Two people from Fall River were arrested and charged in a New Year's Day armed home invasion and robbery in which police say the suspects knew the victims.
A store employee told police, when she confronted the robbers in the parking lot and asked them to pay for the items they stole, one of the robbers lifted his shirt to reveal the butt of a handgun tucked in his pants.
A 24-year-old Brockton man who robbed three separate convenience store clerks on the same night in July 2015 was convicted at trial and sentenced to serve six to eight years in state prison last Thursday in Fall River Superior Court.
A Taunton man who two years ago shot a liquor store clerk during a failed robbery attempt in Taunton was sentenced to serve five to seven years in state prison.