armed robbery

The Boston Police Department is investigating after a man stole the cash register from a Roslindale restaurant in an armed robbery Friday afternoon. A man wearing a ski mask walked into the Arboretum Pizza and Grill around 4:30 p.m. The restaurant owner said off-camera that the man immediately walked behind the counter, pointed a gun at him and told him…

Police need help identifying a man accused of robbing a woman with a knife earlier this week in South Boston. The man allegedly followed a woman out of a convenience store at the corner of K Street and East 7th Street Tuesday evening and tried to grab her bag. The man flashed a knife during the alleged robbery, and punched…

Boston police are asking the public to let them know if you have any information or saw the incident happen.

A Fall River, Massachusetts man has been arrested and charged in connection with two alleged armed robberies this week in the city, according to the Fall River Police Department. Ronald Joncas, who is 56 years old, was arrested Tuesday after armed robberies on Sunday and Tuesday morning, Fall River police said in a news release. Officers responded to a report…

Two teenagers were arrested Friday night after they allegedly robbed a convenience store in Boston’s Jamaica Plain neighborhood while armed with a machete and baseball bat. Boston police were called to Blanco Market, located at 71 Day Street, around 7:50 p.m. Friday for an armed robbery in progress. Responding officers saw two teens running from the store towards Round Hill…

A bizarre car chase almost too hard to believe — except the whole thing was caught on camera — culminated in an armed robbery on the Upper East Side that earned thieves a hefty payday Saturday afternoon.

Five people robbed a convenience store in Exeter, New Hampshire with a handgun and what appeared to be an AR-15 style gun, according to police. The robbery happened before 3:30 a.m. Tuesday morning at the EZ Mart Shell station on Main Street after five suspects walked into the store. One of the suspects showed a handgun to the store clerk,…

A man stole over $20,000 in single dollar bills from a strip club in Providence, Rhode Island, according to a manager at the lounge.

A suspected robber is barricaded in a home in Salem, Massachusetts, near Salem State University, prompting police to urge the public to avoid the area near Broadway. The robbery, involving a dispute over a scooter, took place near Bowditch Hall, police said. One of the people involved in the robbery may have had a weapon and shown it. The robber…

A man wearing a surgical mask robbed someone at gunpoint last week on a trail in Wilmington, Massachusetts, police said Monday, releasing a sketch of the perpetrator. The robbery, which “appears to be an isolated incident,” took place behind the Wilmington Family Medical Center on Wednesday about 5:30 p.m., according to the Wilmington Police Department. Brandishing a gun, the man…

Investigators are looking for three men in connection with an armed robbery at a convenience store this weekend in Salem, New Hampshire. Police responded to the 7-Eleven store on Cluff Crossing Road after a panic alarm was raised around 12:15 a.m. Saturday. Sgt. Michael McCarthy of the Salem Police Department says this isn’t the first time the store has...

Officers responded to New World Gas Station at 270 Littleton Rd. around 9:30 p.m. Saturday, police said, where a clerk reported being robbed by a man brandishing a machete.

A man armed with a machete allegedly robbed a gas station Saturday night in Chelmsford, Massachusetts, police said, and a search is underway for the suspect. Chelmsford officers responded to New World Gas Station at 270 Littleton Rd. around 9:30 p.m. Saturday, police said, where a clerk reported being robbed by the man brandishing a machete. The clerk told officers…

Police have arrested a man accused of robbing two banks and leading police on a chase that prompted a multi-state criminal investigation earlier this week. Brandon Simmons, 34, last known to have lived in Seabrook, New Hampshire, is suspected in an armed robbery Monday morning in York, Maine. He is also accused in a separate robbery of a CVS Saturday…

Officials are still searching for a suspected armed bank robber who lead police in Massachusetts on a chase Monday, then crashed his car and fled on foot in Salisbury, prompting a multi-state criminal investigation. Police said the driver, identified as 34-year-old Brandon Simmons, last known to have lived in Seabrook, New Hampshire, is suspected in an armed robbery Monday morning…

A suspected armed bank robber leading police in Massachusetts on a chase crashed his vehicle and fled on foot in Salisbury Monday, officials said, as a multi-state criminal investigation got underway. People near Route 1 and Pleasant Street were being asked to use caution as officers in the air and on foot, as well as police dogs, searched for the…

On Saturday at around 9:45 p.m. police said they were called to a convenience store for a report of an armed robbery in Norwell, Massachusetts. Police said that during the robbery at the Quick-Pic convenience store on Main Street, the suspect displayed a handgun. A Quick-Pic employee was injured during the robbery and taken to a local hospital, according to…

The men claimed to know the victim’s friend, a person the homeowner trusted. But when she called the friend to confirm, things took a turn.

A Massachusetts man is under arrest following a string of armed robberies that occurred over the span of months in New Bedford, police said Sunday. Christopher Daponte, 43, of Acushnet, is accused of five armed robberies in New Bedford, a majority of which were committed at banks, according to a statement from city police. They say one person is involved…

Retired Department of Corrections Chaplain Peg Newman just has one request of Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker: change the world for one man, William Allen, who has spent the past 27 years in prison after participating in an armed robbery in which a person was killed. Newman, who worked closely with Allen for many years as his chaplain in prison, joined…