Cash-happy ATM lands man life in prison
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A man in China's southern city of Guangzhou has been jailed for life for taking funds from a malfunctioning ATM, local media reported on Tuesday.
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ZAGREB, Croatia - He put a mask on his face, pulled out a gun and demanded money. But when the bank clerk laughed in his face, the would-be robber was so humiliated he just ran away...
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SANTA CRUZ, Calif. - A jail inmate allowed to attend a family funeral returned to the jailhouse 12 hours later with a stash of drugs and syringes in his stomach, authorities said.  Joshua Robertson, 30, of Boulder Creek, had been in jail since Oct.
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A Georgia man gave the middle finger to a judge who sentenced him to life in prison plus 40 years for the shooting death of a Savannah debutante during a botched robbery.
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When the deal went down in Las Vegas, the seller was introduced only as "Mr. E." In a room at Caesars Palace hotel, Mr. E exchanged a pound-and-a-half bag of heroin for $65,000 cash &#151; unaware that the buyer was an undercover detective. The sting landed him in Nevada state prison for nearly four years.
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One of two inmates wanted in a daring jailbreak last month that echoed the plot of "The Shawshank Redemption" was captured in an apartment just six blocks from the jail, authorities said.
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Money for nothing and your gas for free Reprogramming an ATM to dispense more cash than it ought to is far easier than anyone imagined.â¦
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. - A man serving a life sentence for murder was sentenced to three additional years in prison for passing out cheese sandwiches while in jail.
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HUNTSVILLE, Texas  - A Texas man convicted of  killing a bank employee during a 1982 robbery in Dallas was  executed by lethal injection on Wednesday.
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A veteran criminal received the longest prison sentence of his career Monday, after being caught because of the dandruff he had left behind at the scene of an armed robbery.
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A Frenchman receives a 26-month prison sentence for stealing priceless works of art, a day after he tried to kill himself in jail.
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John A. Lynch Jr. was sentenced to more than three years in prison for accepting payoffs from a mining company.
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A convicted and registered offender writes in with his side of the story.
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A bank robber who was arrested because he left his account card at a branch where he had checked his balance just before holding it up was sentenced to four years in jail.
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With little more than the standard &#36;100 in his pocket, Ernest Willis walked out of prison a free man Wednesday after 17 years on death row for a crime that may have never even occurred.
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Leave the gun. Bank robbers have found an easier way to make off with other people's money: Around the country, thieves have hot-wired forklifts at construction sites, chugged up to banks and scooped up their ATMs, with all the cash inside.
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Masked men escape with a considerable amount of cash after robbing a cash delivery guard.