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Police are looking for a man they say accosted another man using a bathroom in a Bronx Burlington Coat Factory last week, putting him in a chokehold before stealing $40 from his pocket and running off, authorities say. The 63-year-old victim was in the restroom of the store on Exterior Street in the middle of the afternoon Friday when the…

Authorities are investigating an early-morning home invasion in New Jersey Thursday in which a woman ended up forced into a chair, a gun pointed at her head, and a man punched in the face as a 3-year-old girl sat in a bedroom nearby, officials say. Two suspects, at least one armed with a revolver, broke into the Hackensack apartment shortly…

A stolen FedEx package led New Jersey cops on a wild foot pursuit that took them across a highway, through some woods and into a creek before the suspect was caught behind a hotel in a different neighborhood Tuesday, authorities say. Police in Hackensack initially got a call from a FedEx delivery driver who said he was robbed shortly after…

Police are looking for the young man who forced the senior citizen into a car and made him withdraw the money.

A New York City man accused of attacking and robbing an elderly man while the victim was visiting a grave at a northern New Jersey cemetery is also suspected in several similar attacks, authorities said Thursday Todd Scott Allen, 57, of Brooklyn, faces counts of robbery with bodily injury, burglary and credit card theft that stem from the June 12…

A father has been arrested after allegedly stabbing his 6-year-old daughter early Thursday, and then making up a story about an armed robbery, police said. The father, identified late Thursday as Jia Pan, initially told police that he and his daughter were walking in the Lower East Side near Monroe and Pike just before 12:30 a.m. when the suspect approached…

The thieves didn’t get the cash from the machines themselves, however, but rather from the owner and operators of the ATMs. NBC New York’s Myles Miller reports.

Police in New York City are searching for at least four men involved in an armed robbery of a liquor store on Monday. Surveillance footage released by the NYPD on Wednesday shows one of the suspects inside the store on Lefferts Boulevard in South Ozone Park, Queens, pointing a gun at the 19-year-old employee. The men then went behind the…

Police in New York City are searching for at least four men involved in an armed robbery of a liquor store on Monday.

The man believes the masked suspects followed and targeted him, and said he’s not the only victim as other friends with similar watches have been attacked and robbed. NBC New York’s Anjali Hemphill reports.

Perhaps even worse, the man believes he’s not the only victim the robbers have struck, with several of his friends with similar watches having recently been attacked and robbed

A thief grabbed a 77-year-old woman’s purse — dragging her to the ground and sending her flying into a fence — in an attack that was caught on surveillance video, the NYPD said.  The woman was waiting at a bus stop on Cooper Street, near Evergreen Avenue, in Bushwick around 8:50 p.m. on Feb. 6 when the man approached her…

A man attacked and robbed a 77-year-old woman as she was waiting for a bus in Brooklyn, the NYPD said. Gaby Acevedo reports.

Surveillance video near Walton Street and Marcy Avenue in Brooklyn showed a group of suspects stealing a delivery man’s bicycle and beating him last Saturday, according to police. NBC New York’s Katherine Creag reports.

Police in New Jersey are searching for three suspects accused of sexually assaulting a woman in her home before robbing her. The robbery suspects entered the victim’s apartment on Broad Street in Newark before 12:45 p.m. on Sunday, according to the city’s Department of Public Safety. A renter who was at home saw the suspects and they sexually assaulted...

Police are searching for a man who they say stole diapers from a Rite Aid in the Bronx and threatened an employee with a syringe. The incident took place around 9:38 a.m. Jan. 9 inside the pharmacy located on Grand Concourse in the Mount Eden section of the borough.

Police in Jasper, Alabama, are searching for a man who robbed at least two churches while wearing a Batman-style mask....

King’s Way Church pastor Jason Hooper says the “Batman Bandit” used a rock to break the front window....

The man stole a keyboard and bass guitar, committing his crime in just one minute and 18 seconds....

“You’re frustrated because looking at the gentleman...

Authorities in Florida are investigating a series of ATM explosions that appear to be linked, the Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office said Monday. The latest explosion, which targeted a drive-up cash machine at a Regions Bank in the Tampa suburb of Valrico, occurred overnight Sunday, the sheriff’s office said in a statement, NBC News reported.

A man was viciously beaten as he left a Bronx McDonald’s in a violent robbery attempt caught on camera over $1 — and no one stopped to help.

A 60-year-old man is now fighting for his life after him and his partner were attacked in a beatdown that was caught on camera. Even worse, no one stopped to help after the attack was over. NBC New York’s Marc Santia reports.