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Alameda County prosecutors have struck plea deals with two alleged robbers, both of whom were accused of luring their victims into a false sense of security with the help of a suspected prostitute. In one case, Nicholas Lewis, 31, was sentenced to nine days he already served in jail plus probation after pleading no contest to grand theft. In another, Luis Silva, 24, also pleaded no contest to grand theft for a two-year probation term, court records show.

Police are appealing for information after a man was pushed down the stairs and robbed at Waterloo station. The man was walking towards the Bakerloo Line platforms when he was attacked and had his wallet stolen by a group of men at around 6.20am on Friday, November 21, police said. Detectives have released images of four men they would like to speak to in connection with the incident. CCTV images show four black men wearing thick winter coats with their hoods up.

Footage posted online showed a man being hit with a trouser belt and reportedly forced to transfer money from his bank account. The incident is said to have taken place at The Tannery in the city's Bath Lane on November 21. On the same night, officers were told a group of men had then visited a second address 13 miles away in Harborough District and demanded those inside transfer money to them and hand over designer clothing.

BROOKLYN, NY - Police are seeking two suspects who robbed an 18-year-old man after threatening him and simulating a firearm earlier this month in the Bay Ridge area. The incident occurred around 6:30 p.m. on November 15 near 85th Street and Fort Hamilton Parkway, according to the NYPD. Investigators said the victim was approached by two unidentified men who demanded his belongings and pretended to have a gun.

Reuters A man has been charged with robbery and attempted robbery after more than 30,000 worth of iPhones were stolen from an Apple store. Avram Stoica, 20, of no fixed abode, allegedly targeted the new iPhone 17 phones at the company's store at the Lakeside shopping centre in Thurrock, Essex, on 22 September. He is also charged with attempted robbery, following reports of an attempt to rob an Apple store in Brent Cross,

Four Bay Area men have been charged in a 19-felony complaint with crimes related to their alleged participation in a series of home burglaries and robberies that netted hundreds of thousands of dollars in valuables and cash, court records show. Randy Taylor, 27, of Fairfield, Terrell Mackey, 30, of San Francisco, Armani McFarland, 31, of Antioch, and Dajuan Menifee, 27, of San Francisco, were charged on Nov. 10 with a mix of burglary and robbery counts.

At the beginning of the clip, the silver four-door sedan could be seen backing into a parking spot in front of Accolades Vape and Tobacco Shop in Warrenton, Virginia. As FOX 5 reporter Shomari Stone noted in the segment, the car was designed to fit five passengers. As the clip progressed, five people emerged from the back seats alone. Then, the trunk pops open to reveal two more suspects climbing out. The final two suspects in the driver's seat and front passenger seat brought the total to nine nearly twice what the car was designed to hold.

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.