Men Arrested After Payday Loan Store Robbery in Spokane

A rare case of catching the bad guy
Very rarely do I read about a payday loan store robbery in which someone actually gets arrested. In fact, of the 20 or so robberies I’ve reported on this year, there have been four arrests, if I am remembering correctly.
So I was surprised [...]

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Gunman Robs Indiana Payday Loan Store

Employee left alone in store
A Check into Cash store in Crown Point, Indiana, was robbed Thursday. There was only one employee in the store at the time.
Armed robber
The employee reports that the robber pointed a handgun at him and demanded he empty the cash drawer. After the cash was put [...]

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Payday Loan Store Robbed in Wichita, an Attempt in Spokane

Payday Loan store robberies continue
It seems robbers out there are getting wise to the fact that other robbers are hitting up payday loan stores and getting away with it. After a string of robberies last month, another store has been held up at gunpoint.
Wielding a gun in Wichita
Police in Wichita, [...]

Robbers Target Payday Advance Loan Stores

Holdups in Washington, Indiana
Reports of robberies at payday advance loan stores are flooding in this month. Just yesterday, Jan. 29, two separate payday loan stores were robbed within hours of each other in Spokane, Washington. One Check into Cash location was robbed about 1:30 in the afternoon, and another store [...]

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Ohio, Catholic Church and Payday Loans (pt. 3)

Father forgive me, but you don’t know the payday loan
Show me the research, because your numbers on the payday loan are officially ignorant. While you’re looking for those numbers that may or may not exist, I’ll direct readers to parts one and two of this article on Ohio and loss [...]

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Ohio, Fight Ignorance One Payday Loan At a Time (Pt. 1)

Some Ohioans see the light on payday loans
Who would have thought that a state whose legislature and media have been so blatantly against the payday loan industry in recent months would allow a reporter to pierce the veil of insanity with a bit of truth telling? That’s exactly what Adam [...]

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Payday Loans | L.A. Times Swings and Misses (Part I)

Hate it or Love it
Payday loans, says Check Into Cash founder W. Allan Jones, is “the craziest business. Consumers love us, but consumer groups hate us.” According to this recent Los Angeles Times article, that’s where the divide seems to be, and in their estimation, that is a problem.
“Critics say [...]