Texas Police Seek Coffee-Tossing Robber
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DALLAS - A coffee-throwing robber who hurls hot java at cashiers is wanted for at least seven North Texas robberies, police said Thursday.
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SAN ANTONIO - Police arrested a woman who allegedly attacked a San Antonio convenience store clerk on the head with a hammer after he turned down her demand for free gasoline on Tuesday.  Police said the woman told the clerk that she had no money and was about to run out of gas.
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LAREDO, Texas  - Frustrated by tighter security on the U.S.-Mexico border, illegal immigrants and drug traffickers are taking it out on U.S. agents, increasingly attacking them with guns, rocks and petrol bombs.
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A would-be Canadian robber picked the wrong place at the wrong time this week, attempting to hit a liquor store -- right across the street from a police station in the midst of a shift change.
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By Sarah N. Lynch, The Tribune, Mesa, Ariz.  Feb. 3--Thieves looking to break into cars in downtown Mesa may want to think twice before they smash the glass.
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DUBUQUE, Iowa - A sweatshirt loaned to a friend two years ago led to the arrest of two people for a series of robberies in Indiana.
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MILWAUKEE - A thief found out the hard way that robbing a woman isn't the best way to capture her heart. Two men robbed a U-Haul store around 3 p.m. Sunday, taking an unspecified amount of cash, according the store's owner.
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NEW BRITAIN, Conn. - Police are investigating a report that a man asked boys at Holmes Elementary School to urinate in a cup for cash. A man last Thursday went into a boys' bathroom and asked students for a urine sample for a parole hearing, police said.
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By Sandra Baker, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Texas  Sep.
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Norwegian police are hunting for armed robbers who stole one of the world&#39;s most famous paintings, The Scream from an Oslo museum.
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BOGOTA  - One of the 12 drug dealers most sought by the United States was captured yesterday, police said. Dagoberto Florez Rios, for whose capture the United States had offered US$5 million, was arrested
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MISSION, Texas - Police say the jingle of this ice cream truck meant pot-sickles. Police say elementary school students tipped them off to an ice cream truck driver who was apparently selling $5 and $10 bags of marijuana from the truck. Most customers were in the third, fourth, and fifth grades.
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Police are checking a flood of tips in the hunt for armed thieves who stole Edvard Munch&#39;s &quot;The Scream&quot; and new details have showed the robbers were more professional than first thought.
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CLOVIS, Calif. - Police here are looking for a collection plate crook who swiped church donations during a funeral service.  The theft occurred Friday at Emmanuel Lutheran Church, where nearly 150 mourners attended memorial services for 85-year-old LeRoy Adolph.
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A search of streets around the west end of Glasgow is under way after reports of a bank robbery.
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One Fool has cooled toward the coffee king.
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Slovaks were on the lookout for a foul-smelling bank robber Thursday after police said the thief had a nasty odor.