Word: getaway
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Injured, the two suspects attempted to climb into a getaway car, but their flight was prevented when they crashed into a Cutlass Supreme a few feet ahead on Dunster Street, near the corner of Mass. Ave. Cambridge police officers and ambulances arrived seconds later, taking the suspects, both bleeding, into custody...
Pasquarello said police recovered the stolensack of cash and several firearms from thewould-be getaway car, a four-door maroon 1991Buick Century. Ballistic tests identified theweapons as a .357 magnum, a 9-millimeter pistol,and a Tech 9 semiautomatic weapon. The weaponswere fully loaded...
...hackers, toll-fraud artists and electronic intruders. But the new crimes, says Jim Thomas, a criminology professor at Northern Illinois University, ``aren't simply the esoteric type they were five years ago.'' They are ``computer crimes,'' he adds, ``only in the sense that a bank robbery with a getaway car is an `automobile crime...
...three guards. The robbers emerged from the vault with $200,000 and greeted arriving police with a fusillade that wounded five people, including a policeman. The police pursued the fleeing robbers, but soon ran out of ammunition. A squad car broke down. Officers mistook a passing van for a getaway car and fired on it; inside was a police colonel, who sought refuge in a nearby supermarket. Said Jun Grajales, a university teacher: ``People now cower in fear when they see cops, whereas before they used to sigh in relief.'' The gunmen remain at large...
...Tomorrow will be hellacious," said shuttle driver Allen A. Russell. "It's a holiday weekend getaway day...there could be as many as 40 people...