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A man who held several people hostage overnight at a Bakersfield Chase Bank was shot and killed by FBI officers in an officer-involved shooting, ending the standoff. Two hostages were released Tuesday, and the remaining hostages were freed on Wednesday unharmed; police had responded to a bomb threat and closed nearby buildings as negotiators worked to resolve the situation.
The FBI and Bakersfield Police Department ended a hostage situation at a Chase building in Bakersfield after a bomb threat, with all 10 hostages freed and the suspect identified by authorities.
A suspect barricaded inside a downtown Chase Bank in Bakersfield with several hostages, triggering an hours-long standoff. The suspect has agreed to release two hostages, and no injuries have been reported. SWAT teams, hostage negotiators and a bomb squad are on scene as the FBI assists; nearby buildings were evacuated and the public is urged to avoid the area while the investigation continues.
Two months into his papacy, Pope Leo XIV tried to update his bank records by phone but was told he would need to visit a branch; after a brief exchange in which he hinted at his papal identity, the teller hung up. The anecdote, recounted by his friend Father Tom McCarthy, shows that even the pope can face mundane bureaucratic hassles, with no Vatican comment forthcoming.
The US has approved a new bank backed by billionaires with connections to Donald Trump, highlighting ongoing developments in the financial sector involving influential figures.
Circle is applying to the OCC to establish a national trust bank to oversee its USDC reserves and offer digital asset custody services, aligning with new regulations and strengthening its infrastructure, without serving individual consumers.
Brazilian police have detained a woman who allegedly wheeled a dead man, claiming to be her uncle, to a bank in Rio de Janeiro to withdraw a $3,000 loan. The woman was seen in a viral video attempting to get the unresponsive man to sign the paperwork, but bank attendants eventually called an ambulance, which determined that the man had been dead for hours. Police are investigating the incident and trying to establish the relationship between the woman and the deceased man, while the family's lawyer disputes the police's account.
A woman in Brazil is accused of taking a dead man, who she claimed was her uncle and caregiver, to a bank in an attempt to secure a loan. The man was found dead in a wheelchair, and the woman is now facing charges of theft by fraud and abusing a corpse. The incident, captured on video, has sparked widespread attention and raised questions about the woman's relationship with the deceased and the circumstances of his death.
A Brazilian woman was arrested after attempting to co-sign a loan with a corpse she wheeled into a bank, claiming it was her uncle. Video footage shows her propping up the dead man's head and trying to get him to sign the loan agreement, despite bank employees expressing concern about his condition. The woman may face charges including fraud, embezzlement, and abuse of a corpse, while an investigation continues into the circumstances of the man's death and the woman's relationship to him.
A woman in Brazil attempted to secure a loan at a bank by wheeling in a deceased man in a wheelchair and trying to get him to sign for it, but the man had been dead for hours. Security footage showed her attempting to move his hand to sign and speaking to him as if he were alive. Bank staff became suspicious and alerted the police, who arrested the woman on the spot and charged her with fraud.
A woman in Brazil wheeled the corpse of an elderly man into a bank in Rio de Janeiro in an attempt to secure a loan, leading to her arrest on fraud charges after suspicious bank staff questioned the man's well-being and called the police.
A Brazilian woman, Érika de Souza Vieira, was arrested after attempting to take out a bank loan using her deceased uncle, Paulo Roberto Braga, as a signatory. Bank employees became suspicious and alerted the authorities when they noticed Braga's lifeless appearance. Vieira has been charged with violating a corpse and attempted theft through fraud, while her lawyer maintains her innocence, claiming that Braga was alive when they arrived at the bank. The police are investigating the incident and looking into Vieira's relationship to the deceased man.
A Brazilian woman, Erika de Souza Vieira Nunes, was caught on video wheeling the corpse of an elderly man into a Rio de Janeiro bank in an attempt to co-sign a loan for $3,400. She addressed the deceased as her "uncle" and tried to get him to sign financial documents, despite his obvious state of death. Bank staff called the police, who arrested Nunes, and it was later revealed that the man had been dead for several hours prior to the incident. Authorities are investigating the circumstances of the man's death and looking into whether Nunes is actually his niece, as well as the involvement of other relatives in the alleged attempt to commit bank fraud.
Joshua McCullough, a 60-year-old Warwick man, was arrested and charged with first-degree robbery and felony assault for allegedly stealing $12,665 from a woman at a North Providence bank. McCullough, who has a criminal history including a previous murder charge, was identified through surveillance footage and arrested after a search warrant was executed at his home. He was held without bail and the case was referred to a grand jury.
Two women in Ohio have been charged with gross abuse of a corpse and theft after allegedly driving the body of an 80-year-old man to a bank to withdraw money from his account before dropping his body off at a hospital.