Sentence examples for robberies law from inspiring English sources

Despite the long documented use of pellet guns in robberies, law enforcement officials said they could not remember a person dying from being shot by one of the weapons.

Their argument is like bank robbers complaining that the bank robbery laws only apply to them.

His extensive travels were also financed by property crime, including at least two armed bank robberies that law enforcement authorities have confirmed.

On average, he made about $150 from each robbery, a law enforcement official said.

In August 1938 Waugh, with Laura, made a three-month trip to Mexico after which he wrote Robbery under Law, based on his experiences there.

The New York Police Department has informed the Federal Bureau of Investigation that it plans to pull all six of its detectives from a joint task force that investigates armed bank robberies, according to law enforcement officials with knowledge of the plan.

Mr. Jamison's undoing began in May, with the arrest of a 37-year-old woman -- identified by investigators as his sister -- in two bodega robberies in Sheepshead Bay, law enforcement officials said.

Robbery, in criminal law, an aggravated form of theft that involves violence or the threat of violence against a victim in his presence.

In his statement, Mr. Jamison said that the two men were present during the robbery and killing, law enforcement officials said.

But the rise in smuggling and armed robberies forced the law-and-order interior minister, Nicolas Sarkozy, to propose a tobacconist protection plan last weekend "in order not to let down this profession".

Marijuana advocates complain that robberies are underreported because law enforcement officials focus more on confiscating marijuana from the growers than on arresting the thieves.