Robbery, Crime Against The Elderly | featured news

Riverside County sheriff's investigators are asking for the public's help in finding a suspect who pistol-whipped a 93-year-old woman and her caretaker during a home-invasion robbery in the small town of Nuevo.

An elderly Michigan woman watched helplessly as a girl broke into her apartment. Seventy nine-year-old Florence of Ferndale, Mich., is confined to a scooter because of Polio. So she couldn't do much when a 12-year-old girl broke into her apartment Friday.

Pepper spray has been flying off the shelves in the central Texas towns where a series of rapes and robberies of elderly women have been occuring in the past year.