Bank Robber News

Vienna - A bank robber with a pistol and a home-made bomb picked the wrong bank to rob in Austria Monday when an 82-year-old grandmother struck him with her handbag and ripped his mask off, shouting: "if you want money get a job!"

A 49-year-old man faces felony charges after attempting to rob three New York banks, armed with a toilet plunger, local police say.

Forty-nine-year-old Lawrence Deptola had an unusual choice of a weapon to use during his alleged crime. He attempted to rob three separate banks, but was highly unsuccessful.

Parana - A video showing a bumbling bank robber caught by a closed-circuit tv camera shooting himself in the foot while guarding the door in a bank heist has went viral after being featured on the Internet.

Toronto - He's young, brazen and violent. Toronto Police are dealing with a bank robber who has hit 15 banks since May. He's gotten away with it so far but the police are narrowing in.

When Helen Dunsford went to an Oakland Park, Florida branch of Bank of America Friday she didn't expect to become a hero. The cancer patient is credited for tackling a woman who tried to rob the bank.

December was a busy month for an alleged bank robber in the Halton Region of Ontario, with three robberies under his belt. That third robbery proved to be his undoing with his arrest shortly afterward.

Toronto - Toronto Police have released a photo of an alleged bank robber who has hit four banks in the Greater Toronto Area between August 27 and September 2.

Toronto - A man accused of as many as 20 armed retail and bank robberies since March this year has been arrested by Toronto Police.

A dumb robber was arrested after giving the bank an advance warning that he was on his way to rob them and they had better have his money ready and waiting for his arrival.