Courier robberies were reported in San Francisco and Los Angeles on Jan . 14and Jan . 15 respectively.
No bank robberies were reported nearby -- banks were closed yesterday because it was Sunday.
No major robberies were reported in the days before the box's appearance.
Nine similar robberies were reported, mostly in the Parkchester neighborhood, between early August and early November, the police said.
In the security vacuum created by protesting officers, sporadic robberies were reported at supermarkets and at banks, in the capital and in Guayaquil, a large coastal commercial city.
He said he had worked around the clock, gone to locations where robberies were reported, looked for suspects, conferred with prosecutors and schooled rookie officers in the law, all in an attempt to count things conservatively, but accurately.
While 44 bank robberies were reported in the six counties that make up northern New Jersey in all of 2006, for example, there were 44 through last Sunday, on pace for 75 robberies this year, said Steven Siegel, an F.B.I. bank robbery coordinator in Newark.
In a suburb with a relatively low crime rate — in 2007, no murders and only 15 robberies were reported in this village — why would a man rob a women's clothing store not long after opening time when there was a bank nearby, they asked.
With the recession in the mix and knowing from past recessions such as in 2001 where record numbers of robberies were reported, it is no surprise that everyone is on edge.
The robbery was reported to local officials on Thursday night.
