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Police Say Burglar Brought Her Daughter, 2, on Job

by Associated Press, Posted Oct 21st 2010 10:37AM

Nicole Bugajski allegedly brought her 2-year-old along on a home invasion. Credit: Muskegon County Sheriff
MUSKEGON TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) - Police say it was "bring your daughter to work" day for a woman they said took her 2-year-old girl with her ...It was "bring your daughter to work" day for a woman who allegedly took her 2-year-old girl with her when she broke into a western Michigan home.
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Teenage Hoods Knock Off Little Girls' Lemonade Stand

by Tom Henderson, Posted Jul 23rd 2010 9:17AM

Michigan has seen its share of desperate criminals and vicious thugs. Notorious banker robber John Dillinger once hid out in the state. But even Public Enemy No. 1 would be embarrassed by the current class of criminals. Police in Pontiac ...
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Baby Carriage Robbery

by Roger Sinasohn, Posted Jan 6th 2009 5:00PM

So you're driving along, enjoying your day, perhaps thinking about your destination when, suddenly, a baby carriage appears before you. You hit the brakes as hard as you can in a desperate attempt to stop in time, but it's no good -- you hit the ...
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Teen's text foils robbery

by Angie Felton, Posted May 2nd 2008 9:00AM

Even for big kids, staying home alone can sometimes seem a little creepy. But for a thirteen-year-old Ohio girl, a sick day resting at home really did play out like something out of a horror movie or crime show. When a red pickup pulled into the ...
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Pregnant bank teller shot

by Roger Sinasohn, Posted Apr 23rd 2008 10:01AM

Thirty-year-old Katherin Shuffield works as a teller for the Huntington Bank in Indianapolis, Indiana. She's also five months pregnant with twins. Yesterday, however, wasn't such a good day at work. Around 9:30am, a masked man came into the bank, ...
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Changing a mugger's life

by Roger Sinasohn, Posted Mar 29th 2008 4:01PM

Sometimes, once in a great while, someone gets an opportunity to make a major difference in someone else's life. That chance came recently to Julio Diaz, a thirty-one-year-old social worker in New York City. On his way home, he got off the subway ...
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Another girl scout gets robbed of cookie money

by Roger Sinasohn, Posted Feb 3rd 2008 4:03PM

So we've all learned that we don't go around the neighborhood selling cookies without an adult, right girls? In fact, let's all just set up a table outside the local grocery store and sell cookies with mom right there. That'll be perfectly safe, ...
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Girl Scout robbed of cookie money

by Roger Sinasohn, Posted Jan 16th 2008 10:32AM

Would you let your ten-year-old daughter go out alone to sell Girl Scout cookies? Neither would Chris Grant, but his daughter did it anyway. Nicole Grant went out with a friend to sell cookies and was stopped by a twelve-year-old girl. The other girl ...
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Taking your kid to work -- committing armed robbery

by Roger Sinasohn, Posted Jan 11th 2008 10:34AM

Wow. Quality childcare must be really difficult to come by in Minnesota. So difficult that a woman apparently brought her 20-month-old son with her while she and a man committed two armed robberies. Twenty-one-year-old Jessica Reich, the boy's ...
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Thou shalt not steal -- if it makes you late for church

by Roger Sinasohn, Posted Dec 1st 2007 12:09PM

An Indianapolis teen made sure he was home before curfew and that he was there in church every Sunday. How proud his mother must have been to have him sitting next to her on the pew each week, knowing how conscientious he was about being home by ...
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Real-life Halloween goblins

by Roger Sinasohn, Posted Nov 11th 2007 12:06PM

One year, when I was a kid, I was out trick-or-treating when a much older kid ran up behind me, snatched my bag of candy out of my hand, and ran off to jump in a a car to make his getaway. Obviously, it was some older teens who were too lazy even to ...
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10-year-old arrested for aggravated robbery of a 6-year-old

by Sandy Maple, Posted Oct 22nd 2007 3:32PM

What has the world come to when 10-year-olds are pulling knives on 6-year-olds? That's what police in Garden City, Kansas say happened last week in front of Victor Ornelas Elementary School. Picture this: A six-year-old girl waiting for her mother ...
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Boy robbed at his lemonade stand by two teens

by Heather Craven, Posted Jul 27th 2007 4:04PM

There are some crimes that appear to be particularly heartless. One Wisconsin boy experienced such a crime when two teens robbed him of his profits at his lemonade stand. Young Austin Cundy, 11, of Oshkosh was selling lemonade to raise money for a ...
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Teen robs bank to pay for college

by Sandy Maple, Posted Jul 22nd 2007 2:03PM

For many, finding the money to go to college is a difficult task. Christy has availed herself of legal every opportunity to receive funds to pay her way through school. Through full and part time jobs, grants, loans and grandma's generosity, she has ...
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Yet another use for baby wipes: bank robbery

by Roger Sinasohn, Posted Mar 6th 2007 3:33PM

A woman in New York put her baby wipes to new use -- she used them to hold up a bank. Claiming the wipes were a bomb, she put them on the counter and demanded money from a teller. The teller handed over the cash and the woman ran out. The police ...
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