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Thieves destroy Blue Devils Bingo building
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The Blue Devils Bingo building was robbed of the ATM which had $5,000 in it. It was robbed around 2:50am on August 10th, 2011. The robbery, which was caught on video, was perpetrated by two males. The following is the press release from the Concord Police Department:
CONCORD (August 10, 2011) – At approximately 3:00AM this morning, two suspects drove a pick up truck through the front glass windows of the Blue Devils Bingo Hall, 4065 Nelson Avenue. The businesses alarm was activated and an on duty security guard called the police department reporting a possible break-in.
Once inside the business the suspects quickly loaded an ATM machine into the back of the pick up truck and fled the scene prior to officers arriving.
At approximately 6:00 AM, officers from the California Highway Patrol located the pick up truck abandoned in a remote area of Alhambra Valley Road. The ATM machine was in the back of the truck and was empty. The pick up truck had been reported stolen locally back in June.
No further information is being released at this time to protect the integrity of the investigation.
Anyone with information about this case is asked to call Financial Crimes Unit Detective Greg Mahan at (925) 603-5814. Anyone wishing to remain anonymous can call the Concord Police Department Tip-line at (925) 603-5836.
You can check out Blue Devils bingo at BDbingo.com
Braddock Hills Bingo Bandit Escapes With Cash
1Braddock Hills Bingo Bandit Escapes With Cash – News Story – WPXI Pittsburgh.
Story about man who robbed a church bingo game and the priest that chased after him.
Pa. bingo bandit escapes with cash despite chase
1Police say an armed robber made off with a suburban Pittsburgh church’s bingo game proceeds despite a car and foot pursuit by its pastor.
The Rev. Thomas Burke says a young man held up the bingo game Tuesday night at Good Shepherd Church in Braddock Hills. The masked robbery flashed a gun and demanded money, netting a few hundred dollars.
Burke and at least one parishioner pursued the robber in a car then on foot into a wooded area where he escaped.
Police detained a suspect but he was released after witnesses couldn’t say if he was the perpetrator.
Burke says he was running on adrenaline when he decided to chase the robber and he probably wouldn’t do it again.
Arden Hills Bingo Hall Robbed
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The Ramsey County Sheriff’s Department has reported that the Pot O’Gold Bingo Hall was robbed at 1 a.m. last Saturday night.
The bingo hall is located at 3776 Connelly Ave. Two men came into the facility with guns and robbed the hall and made off with an undisclosed amount of cash. They fled the scene by running down an embankment and then driving off in a white SUV that had been waiting for them.
Later that morning a Roseville police officer saw the vehicle getting on Interstate 694 at Lexington Avenue. With help from the New Brighton police and the sheriff’s office, they pulled the vehicle over and arrested the four occupants.
The sheriff’s office state that cash and other items linking them to the robbery were located in the vehicle.
Robber uses pepper spray, gets $2K from bingo funds
1Robber uses pepper spray, gets $2K from bingo funds.
BATAVIA, Ohio (AP) – Police say a man blasted pepper spray into the face of a 66-year-old church volunteer in Batavia, then stole $2,000 in bingo proceeds.
Police say the man was leaving St. Elizabeth Ann Seton Church with funds raised through bingo games when he was accosted by a young man who demanded the money and then sprayed him.
Police in Miami Township think the robber knew bingo money would be taken out of the church after the night’s games.
It was meant to be deposited in a bank account. Police said the older man struggled and suffered minor injuries besides a burning sensation on his face in the Sunday night robbery.
Robbers hold up Milwaukee church bingo hall
0This is a repost of an article from the Milwaukee, Wisconsin Journal Sentinel. The original article can be found here.
More than 100 players scramble as gunmen enter
Aug. 13, 2010
By Jesse Garza
Masked, armed robbers terrorized players at a south side bingo hall Friday night when they stormed into the hall and began demanding women’s purses at gunpoint, witnesses and police said.
The robbery was reported shortly after 9 p.m. at the bingo hall for St. Rafael the Archangel parish at S. 31st St. and W. Lincoln Ave., said 2nd District Police Lt. Phil Henschel. No one was injured during the incident, which involved multiple robbers and multiple victims, Henschel said. The robbers escaped with an undetermined amount of cash, and police were searching for them late Friday, Henschel said.
More than 100 players were in the hall when the robbery took place, witnesses said.
Witnesses said as many as three robbers wearing Halloween masks stormed into the hall shortly after 9 p.m. and at least one was armed with what appeared to be a handgun. One woman who had not played bingo at the church hall in years said one of the robbers put a handgun to her daughter’s face before grabbing her purse and fleeing.
“Everybody was jumping up and getting down under the tables,” said Carolyn Townsend, 75.
Verdine Acosta, 55, said she saw several of the robbers approach from the back of the hall.
“The caller yelled to the people in the office to lock the doors and call 911,” she said.
Lisa Moonen, 45, said a woman seated next to her collapsed to the floor as other players began screaming and running toward the doors.
“It was really scary. Everyone in the place was shaking and screaming,” Moonen said.