It was a shocking start to the year: New Year's Eve fireworks, bubbly, toasts and more than 500 incidents of robbery and assault on women in Germany in a single night.
The hostage, Clementina Cantoni, 32, was freed after being held hostage for 24 days by a criminal gang member known as Timur Shah, a suspect in several incidents of robbery and kidnapping in the capital.
With a population of almost six million, Singapore's incidents of robbery were only a seventh of Boston's, which has a population of only 650,000.
Poparic was serving a nearly seven-year sentence for a 2009 jewelry store robbery in Neuchatel, and Albrecht, who police said has a long history of criminal activity, was serving seven years for his latest conviction in multiple incidents of robbery, kidnapping, arson and money-laundering.
However, incidents of robberies and thefts have remained higher in these areas due to increased nightlife activity and greater numbers of affluent residents.
Mr. Holmes, who the police said had been released from jail in early May and was living in a Wards Island homeless shelter, is suspected in a string of eight incidents of harassment, robbery or sexual assault that began on May 30 and took place between 83rd and 95th Streets and First and Fifth Avenues.
Of the 245 incidents of armed robbery on the high seas and piracy that occurred globally last year, 141 happened in Southeast Asia.
Police recorded a 5% increase in fraud to around 212,000 incidents - four times the rate of robbery in England and Wales.
Meshesha was taken into custody without incident at his Inglewood home on suspicion of robbery and is being held on $50,000 bail, LAPD officials said.
Roth will remain in custody while prosecutors decide whether to retry him on two counts of robbery stemming from a separate incident in August 2013, Risling said.
Knight and Williams were each charged last October with one count of robbery related to the Sept. 5, 2014, incident.
