DATELINES

Jul 1, 2001 12:00 PM

Fort Worth, Texas — A man entered a Taco Bell restaurant in Fort Worth, Texas, after midnight on a Monday night in June, brandished a weapon and demanded all of the cash in the cash register. He then ordered a chalupa to go. While one Taco Bell employee prepared the chalupa, a colleague called the police, according to ABCNews.com. When the police arrived, the man was at the drive-thru window, waiting for his chalupa. He was arrested and charged with aggravated robbery.

Marathon, Fla. — A man robbed the TIB bank in the Florida Keys on a Thursday in late June, disguised by only a large pair of sunglasses. The robber threatened the bank teller with a steak knife, according to The Miami Herald. The man, a balding, 40-year-old with brown hair, was caught on the bank's CCTV cameras and is still at large.

Baltimore — A landlord convicted of secretly videotaping two female tenants in their home is being sued by the two women for invasion of privacy. The women are seeking $1.5 million in damages for trespassing, fraud and misrepresentation, reports The Baltimore Sun. They also claim the videotaping has caused them “emotional distress.” In court papers, the women claim that they never gave permission to the landlord to place pinhole cameras in the rooms they rented in his house. Police seized 18 videotapes showing the women taking their clothes off and getting into the shower.

Paris — Burglars broke into the offices of luxury-goods maker Louis Vuitton and stole computers that could contain designs for future fashion collections, according to Agence France Presse. Detectives in Paris are investigating a robbery that took place on June 10 in which burglars got around a sophisticated security system to steal the computers. They are believed to hold details of fashion designs, closely guarded secrets in the competitive world of fashion.

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