Camera phone technology brings quick arrest of robbery suspect
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. A camera phone -- and its quick-thinking owner -- are being credited with solving a robbery. The victim is a limo driver who was washing his car in Nashville, Tennessee, today.
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Surrounded blagger mans the phones An armed blagger who was surrounded by cops in an Austrian bank filled an idle five hours before his arrest by offering phone customers loans, Ananova reports.â¦
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A bank robber grabbed a toddler and held the boy at gunpoint while demanding thousands of dollars from a teller, authorities said. The startling scene was captured on surveillance video that shows the little boy staring up at the gun.
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By Mike Holtzclaw, Daily Press, Newport News, Va.  May 29--SUFFOLK -- Suffolk police have arrested the man they believe was responsible for a string of church burglaries, as well as the theft of an automatic teller machine from a local store.   Police spokeswoman Lt.
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A Pennsylvania police chief turned   in his son after identifying him as a bank robber in still   photographs taken from a security camera videotape, authorities   said on Friday.
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GREENSBORO, N.C. - Four people who tried to rob a Chinese food delivery driver left him an unusual tip: a cell phone.  Ming Jing Lu arrived at a Greensboro residence with a delivery and noticed a group of people who made him suspicious, police said.
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A Pennsylvania thief uses a default master passcode to get extra cash from a grocery store ATM machine. Police are baffled but Threat Level readers have an idea.
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MEMPHIS, Tenn. - A masked robber who beat his victim was remorseful enough to take the man to the hospital for treatment, but his change of heart didn't last long. Within hours the thief was telephoning threats to the victim, who was an acquaintance, authorities said.
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STEVENS POINT, Wis. - If only all criminals were this helpful. A 24-year-old man called police to tell them he was trying to break into a church, but he wasn't having much luck. Police said the would-be thief's call prompted them to show up at St.
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A robot helped police nab a murder suspect who had eluded Westomoreland County authorities for three months.
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A man with an unknown message for  the media sparked a citywide alert on Tuesday by briefly taking  a female clerk hostage at the Mexican Consulate in Los Angeles  before he was shot by police.
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Printed symbols called SpotCodes can help cellphones with cameras find their way around cyberspace.
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A bizarre robbery in which a bomblike device was strapped to a bank employee is under investigation by Hollywood, Florida, police. The employee told officers that two armed men abducted him from his home, taped the device to him and told him they were activating a bomb, a police spokesman said.
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Just about everything that could go wrong did go wrong for a would-be Canadian robber this week and led to his quick arrest.
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Device will capture high-resolution still images and video--and it still makes phone calls.
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By Robin Fitzgerald, The Sun Herald, Biloxi, Miss.  Jan. 30--GULFPORT -- Police don't often find a reason to arrest a citizen who calls for help to unlock a car.   But on Monday, officers responding to a 2:44 a.m.
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T-Mobile's Sidekick line of cellphones has become a popular item among would-be thieves. And not everyone is happy about the police tactics being used to combat this crime surge.