How to Use armed robbery in a Sentence

armed robbery

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  • The men were each indicted on six counts of armed robbery.
    — Monica Mercuri, Forbes, 5 Sep. 2024
  • What resulted was an armed robbery and a shootout with police.
    — Pilar Arias, Fox News, 19 Sep. 2024
  • Chavarria is accused of first-degree murder and armed robbery after a drug deal ended with one person dead and one injured last year.
    — Vivian Barrett, The Arizona Republic, 9 Aug. 2024
  • Rod, too, had problems on the streets and was charged with armed robbery at 15.
    — Carl Lamarre, Billboard, 8 Dec. 2023
  • He was sentenced to life in prison for armed robbery with a firearm and assault with a firearm.
    — Ray Sanchez, CNN, 18 Oct. 2023
  • Since then, he’s also been convicted of theft and armed robbery in the U.S.
    — Bradford Betz, Fox News, 7 Dec. 2023
  • The suspect has served prison time for armed robbery, Schierbaum said.
    — Emily Shapiro, ABC News, 11 June 2024
  • Suspects in an armed robbery got their vehicle stolen in the middle of the heist.
    — Elizabeth Both, NBC News, 18 Dec. 2023
  • Woods was on probation for armed robbery at the time of his arrest.
    — Kim Bellware, Washington Post, 3 Oct. 2023
  • He was also charged with armed robbery for stealing a phone from Rosado’s home the night of the murders.
    — David Goodhue, Miami Herald, 15 May 2024
  • Simpson served nine years in a Nevada prison for armed robbery.
    — Jocelyn Noveck, Fortune, 28 Apr. 2023
  • Chavarria was booked on one count of first-degree murder and one count of armed robbery.
    — Vivian Barrett, The Arizona Republic, 9 Aug. 2024
  • Just over a year before Renteria-Hobbs’ killing, Cole was sentenced in an armed robbery.
    — Nick Ferraro, Twin Cities, 18 Jan. 2024
  • Two Lake Station men are facing an armed robbery charge for taking $50 off a customer in a drug deal.
    — Meredith Colias-Pete, Chicago Tribune, 30 June 2023
  • Thomas was convicted of two counts of first-degree murder, two counts of armed robbery and one count of burglary.
    — Perry Vandell, The Arizona Republic, 9 May 2024
  • The plea was accepted and an armed robbery charge is to be dismissed at sentencing Sept. 25.
    — Christina Hall, Detroit Free Press, 10 Sep. 2024
  • Boyce faces charges including one count of armed robbery and one count of being a felon in possession of a handgun.
    — Natalie Neysa Alund, USA TODAY, 26 June 2023
  • He’d been wrongfully convicted of armed robbery and sentenced to life in prison in 2004.
    — Char Adams, NBC News, 19 Oct. 2023
  • The officers had responded to a report of an armed robbery at a gas station.
    — Meredith Deliso, ABC News, 28 July 2023
  • He was convicted of armed robbery and kidnapping and sent to a rural prison in Nevada.
    — Corina Knoll, New York Times, 9 June 2024
  • The station reports that the police chase began after an armed robbery.
    — Greg Norman, Fox News, 2 Aug. 2024
  • In December, the company closed its Navy Yard store abruptly about two weeks after an armed robbery at the store.
    — Meghan Hall, Sourcing Journal, 24 July 2024
  • In a separate case the next year, a 15-year-old boy was charged with armed robbery in connection with the theft of two French bulldogs at gunpoint just east of downtown.
    — Dennis Romero, NBC News, 30 Jan. 2024
  • Don Cheadle is the latest actor to sign on to the drama, which tracks an armed robbery (and its fallout) on the night of Muhammad Ali’s 1970 comeback fight in Atlanta.
    — Rick Porter, The Hollywood Reporter, 5 Feb. 2024
  • Phelps was arrested Wednesday on charges of felony murder, armed robbery and abandonment of a body, jail records show.
    — Henri Hollis, ajc, 15 Sep. 2023
  • Police in Rocklin announced the arrest of an 18-year-old after an armed robbery took place Friday.
    — Vincent Medina, Sacramento Bee, 15 July 2024
  • More than a decade later, in 2008, Simpson was convicted and sentenced to prison for felony armed robbery and kidnapping.
    — Sean Neumann, Peoplemag, 16 Apr. 2024
  • Moss has a hearing scheduled next month on armed robbery charges in Carroll County, according to court records.
    — Dillon Mullan, Baltimore Sun, 24 May 2024
  • Milwaukee police said the 16-year-old was one of two people attempting an armed robbery.
    — Sophie Carson, Journal Sentinel, 11 Aug. 2023
  • The 64-year-old man, who decades earlier was convicted on armed robbery charges, was serving a 63-year prison sentence in Arizona.
    — Abdallah Fayyad, Vox, 6 May 2024

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