PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) 04/10 — Deputies in Portland, Oregon responded to a possible home invasion, but the intruder they found wasn’t alive or a person.
It was a robotic vacuum cleaner.
Category: Home Invasions
ALEXANDRIA, N.H. (AP) 04/04 — New Hampshire State Police say they’ve arrested a couple suspected in an armed home invasion.
A homeowner in Alexandria told police a man and a woman wearing ski masks entered Thursday,
By REBECCA SANTANA, Associated Press GONZALES, La. (AP) 01/28 — A 21-year-old man suspected of killing his parents and three other people — including a girl he was dating — was arrested Sunday when he drove up with a gun to his grandmother’s house in Virginia,
DETROIT (AP) 12/02 — Detroit police say a man who invaded a home on the city’s west side has been fatally shot by one of the residents.Read more »
By COLLEEN SLEVIN, Associated Press DENVER (AP) 08/03 — Thirty-three seconds after arriving at a suburban Denver home where a man had broken in and attacked an 11-year-old boy,
By COLLEEN SLEVIN, Associated Press AURORA, Colo. (AP) 08/02 — A decorated Vietnam War veteran woke up to the sound of his front door crashing in and saw a naked intruder attack his grandson,
AURORA, Colo. (AP) 07/31 — A man who fatally shot an intruder in his suburban Denver home early Monday was killed by responding officers who saw him holding a weapon,
HOUSTON (AP) 07/17 — A man suspected in three fatal shootings has been arrested in Houston.Authorities say 46-year-old Jose Gilberto Rodriguez was taken into custody Tuesday.Read more »
GOOCHLAND, Va. (AP) 06/26 — A New Zealand man who traveled to the U.S. home of a 14-year-old girl he had communicated with online was shot by the girl’s mother,Read more »
LONDON (AP) 04/06 — A 78-year-old British retiree who stabbed a burglar to death in his home will not face criminal charges, London police said Friday.Richard Osborn-Brooks was arrested on suspicion of murder after an altercation at his London home early Wednesday.Read more »
LONDON (AP) 04/04 — British police say a 78-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of murder for allegedly stabbing a burglar who had broken into his home.Read more »
By DAVID McFADDEN, Associated Press BALTIMORE (AP) 02/13 — Baltimore’s latest police corruption saga could be tough to sell as a TV crime drama, short on heroes and too extreme to attract loyal viewers.
By DAVID McFADDEN, Associated Press BALTIMORE (AP) 02/09 — Jurors started deliberating Thursday in a case involving one of the worst U.S. police corruption scandals in recent memory after hearing nearly three weeks of testimony from drug dealers,
By DAVID McFADDEN, Associated Press BALTIMORE (AP) 01/31 — An indicted ex-detective broke down in tears in a Baltimore courtroom while testifying about a car wreck he said was set in motion by a corrupt police unit initiating a chase despite a policy against high-speed pursuits.
By ARITZ PARRA and COLLEEN BARRY, Associated Press MADRID (AP) 12/15 — Spanish authorities on Friday arrested a homicide suspect wanted for months by Italy after three people were killed a day earlier in Spain,
By JOHN ROGERS, Associated Press LOS ANGELES (AP) 11/20 — In the summer of 1969, a scruffy ex-convict with a magnetic hold on young women sent some of his disciples into the night to carry out a series of gruesome killings in Los Angeles.
BOSTON (AP) 10/28 — Four Boston police officers have been cleared of any wrongdoing in the fatal shooting of a man who opened fire on them last year.Read more »
SPARTANBURG, S.C. (AP) 10/28 — A South Carolina man remains behind bars after being shot four times in his buttocks while police say he was trying to rob a woman in her home.
LAPLACE, La. (AP) 09/14 — A Louisiana homeowner has shot and killed a man accused of breaking into his house.
Local news outlets report the 32-year-old told authorities he opened his backdoor after hearing people talking in his yard Tuesday night.
DAVE COLLINS, Associated Press CHESHIRE, Conn. (AP) 07/17 — It’s a day seared into the memories of all involved: The July 23, 2007, home invasion in which two paroled burglars broke into a Cheshire,