They say the policemen demanded extortion money to let them go.

据表示，警方向他们勒索钱。

Police in Germany are hunting an extortionist who threatened to plant poisoned foodstuffs in supermarkets unless retailers paid out millions of dollars.

德国警方正在追捕一名勒索钱者，他威胁将有毒食品放进各大超市里，除非零售商愿意支付数百万美元。

Police say they're investigating links to a motorcycle gang that's been attempting to extort money from the business.

警方表示，他们正在调查该件与一个摩托车帮派的联系，该团伙一直试图向俱乐部勒索钱。

It is, however, a crime to use them to extort money.

然而，利用它们来勒索钱是犯罪。

And that's why the bartender, or bar owner, wanted to extort money from me from having a tape of me beating up those guys.

这就是为什么酒保或酒吧老板想通过录制我殴打那些家伙的录像来向我勒索钱。

He had developed a special hostility towards this god, who was very much feared by the populace of this district, or more probably a special hostility toward its soothsayer, who extorted money from the believers.

原来他早已对那尊像怀有恶感，并且那尊神像全村都很惧怕，更可能的理由是对那庙里的庙祝存有敌意，因为他常向信徒们勒索钱。

They've been extorting money and threatening people all down the eastern seaboard.

他们一直在勒索钱并威胁海岸的们。

He was a civil official but illiterate, and as soon as he arrived he started to extort money from all the wealthy people.

他是文官，但不识字，一到就开始向各有钱勒索钱。

So, it is reported that an enemy fleet has landed there and extorted money and provisions.

据报道，一支敌军舰队已在那里登陆，并勒索钱和物资。