Word: thefts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Lorina called him, without irony, "an average 11-year-old." The courts and cops and probation officers and psychologists who tracked his criminal career all agree. "I see a lot of Roberts," says Cook County Circuit Judge Thomas Sumner, who handled charges against Yummy for armed robbery and car theft. "We see this 100 times a week," says Murphy...
...dropped sharply when he fell in with the local Black Disciples gang. Several thousand or so gang members in Chicago are spread out across separate fiefdoms, led by "ministers" in their 30s and 40s who are always recruiting children. There is plenty of work for everyone: car theft, drug running, prostitution, extortion, credit-card fraud. Police suspect that gang leaders use the little ones as drug runners and hit men because they are too young to be seriously punished if they are caught...
Cassidy wrote that Sword has "voluntarily provided to authorities a statement wherein he admitted the theft of approximately...
...precious purloined stones. Investigators were acting on search warrants for an undisclosed location this afternoon, and expected to arrest one or more suspects tonight. The tipster's motive for coming forward: a $50,000 reward from Tiffany's and its insurers for information on the theft...
...four security guards with duct tape, the robbers left with almost 300 pieces of jewelry, valued at as much as $1.25 million, and the videotapes from security cameras. Tiffany's opened for business today, and Lloyd's of London has offered a $25,000.00 reward for information on the theft...