Sentences with word «knifepoint»

The fact that people who pay thousands of dollars a month in rent to live in an upscale community are being held at knifepoint at all is the underlying problem here.
During a three ‐ day trial, several witnesses outlined the details of knifepoint robbery.
SYDNEY MORNING HERALD — Sept 23 — At least four Sydney men have been abducted and robbed at knifepoint in an internet dating scam in the past week, police say.
The Brazilian woman, who was in the UK on a visitors visa, was robbed at knifepoint by five men at a premises in Enfield in the early hours of June 24th.
Manchester police arrested the man they say threatened and attempted to rob Meals on Wheels volunteer at knifepoint as she sat in a parked car Tuesday.
It has emerged that former Liverpool midfielder Jordon Ibe was robbed at knifepoint last month.
A female Chicago Park District employee was sexually assaulted at knifepoint late Thursday at a park on the city's West Side, police and Park District officials said.
Yet on his watch, knife thugs are spared jail, while robberies at knifepoint rose by ten per cent in the year to the end of September.
Dockery's man has killed Otto's hired hitman, Marius and Lance are being held at knifepoint with no clue as to what's going down, and Audrey is frantically calling Marius» phone in the hopes of finding out that their plan went off without a hitch.
At least four Sydney men have been abducted and robbed at knifepoint in an internet dating scam in the past week, police say.
Tuzman described his prison time to the New York Times as a harrowing ordeal: The former CEO claims he was abused, raped, and threatened at knifepoint by Colombian authorities.
The fact that people who pay thousands of dollars a month in rent to live in an upscale community are being held at knifepoint at all is the underlying problem here.
Or sneaking into anyone's home and abducting a young girl at knifepoint?
Stranger rape at knifepoint is worse.
Julio Diaz found himself in the position of many New Yorkers when he was robbed at knifepoint.
Bring to the boil and simmer for around 15 mins until squash is cooked through, it should be tender to the knifepoint.
That's like a rape victim who was almost beaten to death and left for dead in a trash bag telling a woman who was held at knifepoint and raped but otherwise unharmed that she shouldn't feel traumatized because it was so much worse for her.
The number of robberies at knifepoint has increased by 18 per cent, official figures revealed today.
Authorities say McBryde abducted the teen girl from her home at knifepoint and forced her into an empty house on Lathrop, where he threatened her with the knife and several guns.
Rockland County District Attorney Thomas P. Zugibe announced this week that 30 - year - old Andrew Baxter of 37 Memorial Park Drive, Spring Valley, New York was convicted after a jury trial of one count of robbery in the first degree, a class «B» felony; one count of robbery in the second degree, a class «C» felony; and one count of criminal possession of a weapon in the fourth degree, a class «A» misdemeanor relating to a knifepoint robbery in Spring Valley.
They dug through her past, questioning her about times when she had been held up at knifepoint and gunpoint and nearly killed in a domestic dispute.
To tease out how REM sleep — during which most dreaming takes place — affects our emotions, the Canadian researchers showed disturbing images (such as gory scenes or a women being forced into a van at knifepoint) to a group of healthy volunteers just before they went to bed.
Alabama authorities are investigating a video posted to Facebook by a prison inmate that showed two prisoners forcing a third at knifepoint to bend over for a spanking.
James Stewart actually bursts into tears in the final scene of The Naked Spur (1953), and Gary Cooper in Man of the West (1958) comes close to doing the same when he punishes an outlaw who forced Julie London at knifepoint to strip by tearing off the man's clothes.
When David is robbed at knifepoint, his lonely, rundown life is made that much worse by his muculent boss (Ed Helms), who uses the situation to force David to smuggle a «smidge» of pot across the Mexico - United States border.
Alabama authorities are investigating a Facebook video posted by a prison inmate, showing two prisoners forcing a third at knifepoint to bend over for a spanking.
As Curtis walks away Gerry suddenly finds himself held at knifepoint, the perp insisting that he knows that Gerry came away with some winnings, and demands the cash.
Now these are perhaps not very smart criminals, given the cameras on an ATM and the fact that most ATM cards have cash withdrawal limits, so the reward in this scenario is quite limited, but the IQ of the guy holding you at knifepoint is not really at issue here.
Rather, everything you find and harvest, every piece of information you cajole out of a guard at knifepoint, every single weapon and vehicle you commandeer works toward a unified goal: success.
Now these are perhaps not very smart criminals, given the cameras on an ATM and the fact that most ATM cards have cash withdrawal limits, so the reward in this scenario is quite limited, but the IQ of the guy holding you at knifepoint is not really at issue here.
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