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#robbery

The January 2019 beating 88-yearold Yik Oi Huang, popularly known as Popo Huang around her Visitacion Valley neighborhood, seemed a particularly brutal example of elder abuse. Huang was badly bludgeoned after the early morning attack at Visitacion Valley Playground, where she was found bloodied in a sandbox with head injuries, a broken spine, broken hand, and broken ribs. Her shirt had been pulled up and her pants pulled down below beneath her waist, her shoes stolen, and her house keys stolen too.

Toronto police have arrested three people after a robbery investigation in Etobicoke resulted in a collision involving police vehicles and a suspect's vehicle. The collision happened around 3:30 p.m. on Sunday near Kipling Avenue and The Queensway, according to a social media post by Toronto Police Service. Police said they were investigating a robbery in the area at the time.

Demaria Adger, 30, has racked up 13 felony convictions in Contra Costa, Alameda and Los Angeles counties since 2013, according to the charging documents. This month, he was charged with assault with a firearm, second-degree robbery and gun possession, all stemming from a July 16 robbery where his alleged cohort shot the victim while attempting to rob the man after he visited an ATM in Hayward, authorities said.

Police are looking for a man they suspect to be involved in a September break-in and robbery. The Toronto Police Service released photos of the suspect online and are asking the public for help finding the man. The suspect allegedly broke into and stole from a home near Dundas Street E. and Pape Avenue while the residents were home on Sept. 15, according to a news release from police on Sunday.

Police are searching for five suspects after a jewelry store in Dufferin Mall was robbed on Saturday night. Around 7:20pm on Saturday, five masked suspects entered the store and took merchandise, Toronto police said on social media following the incident. Two of the suspects were armed with hammers, according to police Police said the suspects smashed the store's display boxes but no injuries were reported.

The attack happened around 11:30 a.m. Aug. 29 inside Santa Rosa Plaza. Police said the teenager was waiting in the mall's food court when three people approached and demanded his expensive shoes. When he refused, one of them punched him in the face. He ran and was chased but managed to reach mall security. He was taken by ambulance to hospital and treated for broken facial bones. The attackers ran off before officers arrived.

Kenneth Siriboe, 21, allegedly approached the woman around 5 a.m. Sunday inside the residential building on East Gun Hill Road near Putnam Place in Norwood, where he allegedly covered her mouth with one hand and squeezed her throat with the other, according to a criminal complaint. He then threw the woman to the ground and repeatedly punched her, causing bruising, swelling and cuts, the court doc said.

The San Francisco Police Department is offering a $50,000 reward for information about the shooting death of wheelchair-bound Keith Albert, 32, who was killed at 20th and Shotwell streets in August 2024. The department today posted a bulletin with images of a young man with black hair, wearing glasses and red-and-white gloves as an "unknown suspect." The reward, the bulletin said, is for information "leading to the identification, arrest and conviction of the suspect(s) responsible."

"The victim stated she was boxed in with nowhere to go, her back against a car and they wouldn't take 'no' for an answer," the police report stated.

Staten Island, NY - Two men are being sought after allegedly distracting and robbing a 43-year-old man inside a Staten Island business earlier this week, police said. The incident occurred Monday around 7:30 p.m. inside a commercial establishment at 341 Port Richmond Avenue. According to police, one man approached the victim and asked him a question while a second man reached into the victim's front pocket and removed cash without permission. The pair then fled on foot toward an unknown location. No injuries were reported.

It's based on the stranger-than-fiction tale of Jeffrey Manchester, played by Channing Tatum, an ex-military father-of-three who just can't quite find his place in the civilian world. His old army buddy Steve (Lakeith Stanfield) reminds him of his particular skill for observation, urging him to put it to good use. Instead, after disappointing his daughter once again with an underwhelming birthday present, he decides to use it for something less well-advised,

SAN JOSE Three men were arrested for allegedly robbing two separate people they met with on the pretense of buying expensive items from online marketplaces, authorities said. The three suspects two 19-year-old men and an 18-year-old man who was a juvenile at the time of the incidents allegedly carried out the two robberies on June 11, according to a press release from the San Jose Police Department.

The first occurred aboard a southbound D train at around 4:27 p.m. on Aug. 27. Cops say a 50-year-old man was ambushed by a knife-wielding robber who punched him in the face and stole his cellphone. Police reported that the victim was not hospitalized and refused medical attention at the scene. The perpetrator, meanwhile, fled the station on foot; he was last seen wearing black pants and a black shirt.

Enrique Arenal, 33, pulled a gun on the employees and stole two bags containing marijuana, as well as personal items from both victims, in the June 2021 incident, according to federal prosecutors. As he "scouted" the area one day earlier, he had observed the same two victims loading bags into their vehicle and had "good reason" to suspect that the bags contained marijuana, authorities said in court filings.

Jamar Murry-El, 31, was found guilty by a jury of Robbery in the Third Degree, Grand Larceny in the Fourth Degree, and Endangering the Welfare of a Child.

A 26-year-old Oakland man was arrested for robbing and kidnapping an acquaintance at gunpoint, demanding money and threatening further harm if more was not sent.