Sentence examples for robbery capital from inspiring English sources

"Welcome to the bank robbery capital of America": Renner plays a troubled criminal in this crime drama directed by and starring Ben Affleck.

There are 900 miles of highway in sprawling LA, which helped to make it the bank robbery capital of the world in the 1990s: "every city blooms with the kinds of crime most appropriate to its form".

That was the same year that Los Angeles, once considered the bank robbery capital of the U.S., lost that distinction to Atlanta.

How glamorous can you get?" Shayne's flair for theatrics meant that he stood out even in Montreal, a city that had become home to as many as 900 bank heists annually, and was once labeled by the LA Times as "the bank robbery capital of North America".

The Federal Bureau of Investigation, which has a special squad stationed in the city just for this, dubs LA "the bank-robbery capital of the world".

According to police statistics for 2010, the most recent available, street robberies in the capital doubled compared with 2009, robberies of taxi drivers nearly quadrupled and homicides were up 50 percent.

Armando Guebuza, the president, hears of a bank robbery in the capital and asks, "How is that possible?

In fact, these elements are inextricably linked.Between 1994 and 1995, the number of serious crimes, such as violent robbery, in the capital rose by 52%, and in 1996 by another 15%.

On Tuesday the Met launched a campaign to cut street robbery in the capital.

Mobile phones now make up 70 per cent of personal robberies in the capital.

In Mexico city's Federal District, the better-off part of the capital, robberies have almost doubled since 1994.