," the Advance graciously acknowleges) of a surveillance photo from a Wednesday gas station robbery has provoked the the robber to surrender. His sister ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 30, 2008

    5 Banks Robbed Yesterday in 4 Boroughs

    Citizens responding to the financial crisis robbed five banks in the city yesterday. A WaMu was hit in the Bronx at 9:20 a.m., then a Valley National near Flatbush, then an HSBC in Long Island City, then the Sovereign Bank on Manhattan Avenue in Greenpoint -- and this was all before 11 a.m. At 3:30 ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 15, 2008

    Law and Disorder: The Bank Robber Cop

    Citizens responding to the financial crisis robbed five banks in the city yesterday. A WaMu was hit in the Bronx at 9:20 a.m., then a Valley National near Flatbush, then an HSBC in Long Island City, then the Sovereign Bank on Manhattan Avenue in Greenpoint -- and this was all before 11 a.m. At 3:30 ... More >>

  • News

    February 5, 2008

    The Fabolous Life

    Hanging with a rapper who has close ties to his home. Maybe too close.

  • News

    October 30, 2007

    The Million-Dollar Jackpot

    A Brooklyn dope dealer hid it in a closet. A robbery crew found it. One gangster got screwdrivered to death. Another one just got screwed.

  • News

    September 4, 2007

    Name That Criminal

    In a notorious murder case, Rohan Bolt is doing the time. Did someone else do the crime?

  • Blogs

    August 30, 2007

    Recognize this Perverted Yankee Fan?

    In a notorious murder case, Rohan Bolt is doing the time. Did someone else do the crime?

  • Blogs

    July 24, 2007

    Police Seek Slick-Haired Greenwich Village Bandit

    In a notorious murder case, Rohan Bolt is doing the time. Did someone else do the crime?

  • Music

    April 19, 2005

    New Yorkers Disguise Covert Flyover Pop in Brit-Hipster Trappings

    In a notorious murder case, Rohan Bolt is doing the time. Did someone else do the crime?

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