Thieves put elderly man in garage
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An 85-year-old man is robbed then locked in his garage at his home in County Down, the police say.
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AN opportunist burglar struck at a house during 10 minutes when the householder was in the bathroom. The thief used an unlocked door to get in to the house in Glenfield Avenue, Weddington, and took a laptop computer.
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Four men are questioned over the armed robbery of two elderly brothers at their County Down home.
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Two armed robbers tricked their way into one of the British capital&#39;s most exclusive jewellery stores and stole millions of pounds (euros, dollars) worth of designer gems, British police said Friday.
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CAMBRIDGE, Minn. - A 74-year-old man who chased down a thief and held him at gunpoint until authorities arrived now faces a charge more serious than the thief himself.
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Police reveal that almost Â£500,000 was stolen by armed robbers who held a County Down family hostage.
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TWO teenagers and a 23-year-old man were arrested after a break- in at a Wirral school.   Officers were called after the burglary at Bebington high last night.   They later arrested a 16-year-old boy, a 17-year-old boy and an older man at their homes in Bebington.
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By JOHN BRANTON  A thief used a 14-year-old SUV to smash his way into a convenience store in the Rose Village neighborhood and a Minnehaha computer shop over the weekend, police said.
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DAVENPORT, Iowa - An elderly man was convicted Wednesday of trying to kill his 81-year-old neighbor with a hammer. Richard Edison Johnson, 76, faces a mandatory 25-year prison sentence after a jury took less than an hour to find him guilty of attempted murder and willful injury.
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ELKHART, Ind. - A woman heading home from a store was surprised to find a man accusing her of stealing his van.  The 71-year-old woman was leaving Wal-Mart about 9 p.m. Saturday with her great-nieces and great-nephews when a man walked in front of her van, forcing her to stop.
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Rocker Ozzy Osbourne chased off burglars who stole Â£2million of gems from his mansion early yesterday. The ex-Black Sabbath frontman caught the masked intruder red-handed as he pocketed wife Sharon&#39;s jewellery in her dressing room.
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A 48-year-old man is remanded in custody accused of attempting to murder a woman during a burglary.
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Criminals are exploiting the chaos caused by Japan's deadliest earthquake in a decade by stealing and defrauding vulnerable residents, particularly the elderly, police warned.
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Thieves broke into the Buenos Aires home of film director Francis Ford Coppola and made off with a laptop containing work on his new movie, an employee said on Thursday.
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A couple in their 80s are recovering after an aggravated burglary at their home near Larne.
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A couple in their 80s are assaulted by a man during an armed robbery at their north Belfast home.
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Police release a CCTV image of two men alleged to have carried out a multi-million pound jewellery theft.