It's possible you're talking about different things. When robbery was mentioned asenna, I was imagining an empty house being robbed.

Uh, that's not robbing, that is breaking and entering combined with, most often, plain theft. It might be that US law includes this in the definition of robbery, but German law seems to distinguish clearly.

Thanks for adding weight to my assessment that different people might have been thinking about very different things despite reading the same sentence.