Gilbert Police are searching for a man who robbed a Circle K on Monday.

A man is suspected of returning to a convenience store multiple times Sunday and stealing beer, cigarettes and lighters and throwing cookies and brownies at the cashier, whom he also grabbed and hit.

Authorities say a 74-year-old man is in custody for allegedly robbing a fast-food restaurant in Gilbert.

A 21-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of robbery after police say he hit a Target cashier in the face and tried to steal $362 from her register on Sunday afternoon.

Police are searching for a man who robbed a Mesa Little Caesars Pizza located at 1118 N. Recker Road Saturday.

A Tempe man turned himself in to Chandler police Monday at the urging of a relative who saw a news report that he was wanted in a kidnapping.

An attempted robbery at a Mesa Walgreens was foiled Wednesday by two men who both felt the same urge to help.

Filiberto’s Mexican restaurant at Gilbert and Baseline roads has agreed to settle a sexual harassment lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) that alleged a teen-ager was subject to sexual harassment, including unwanted touching, by one of the cooks while working as a cashier.

A robber got away with cash at a Taco Bell drive-through Sunday. According to Mesa police, two men in an older model 4-door sedan pulled up to the pay window at 1125 S. Dobson Road and pointed a gun that was larger than a pistol but shorter than a rifle at the cashier.

Gilbert Police are searching for a man who robbed at Walgreens, early last Thursday morning.

An armed robbery at a Del Taco in Ahwatukee Foothills ended with an easy arrest Wednesday, police said. 

A Mesa woman was sentenced to more than two years in federal prison for stealing more than $600,000 from her former employer where she worked as an office manager.

A former federal investigator pleaded guilty Tuesday to bank fraud and forgery.

Three masked robbers soaked a Mesa check cashing business with gasoline and set it on fire Friday, the fifth in a recent string of such crimes that are growing increasingly violent, police said.

November 13, 2004

Our View: Imagine a room filled with people to whom we might pay money in the course of a given year (and depending on your lifestyle and sense of frugality, it could get pretty crowded). Now narrow your focus on three people in particular: a supermarket cashier, an apparel salesperson and a real estate agent.

A catering truck was the target of a Queen Creek-area robbery Tuesday when three armed men demanded money and swiped a number of energy drinks from the vehicle, authorities say.