Theft

California 03/23/22, 20:08

A Republican from California wants to stop thieves from targeting vehicle exhaust systems. State Sen. Brian Jones is cracking down on catalytic converter theft across the Golden State. He recently introduced state Senate Bill 919, which proposes extra measures and more rigorous checks for used auto part transactions. Namely, the proposed legislation ...

U.S. 02/16/22, 10:30

A Republican cleverly substituted lost property used to bring the Virginia General Assembly to order on Feb. 14. Lt. Gov. Winsome Sears attracted major media interest with her creative flair for replacing a missing gavel in the state Senate. Sears reportedly hammered the pad with her patent-leather high heeled shoe, after an ...

U.S. 01/23/22, 16:12

A grandmother from Long Island, New York, is being praised for putting up a video trap and assisting in the capture of a suspected fraudster. Jean Ebbert, 73, told NBC New York on Saturday that she received an unusual phone call this week from a man claiming to be her grandson ...

U.S. 12/07/21, 18:55

On a Zoom call, the CEO of online mortgage lender Better.com, Vishal Garg, dismissed 900 staff members, then slammed them for being so ''lazy'' they effectively ''stole'' from customers. Last Wednesday, three weeks before Christmas, Garg laid off around 9% of Better.com's workforce, including the whole diversity, equity, and inclusion team, ...

California 11/22/21, 14:59

A day after the lootings in several high-end stores in San Francisco's Union Square, Walnut Creek Area witnessed large-scale theft by around 50-80 gangsters on Saturday night, Nov. 20.  Wearing ski masks and wielding crowbars, the gangster group rummaged Nordstrom's high-end department store at the Broadway Plaza outdoor mall in Walnut ...

Inspired Stories 11/21/21, 15:45

During a date, two newlywed police officers stopped an armed robbery attempt at their favorite fried chicken restaurant. Two police officers were off-duty, enjoying a peaceful evening, when an armed intruder demanded money from the cashier. Cameras in Elizabethtown, a hamlet in the U.S. state of Kentucky, caught the remarkable moment when ...

U.S. 08/10/21, 01:41

Birds have been caught stealing fur from live mammals many times, and victims vary from squirrels to predators and even humans. Although it can seem entertaining to watch a chirpy bird try to snatch body hair from animals, scientists revealed this mischief is no simple task. Nests of the tufted titmice (Baeolophus ...

Inspired Stories 06/18/21, 00:39

An autistic boy in Oregon believed so deeply in the police that he was pleasantly surprised the following day. Nobody expected anything would happen when 'Master' Pultz first contacted North Bend Oregon Police Department (NBOPD) about his stolen pepper plant in 2017. However, the then 4-year-old did not let skepticism discourage ...

2022 Campaign 09/09/20, 19:33

Two Delaware women who stole the Make America Great Again Cap from a 7-year-old boy outside the Democratic national convention were charged Tuesday, Sept. 8, with second-degree theft and hate crime offenses, the New York Post reported. Olivia Winslow and Camryn Amy, both 21, were indicted by a grand jury on ...

2022 Campaign 08/12/20, 03:20

A Democrat, who is running to be America's second-most powerful political leader, appears to have no objection to shoplifting in the name of racial equality. Vice presidential candidate Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) was caught on camera, suggesting she was happy for extreme anarchist protesters to loot businesses. "I think there has to ...

New York 02/18/20, 06:09

A repeat offender in the nation's most populated city thanked the Democratic Party for approving new rules that allowed his release from custody many times without ever needing to provide collateral. New York City subway pickpocket Charles Barry said he would still be behind bars if Democrats never passed the 2019 ...

Texas 11/08/19, 20:50

Astros pitcher Lance McCullers Jr. offered assistance after learning thousands of dollars worth of equipment had been taken from a north Houston boxing gym that serves low-income families and children, ABC13 reported.  https://twitter.com/LMcCullers43/status/1192910289123102722 Someone broke down a back door into 713 Boxing Club off the Eastex Freeway Tuesday night, Nov. 5, and ...

New York 11/02/19, 18:26

Police are searching for five women who allegedly threw a chemical substance at their cab driver in Brooklyn. The 47-year-old cab driver was dropping off five women on Atlantic Avenue near Brooklyn Avenue round 4:30 p.m. on Oct. 23 when the women threw an unknown chemical substance into his eyes. They then ...

U.S. 10/25/19, 13:09

President Donald Trump's administration is prioritizing the protection of scientific research institutions from possible theft by foreign states. Kelvin Droegemeier, director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy and principal scientific adviser to President Trump, said in an Sept. 16 open letter that in recent years "some nations ...

U.S. 10/23/19, 04:13

The founder of one of the numerous versions of the Cajun Navy has been arrested for felony theft. The arrest came after an investigation that began in September into a GoFundMe account John Billiot Jr. created, according to the Lafayette Parish Sheriff’s Office in Louisiana. Billiot was accused of setting up a ...

U.S. 10/17/19, 04:22

Lemoore authorities said two men were arrested on Tuesday, Oct. 15 for the theft of cheese products worth about $50,000 from a food plant in August. Jairo Mariano Osorio, 24, was arrested for possessing the stolen property and booked into the Kings County Jail, the Lemoore Police Department said. Thirty-four-year-old Roderick ...

Washington 10/15/19, 17:36

A Tacoma jury determined Thursday, Oct.10, that an Olympia police officer did not violate two brothers’ constitutional rights during the officer-involved shooting in May 2015 that left one of them partially paralyzed.  In November 2017, Bryson Chaplin and Andre Thompson filed a $25 million lawsuit against the City of Olympia and ...

New York 10/04/19, 04:01

Police are searching for a woman who snatched $20 right out of a young boy’s hand at a Queens pizzeria on Sept. 25. Authorities said it happened at Natalie’s Pizza, on just before 4 p.m. The 9-year-old boy was standing in the restaurant when the unidentified woman swiped the cash right out ...

U.S. 09/05/19, 18:21

Authorities said a woman stole a $28,000 diamond ring from a New Jersey Costco store by replacing it with a much cheaper ring worth $2,000 she had stolen from a different Costco. Izaebela Kolano is facing a theft charge. Police in New Jersey said the 49-year-old Nutley woman stole a $2,000 diamond ...

U.S. 09/03/19, 09:32

A man with a cardboard box and hand truck walked into a hospital in Milwaukie, Oregon, and left with an ATM containing $17,000, police said. The suspect was captured on surveillance footage around 7:18 p.m. on Aug. 17 walking into the Providence Milwaukie Hospital, police said. The man covered the ATM with ...