Joe Patridge

An ex-nursing home employee turns to a life of crime and uses stolen drugs to disable his robbery victims.

Posing as a salesman, a man lines up wealthy prospects in motels; then his two female accomplices, posing as hitchhikers, relieve the victims of their money.

A handyman steals donation money and frames a local beautician for the crime.

In a tungsten mine, counterfeiters hide their plates in nitroglycerin, packed in suitcases when a gun-crazy man grabs the suitcases and flees, unaware of the explosives.

The Highway Patrol helicopter is ordered into action when the botched robbery of a roadside diner results in the shooting of the proprietor and the abduction of his daughter.

One member of a three-person holdup team impersonates a Highway Patrol officer in order to deceive robbery victims into thinking that they need not notify the Patrol themselves.