News 9/2/2011: Electric Substation Hit By Copper Thieves
Friday, September 2nd, 2011 at 4:38pm: Violent Crime is a horrible subject to cover in such depth, but how else can you prepare yourself and your family except by learning from others mistakes? In almost all cases there is something that could have been done by the victim to better protect themselves.
Murdered Ill. child's father in prison for robbery
by Houston Chronicle
LOUIS, Ill. (AP) — The father of a child shot to death in East St. Louis is in federal prison for a 2006 armed robbery in southwestern Illinois. He admits having carried out that crime to help support the child who was just killed. ...
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Man gets 12 years for robbery left accomplice dead
by MiamiHerald.com
A central Florida man has been sentenced to 12 years in prison for a botched robbery that left one of his accomplices dead. As part of a deal with Polk County prosecutors, 29-year-old Garie Lamay pleaded no contest Wednesday to third-degree murder, ...
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Police: Man stabbed himself, reported fake robbery
by Houston Chronicle
(AP) — Traverse City police say a man falsely reported a robbery and stabbed himself to make his story more convincing — all because he didn't want his family to know he'd lost $1000 at a local casino. The 50-year-old man, whose name wasn't ...
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Bizarre Details Uncovered in Robbery/Kidnapping Case
by KWCH
The probable cause in the case of two men charged with robbery and armed criminal action brings bizarre details to a much-publicized case that was first reported as a robbery and kidnapping. The victim of that alleged kidnapping told police the whole ...
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Electric Substation Hit By Copper Thieves
by WIBW
Crews from Kaw Valley arrived to find thieves had stolen copper grounding cables from several points inside the substation. Despite the theft, the substation remained operational. However, Kaw Valley crews had to de-energize the substation to make ...
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