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The Buckeye Bandit, sentenced to 20 years in prison Friday, demanded money from tellers at gunpoint in eight banks around the Columbus-area of Ohio.

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The FBI maintains a database of wanted bank robbers from unsolved heists in their "Robbers Container" and some of the disguises used are weak.

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A concealed carry permit holder in Warren, Michigan found himself face to face with a bank robber and shot the man three times.

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A medical gown-wearing bank robber was back in custody Tuesday after stealing a guard’s gun and escaping during a hospital transfer.

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The Federal Bureau of Investigation is requesting the public’s help in identifying a man who allegedly shot and wounded a police officer during one of about a half dozen take-over style robberies committed across the U.S., the agency announced Tuesday.

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“He looked really, I mean just really, really out of place. I mean, not a little bit, a lot,” one witness said of the suspect.

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Two Idaho bank robbers were captured in a motel Sunday, several days after their crime, and one of the suspects was wearing a very prophetic T-shirt that read, “It’s all fun and games until the cops show up.” Rocky Fisher, 35, and Jennifer Balfe, 19, robbed a bank in Cottonwood, Idaho, on Friday. Now in […]

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A former Marine robbed a Missouri bank then shot himself in the head after crashing his getaway car Wednesday. The 25-year-old Florissant native robbed a U.S. bank in Hazelwood at gunpoint before fleeing in his getaway car. Police pursued the suspect for several miles before he smashed into a concrete guardrail. As authorities approached the […]

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A pistol that was retrieved from the body of the infamous Depression-era outlaw Bonnie Parker just hours after she was shot to death is set to be auctioned on Jan. 25 in Knoxville. On May 23, 1934, Bonnie and Clyde’s reign of infamy came to a dramatic close when they were both shot to death […]

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A Texas bank robber was robbed by another crook just moments after holding up bank. Larry Poulos was the unwitting recipient of karma-refund. The Arlington native passed a deposit slip to a teller at the Educational Employees Credit Union. Scribbled on the back was the word “bomb.” Poulos managed to get away with more than […]

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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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After a daring bank heist, the robber fled on foot with his loot in hand. In a riveting foot pursuit, filled with excitement at every turn, the security guard chased after his suspect. In the first few seconds of the clip the bank robber jogs across the screen. About 20-seconds later, a security guard wearing […]

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