Sentences with phrase «at gunpoint»

Daniel Kessler wrote that he was showered with gasoline and held at gunpoint in Costa Rica after making his way onto a tiny fishing vessel and taping the illegal trafficking of shark fins.

was robbed at gunpoint by Floyd Hamilton and Huron «Terrible Ted» Walters; former partners in crime of Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow.

The group was formed Carlos Mimenza, a businessman, who saw one of his companies robbed at gunpoint in November.

A British man who runs a cryptocurrency trading firm was yesterday forced at gunpoint to hand over an unknown quantity of bitcoin.

It was all going so well until, like a sleek athlete suddenly brought up too fast by the sound of the gun from a false start, the race stopped for me when I was held at gunpoint on a business trip to Jakarta in 1997.

When Adam Ruch was kidnapped at gunpoint while playing DayZ, his first thought was to quit the game.

Two «Deadpool» fans were arrested at gunpoint while on their way to see in the new super-hero flick because one of them was donning a full - on Deadpool costume.

While the NBA and the players» association provide security at league events, players are on their own at outside shindigs, which is why Mavericks forward Antoine Walker — who was robbed at gunpoint of a $ 55,000 watch in Chicago four years ago — will spend $ 5,000 to have an armed bodyguard all weekend.

Uncorroborated reports have Manna's family of owners being held at gunpoint for several hours while a «SWAT» team served a search warrant, proceeded to turn the house upside down, and left with computers, cell phones and several thousands of dollars in food.

His career was also notable for a kidnapping incident during his first year with Barcelona, when he was abducted at gunpoint after a home game, spending 25 days in captivity...

As news of two European birdwatchers and their abduction from the Philippines recently hit the news and last week two American women and their Egyptian guide were abducted at gunpoint in Egypt, travelers have again been forced to think about what they should do if they are kidnapped while traveling.

A man suspected of robbing people at gunpoint in Brooklyn was fatally shot today by New York City police officers after exchanging gunfire with them, the authorities said.

A group of MS - 13 gang members and associates was arrested at gunpoint by Suffolk County police as they tried to abduct a 16 - year - old boy they believed belonged to a rival gang so they could kill him, authorities said.

Professional skier Jon Olsson's wildly - modified Audi RS6 was stolen at gunpoint from the current owner, and found burned to the ground in Amsterdam.

The government has demanded the immediate release of 15 British naval personnel taken hostage at gunpoint by Iran.

«A van containing seven dogs from a pet day care center was found after being stolen at gunpoint in the River West...

The car, laden with GoPro cameras, was taken at gunpoint from an Amsterdam gas station, where it was taken to a parking garage and burned to the ground.

The lies Ryan Lochte told around his alleged robbery at gunpoint, the Olympic pool turning green due to a chemical imbalance and a list of other missteps will forever define the Rio Olympics.

But that doesn't mean that he and his men are going to stop rounding up scared, haggard families at gunpoint.

From Associated Press, via The Boston Globe: «The lawyer who divulged President Bush's drunken - driving arrest days before the 2000 election was arrested at gunpoint yesterday after he was seen on a highway construction site carrying a toy gun while dressed in an Osama bin Laden costume.»

Two women are on the run from the FBI after they disguised themselves as nuns and attempted to rob a bank at gunpoint.

A 15 - year old girl has been reportedly raped at gunpoint by a police Inspector in Akwa Ibom state.

During a pre-taped interview, the Western Cape native talked about how her experience being held at gunpoint made her passionate about training women in self - defense.

BROOKLYN — A man raped two women and threatened a 15 - year - old girl at gunpoint during a terrifying two - hour spree in East New York on Tuesday morning, NYPD officials said.

District Attorney Thomas P. Zugibe stated that on or about March 1, 2013 at approximately 2:30 a.m., the defendants entered a dwelling at 605 Maplewood Gardens, Nanuet, NY, forcibly stole property from two victims at gunpoint.

Hip hop producer Scott Storch has been robbed at gunpoint outside a New York City hotel.The music mogul, who has worked with stars like Dr. Dre, 50...

You can build base, manage troops, and then come down to keep your enemy at gunpoint in the dynamic battle and customize your main characters.

These plans have been based, essentially, on Pinochet's plan imposed at gunpoint in Chile in 1974.

We'll worry about the moral implications when they are forced to play at gunpoint.

As long as mistrust prevails, people will be pulling money out of the system» sometimes even at gunpoint.»

A family of four row a boat toward the border of Vietnam and they are warned and held at gunpoint as they approach; other armed men on shore also threaten them.

The American swimmers who claimed they were assaulted at gunpoint over the weekend by assailants posing as police officers fabricated their account of the episode, according to Brazilian investigators.

As are the scenes of men and women being taken away at gunpoint with their mouths taped shut.

From the bad man's standpoint, obligations imposed by legislation or court decisions are no more deserving of respect than those imposed by a robber at gunpoint.

There is a Christian terrorist group called the NLFT in India that has forced Hindus to convert at gunpoint and desecrated their temples.

Were gangsters to demand at gunpoint that the dance - floor get filled, The Who, The Zombies, The Kinks, Love, The Beach Boys, etc., could deliver.

The general himself was detained at gunpoint and threatened with death.

Everyone over the age of about 35 has a memory of the Argentine occupation, whether that was being forced to drive on the «wrong» side of the road, hearing the sound of deadly Exocet missiles or children seeing their parents searched at gunpoint.

If you committed a violent crime, they're very likely to kick you out or call the local police to escort you out, possibly at gunpoint.

I have been going daily to feed them, but last week, I was hijacked at gunpoint at the property as I was locking the gate (took my car, laptop, phone, wallet etc etc) so I am reluctant to go there as often as I was.

Four teenagers suspected of taking turns raping an 18 - year - old woman at gunpoint at a Brooklyn playground after ordering her father to leave her side were taken into custody yesterday, the police said.

Commissioner of police in the state, Mr. Garba Umar, who paraded the suspects, said it recovered 11 exotic cars of various brands which were disposesed from their owners at gunpoint by the suspects.

Three 16 - year - old high school football players from Pennsylvania have been charged as adults with raping a 14 - year - old girl at gunpoint after she left a The CIES Football Observatory have published their top 100 most valuable players in the world, and Premier League talent features prominently

In 2011, I was robbed at gunpoint over cigarettes.

And honestly, neither do I want to get married to someone at gunpoint).

In the opening scenes of the new Bruce Willis movie, world - weary hostage negotiator Jeff Talley (Willis) lounges on his back beneath a sizzling Los Angeles sun, combing his grizzly beard with one hand while holding a telephone in the other, calmly reasoning with the jealous husband who's holding his unfaithful wife and young son at gunpoint in a house across the street.

So we've gone back to embrace the core elements of Call of Juarez — the historical Wild West, with its exploration of new territories, where you have those strong characters, those gunslingers, going into places where there is no justice and forging their own justice at gunpoint, building something new.