robbery

NEW BEDFORD - A Taunton woman says she was robbed in a parking lot on Coggeshall Street Monday afternoon. The 32-year-old woman told police she parked her car before 5 P.M. in a lot at Belleville Avenue and Coggeshall Street, and was walking to a nearby restaurant when she was approached by two men, one of them armed with a knife...

NEW BEDFORD - New Bedford Police are investigating an armed robbery in the South End. The 27-year-old male employee at Rent-A-Center on Dartmouth Street told police two men came into the store just after 6 P.M. Wednesday demanding money...

New Bedford Police are investigating a break-in at a popular downtown New Bedford eatery. No Problemo, located at 813 Purchase Street, had its front window smashed in with cobblestone, and the cash register was stolen. Police got the call at 11:19 p...

Police are investigating after a 40-year-old woman had her purse snatched Monday on Collette Street. The woman told police she was walking in the area when a male approached her from behind and grabbed the strap of her purse, breaking it...

NEW BEDFORD - A man was reportedly beaten and robbed in the North End early Monday. The victim told police he was walking in the area of Arlington and Bates Streets when he was grabbed from behind and assaulted. The victim said his assailants stole his phone, hat, and sneakers...

BOSTON (AP) _ The former Army reservist charged with escaping from a Rhode Island prison and spending five days on the lam before he was caught in Massachusetts is in more legal trouble. Federal prosecutors say 35-year-old James Morales now faces two charges of attempted bank robbery...

The former Dartmouth man who committed five armed robberies across New Bedford last May has been sentenced to serve four-to-10 years in state prison, the Bristol County District Attorney's Office announced Thursday. Thirty-three-year-old Rashaun Burgess pleaded guilty last Friday to three counts of armed robbery, two counts of armed assault to rob and one count of larceny over $250...

NEW BEDFORD—Twenty-nine year-old Josue Alexis Castro was arrested Sunday in connection with the attempted armed robberies of Subway restaurant, 836 Pleasant St. earlier in the day and Sunstar Grocery, 639 County St., the day before. Police received a report of an attempted robbery at Subway at 4:15 p...

NEW BEDFORD - Police are investigating an armed robbery Tuesday night at JC's Corner Variety Store, located at 377 Cedar Street in New Bedford. Police were called to the store at 7:48 p.m. when a clerk reported that two men entered the store armed with a suspected firearm...

NEW BEDFORD - Police are stepping up patrols after three armed robberies, believed to be related, at local convenience stores. Two of the robberies happened on back-to-back days at the same location. At 7:24 a.m. Saturday, Jan. 14, police received a report of armed robbery at the XtraMart at 117 Durfee St...