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An armed robber was beaten and stripped of his clothes Christmas Eve after trying to hold up a California hair salon. Corneilyus Howeth, a 23-year-old Oklahoma City native, stepped into Head Honchos hair salon around midnight. Armed with a gun, he forced employees to empty their pockets as he looted them. But when one employee […]

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A French baker used a broom to fight back against an armed robber Saturday. A gun-wielding crook burst through the doors of the Le Petit Duc bakery, located just outside Paris. Fueled by “rage” and intent on keeping the boulangerie safe, an unidentified woman rushed into the back to grab a broom as the criminal […]

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A convenience store clerk in Ohio fought back against an armed robber and was able to disarm him late Saturday night. Sandusky native 34-year-old Marc Alvarez was working at Convenience Food Mart when a masked robber armed with a gun burst through the front door just after 11 o’clock. Alvarez attacked the crook, got his […]

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CCTV footage from the recent Seattle Metro bus armed robbery was released this week and shows the moment the armed robber was tackled by several bus passengers. On Nov. 25, Trevonnte Brown, 19, robbed several bus passengers at gunpoint. He went from person to person, demanding their belongings. But one man decided he wasn’t going […]

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A Florida man donned a Duck Dynasty disguise and robbed a bank last Friday. An unidentified Florida man wore a fake beard and a bandana and robbed a Fifth Third Bank in Ocoee. According to witnesses, he brandished a “small handgun under his shirt,” demanded the tellers give him money and then fled on foot, […]

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When local residents of the small town of Rhine, Georgia, spotted an out-of-towner holding up their convenience store at gunpoint, they quickly rallied together and dispensed a healthy dose of rural justice. After thrusting a gun in the clerk’s face and demanding all of her money, the crook casually sauntered off into broad daylight. But […]

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A gas station clerk walked away from an armed robbery unscathed after his cellphone stopped a bullet fired from a robber in Wintergarden, Florida. The clerk of a Hess Gas Station was working the morning shift when around 4:30 a man entered the store, brandishing a revolver and ordering him to open the safe, the […]

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A 24-year-old New York deli worker fended off an armed robber, chasing him out of the shop with a machete. The masked robber burst through the doors of the Stop & Shop Deli on Crooked Hill Road in Brentwood September 25, firing rounds from his .22-caliber pistol as he demanded the worker to fill his […]

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After 41-years in solitary confinement, convicted armed robber and murderer, 71-year-old Herman Wallace, will be set free after Judge Brian Jackson ruled his 1974 conviction was unconstitutional. Wallace, diagnosed with liver cancer with only weeks to live, is one of three men known as the Angola Three, a group convicted of murdering a prison guard […]

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A potential mass shooting at a McDonald’s was narrowly averted when an armed robber’s gun repeatedly failed to fire. The gunman, 24-year-old Jestin Anthony Joseph, asked for a water cup in a Fort Worth McDonalds, but his mind wasn’t on quenching his thirst. The would-be robber surreptitiously pulled out his semi-automatic handgun, hiding it behind […]

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In the world of academia, the mind is strengthened, but apparently a pair of students at the University of Virginia decided to strengthen their bodies too. Nineteen-year-old Johnny Calderon Jr., and 18-year-old Gerald Allen didn’t know it yet, but they were in over their heads when they attempted to rob the college students at gunpoint. […]

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When the clerk reached under the counter for what the robber thought was some easy loot, he pulled out a gun of his own instead. And the entire incident was caught on surveillance video too.

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