Word: robber
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Gaining trust was a major hurdle for workers manning the needle van. Robert, a 36-year-old convicted armed robber, remembers thinking the van was part of a police sting operation. "You're not used to nobody helping you and wanting nothing in return," he says. Eventually, outreach workers in the van helped him apply to a treatment program to end his 16-year addiction to heroin. To date, more than 200 addicts have been funneled through the van and into drug- treatment programs. Nonaddicts have also turned to the van for help. Teenagers flag it down...
...addition to these awards, Johnson distributed 18 letters of commendation to various officers and dispatchers. Dispatcher Carol S. Beal, who successfully coordinated Boston, Metro, Cambridge and Harvard patrol cars in the chase of an armed robber in April, received two letters...
...city's rampant street crime, and he may also throw in some practical tips to visitors on coddling a queasy stomach or dealing with recalcitrant taxi drivers. "Some people think it is in bad taste to allow a crook to do such a thing," said the former Great Train Robber, who hopes to meet soon with Rio police to discuss his radio debut on Eco Radio...
...defense argued that King, a convicted robber who was on parole at the time, was high on the drug PCP and had brought the beating on himself by leading officers on a high-speed chase, then ignoring their orders to lie down on the ground. The prosecution counters that such actions, even if proved, did not justify excessive force. The trial is expected to last into next month...
This tale of a train robber in turn of the century Oregon and southwest Canada contains the most spectacular landscape scenery of any movie in recent memory. The film essentially follows the trains which are the source of the Grey Fox's (Richard Farnsworth) plunder as they wend their lone ways through the small towns and steppes of the Yukon and British Columbia...