Three suspects were arrested in connection with the robbery and triple killing in the rural community of Farmville, N.C., the Pitt County Sheriff’s Office said Wednesday.

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The crime took place Sunday night at a convenience store on a sparsely populated road as three employees — the teen son of the owner and his two cousins — were preparing to close for the night. A customer discovered the shooting victims shortly after the perpetrators left, around 10 p.m.

The bloody crime shook this normally quiet community. Farmville has a population of about 4,500 and is more than an hour's drive east of Raleigh. County and town law enforcers had been on a 24/7 manhunt before the arrests.

Sheriff Neil Elks announced the arrests of the two men and an unnamed juvenile Wednesday morning: Antwan Andre Anthony, 29, of Bethel; Xavier Montel Shamble, 19, of Farmville; and a Farmville juvenile were brought in late Tuesday night for questioning. 

Each was charged with three counts of murder on Wednesday morning, and each was charged with other charges, including first-degree kidnapping, robbery and possession of firearm by a felon.

The three victim, whose families came from Yemen, were Mokbel Mohamed Almujanhi, 16 — known at his high school as "Sam" — Nabil Nasser Saeed Al’mogannahi, 26, and Gaber Alawi, 24.

In the surveillance tape, the three men did not appear to put up any kind of resistance to the robbers, said Christy Wallace, public information director for the Sheriff’s Office.

"There wasn’t anything they could have done differently," she said.

Surveillance cameras in the Hustle Mart store captured the crimes in graphic "very disturbing" detail, according to Wallace, though faces of the perpetrators were covered or obscured.

The family did not know the three people arrested, according to a report by the local Daily Reflector that cited Tony Muhssen, a spokesman for the victims’ family.

"The family is still trying to recover from all of this, but it is a great relief," he told the paper, referring to the arrests.

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Three Occupy Oakland protesters accused of surrounding and taunting a woman before stealing her wallet were charged on Friday with robbery and hate crimes, authorities said.

Michael Davis, 32, Nneka Crawford, 23, and Randolph Wilkins, 24, confronted the woman on the streets of Oakland in February after she told them not to riot, the Oakland Police said in a written release.

According to a report by NBC Bay Area, police said the woman was crossing the street from a Wells Fargo bank when she noticed a group of Occupy protesters calling for a riot. She allegedly told them not to riot in her neighborhood and was then surrounded.

"She was surrounded by three protesters and battered as they yelled vulgar epithets regarding their perception of her sexual orientation," Oakland Police spokeswoman Johnna Watson said.

The female victim was not identified except as a 20-year resident of the neighborhood.

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"Her wallet was taken during the crime," Watson said. "The victim broke away from the group and called police, who were able to arrest one suspect near the scene."

Watson said the other two suspects were arrested at a February 29 Occupy Oakland protest.

Each was charged by the Alameda County District Attorney's Office with felony counts of robbery and hate crimes, Watson said.

An Occupy Oakland organizer could not be reached for comment on Friday evening.

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A rallying cry of the movement has been that 1 percent of the population has too much of the nation's wealth and the remaining 99 percent is disadvantaged.

It has lost momentum in recent months after police cleared encampments in New York, Oakland and other major cities.

NBC Bay Area said police were asking anyone with information about the incident to contact the Major Crimes Section at the Oakland Police Department.

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A former Georgia police officer told a court that he robbed a bank last year so that he could get health care while in a federal prison.

Edward Pascucci told U.S. District Court Judge Clay D. Land on Thursday that he was facing “severe health problems” and homelessness when he decided to rob the Citizens Trust Bank in Columbus, Ga., last August, according to the Columbus Ledger-Enquirer.

“I didn’t want to be homeless,” Pascucci said, according to the paper. “I should not have manipulated the justice system, but I couldn’t think of any other way to get help.”

The FBI said Pascucci, 54, walked out of the bank with more than $1,000, ABC station WTVM-TV of Columbus, Ga., reported. He had been jobless for more than a year when the crime occurred.   

According to WTVM, FBI agents said Pascucci walked into the Citizens Trust Bank with a .357-caliber revolver on Aug. 3 and demanded money. The gun reportedly was not loaded.

Investigators said a security guard stopped Pascucci after he walked out of the bank and held him until a Columbus police officer could arrest him.

Pascucci, who served as a Columbus policeman for 15 years, got his wish -- he was sentenced to five years and three months in prison. In keeping with the terms of a plea agreement, he also was ordered to serve three years of supervised release. He was given credit for time served awaiting sentencing.

According to the Ledger-Enquirer, Pascucci served in the Marines, Army and Army Reserve before becoming a police officer in 1989.

The newspaper reported that Pascucci had a troubled employment history with the police department that prompted a psychologist in 2002 to recommend he no longer serve on the force. He transferred to animal control that year, according to the Ledger-Enquirer, but resigned in March 2006 in lieu of an appeal for unprofessional conduct.

Described by the Ledger-Enquirer as being shackled and dressed in a yellow jumpsuit with the word “federal” emblazoned on it, Pascucci apologized to the employees of the Citizens Trust Bank, to his former colleagues at the Columbus Police Department and to the “community at large.”

“I had no funds whatsoever left to live on,” he said. “I did this foolish thing hoping I’d get some kind of care.”

On Aug. 3, he walked into the bank about 11 a.m. and presented a note to the teller that read, “This is a stick up, hand over the money,” according to court documents.

The teller gave him $1,040, prosecutors said, and Pascucci walked out of the bank.

Pascucci, the Ledger-Enquirer reported, told authorities he removed the bullets from his gun before entering the bank. Officials later recovered those bullets during a search of Pascucci’s car.

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A South Florida man who was handcuffed and allegedly kicked in the head in an Aventura Bank of America in a case of mistaken identity was awarded $3.3 million in damages by a Miami-Dade jury.

Rodolfo Valladares, 50, walked out of court last week with the verdict after a jury found the bank negligent in the July 3, 2008, incident, according to the Miami Herald.

Valladares had walked into the bank to cash a $100 check when the teller mistook him for a robbery suspect who had been robbing banks in the area.

The bank had distributed a photo and description of the suspect, a Hispanic man who wore a Miami Heat hat during the robberies, and when Valladares walked in wearing a Heat hat, the teller hit a silent alarm.

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Aventura and Miami-Dade police responded and ordered everyone to the ground before taking Valladares into custody, despite the fact he never displayed a weapon or demanded money, according to his lawsuit.

Not to mention that Valladares looks nothing like the suspect, who was described as in his 60s and around 145 pounds. Valladares was 46 and weighed over 200 pounds at the time, according to the Herald, but the teller didn't have the photo of the suspect on hand.

Valladares' attorney claimed officers handcuffed him and kicked him in the head, and that he still suffers headaches, blurred vision and post-traumatic stress disorder from the encounter.

"We are disappointed with the verdict and plan to appeal," Bank of America spokeswoman Shirley Norton said in a statement.

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Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer, his wife and several family friends were robbed by a person with a knife at the Breyer vacation home on the Caribbean island of Nevis, the court confirmed to NBC News on Monday.

The local St Kitts Nevis Observer newspaper described the attacker as wielding a machete.

About 9 p.m. ET last Thursday night, Justice Breyer, his wife and houseguests were robbed by one person, wearing a mask and wielding a knife, a court official said. The robber made off with about $1,000 in cash.

No one was hurt in the incident.

Previously filed financial disclosure forms as well as articles and tourist websites acknowledge that Justice Breyer is a regular vacationer to the island and has owned a home there for quite some time.

The Nevis police department is investigating and says there are no suspects or arrests at this time.

Local news reports as well as the police acknowledge other robberies and break-ins in the area around the same time.

It’s the third time in recent years that a Supreme Court justice has been a crime victim.

Back in 2004, Justice David Souter suffered minor injuries when he was mugged by a group of young men while jogging.

And in 1996, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg had her purse snatched near the Kennedy Center while walking with her husband and daughter. She was not hurt in the incident.

Crime in the Carribbean, and partcularly on Nevis, has climbed dramatically in recent years, according to the United Nations.

Over the past year, Americans living on Nevis say they've had enough of the frequent home invasions.

One American expatriate, who no longer wants to be named because he says he's been harassed by local officials, started his own crime-reporting service for people on the island, because residents claim police are inadequate.

Last year citizens met with police, and staged a rally, to try to call attention to the crime problem.

People are furious, according to NBC News. Some Americans who own properties on the island no longer want to retire there because of the crime -- and they say the crime rate has lowered their property values.

Mike Kosnar, Michelle Kosinski and Pete Williams contributed to this report.

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Thieves tore apart the youth center of a Georgia church and made off with nearly everything they could — including a refrigerator, a stove, a microwave oven, broilers and the copper in the ceiling — while the congregation worshiped during Sunday services upstairs, the church's pastor says.

"They stood on the chairs and took all the copper. They took our kitchen utensils," said Mona Harper, pastor of Kingdom City Church in Stone Mountain, a suburb of Atlanta.

But then they went a step further, NBC station WXIA of Atlanta reported.

"They took crayons, magic markers and DVDs. They left the Bible and the Scrabble game, but they took the board games," Harper said.

"Things that we use to get kids off the street, they just took it," she said.

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Pastor Mona Harper surveys the damage at Kingdom City Church in Stone Mountain, Ga.

The break-in was discovered Wednesday when members arrived for weekly Bible study. Harper said she believes the break-in started during Sunday night services because the sound system and lights began malfunctioning.

"They were apparently downstairs cutting electricity to some of our units," she told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.

News of the break-in galvanized community support in the Atlanta area.

Within an hour, Home Depot — whose corporate headquarters is in Atlanta — donated a refrigerator, a stove and a microwave oven. The School Box, a chain of education supply stores in the Atlanta, offered to replace the stolen school supplies. Mount Carmel Christian Church in Stone Mountain, meanwhile, offered to let Kingdom City use its facilities for services.

Harper, whose leads the congregation with her husband, James, the church's bishop, said the robbery had left her undeterred.

"If somebody could come in on a Sunday night while church is going on and literally rob a church — not only rob it but endanger the people and possibly could have set this place on fire — I believe that my work here is more needed than it's ever been."

Police said they were investigating the incident.

M. Alex Johnson of msnbc.com contributed to this report by Bill Liss of NBC station WXIA of Atlanta. Follow M. Alex Johnson on Twitter and Facebook.

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