Woman stabbed during failed mugging (From Your Local Guardian) - Croydon Guardian
27 May 2012, 11:26 pm
A woman has been stabbed in both arms during a botched mugging. Police are appealing for help after a 39-year-old woman was attacked after getting off a train at East Croydon in the early hours of Sunday morning. The victim had made her way onto Morland ...

Woman stabbed in Croydon during mugging - Croydon Advertiser
27 May 2012, 11:04 pm
A WOMAN was stabbed in Croydon in the early hours of Sunday morning in what police are describing as a mugging gone wrong. The victim, who has not been named by police but is said to be 39, got off at train at East Croydon station at about 12.30am after a ...

Woman Stabbed In Botched mugging - lbc.co.uk
27 May 2012, 8:05 pm
A man approached the woman to ask what the time was. He then asked for money, stabbing her in both arms after she tried to run away. The victim remains in hospital in a stable condition. The suspect is described a black man in his late teens, approx 6ft ...

Two convicted of mugging vet on Veterans Day after following him home from Broomfield grocery store - broomfieldenterprise.com
25 May 2012, 5:23 pm
A man and a woman were convicted last week of mugging a Marine Corps veterans, whom they had followed home from a Broomfield grocery store on Veterans Day. Jose Luis Pizarro, 33, of Greeley, and Jill Erickson, 41, of Arvada, were convicted in ...

Second suspect nabbed in blind woman's mugging - New York Post
23 May 2012, 2:05 pm
The second of three suspects who mugged a blind woman in a Forest Hills subway station has been nabbed, police said. Cops arrested Latisha Richardson, 39, today and charged her with grand larceny, possession of stolen property and jostling for allegedly ...

Shameless: Drug addict who injured pensioner, 75, in handbag mugging attack blames victim for not letting go of her purse - Daily Mail
22 May 2012, 9:27 am
A ‘despicable’ mugger who injured a frail grandmother while robbing her of her purse blamed the elderly victim for her injuries - because she refused to let go. Vile heroin addict Rebecca Oxley, 36, pulled 75-year-old Irene Bracewell to the floor as ...

Man guilty in mugging death of WW II veteran - Orange County Register
21 May 2012, 5:13 pm
SANTA ANA – An Orange County jury Monday found a 30-year-old man guilty of killing a 77-year-old Army veteran who was mugged and later slipped into a coma. The jury of 11 women and one man deliberated about two days before finding John Kirk ...

Pleasanton park mugging solved with help of police dog - Pleasanton Weekly
18 May 2012, 1:06 pm
A mugging at a park -- a rarity in Pleasanton -- was quickly solved with the help of a police dog, according to a police report. The incident took place just before 1 a.m. May 11 at Creekside Park in the 5600 block of West Las Positas Boulevard, when a man ...

Video of violent mugging near MacDill Air Force Base brings offers of help - St. Petersburg Times
17 May 2012, 7:17 am
TAMPA — The plight of an Army sergeant viciously beaten over a wallet and cell phone is eliciting offers to help as a surveillance video of the mugging spreads nationally. Sgt. Johnny Aparicio, 24, was new to town. Less than a month ago, he ...

Ex-Jeannette postal supervisor pleads guilty to lying about fake mugging - PITTSBURGH TRIBUNE-REVIEW
14 May 2012, 5:14 pm
A Hempfield man pleaded guilty on Monday in federal court to staging an assault and robbery on Postal Service property while he was a supervisor at the Jeannette Post Office. Jeffrey A. Gogets, 51, of 35 Mohawk Drive pleaded guilty to a charge ...