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Woman who received stolen Hilton jacket sentenced
A woman who pleaded no contest to receiving a jacket stolen from Paris Hilton received three years of supervised probation on Friday in a sentence ...
Iowa brokerage head gets 50 years for $215M theft
For years, Russ Wasendorf Sr. enjoyed the perks of being a successful businessman: a corporate jet, a fancy swimming pool at his mansion, an extensive ...
Pipe theft report leads Lincoln police to pot bust
Authorities say they discovered a budding marijuana-growing operation after residents of a Lincoln house called police to report the theft of ...
Man detained by Taye Diggs charged with burglary
A man who was detained by Taye Diggs after the actor found him at his home has pleaded not guilty to a felony burglary charge. Superior Court ...
Actor Taye Diggs captures burglary suspect
Los Angeles police say actor Taye Diggs chased down and captured a burglary suspect he found rummaging through his garage. It happened after the ...
Nigerian who stole $145M pays fine to avoid prison
A man who formerly helped oversee Nigeria's police pension program pleaded guilty Monday to stealing $145 million, but walked out of court a free man ...
A new market, black as ink, in NYC: printer toner
Manhattan hospital clerk Marque Gumbs was doing so well moonlighting as a peddler of stolen property that he drove a BMW, shopped at designer stores ...
Lawyer: No proof to charge Romanians for art theft
A lawyer for three Romanians accused of stealing valuable paintings from a museum in the Netherlands insisted Friday there was insufficient evidence ...
Dutch art heist detectives heading to Romania
Dutch detectives and a prosecutor will travel to Romania to investigate the possible involvement of three men in a multimillion-dollar art heist in ...
Berlin police say robber used fake Dutch ID card
Berlin police say a man suspected of brazenly tunneling into a city bank's safety deposit room used a fake Netherlands identity card to rent an ...
Sheriff: Calif. burglar was using sauna
Authorities in Northern California say a man arrested in nothing but a trench coat and socks after a break-in told investigators he had been using the ...
Man charged in theft of dad's corpse from cemetery
A man was charged Friday in the theft of his father's body from a Detroit cemetery after the corpse was discovered in a freezer in his basement.
Police receive 90 tips on Berlin tunnel raid
German police say they have received dozens of tips after releasing images of the 45-meter (150-foot) tunnel dug by robbers into the safe deposit room ...
Cruise possibly latest target of fake 911 call
Tom Cruise may be the latest so-called "swatting" victim after police responded to a 911 call of an armed robbery at the actor's Beverly Hills house ...
NYPD looks to GPS bottles to combat pill bandits
The New York Police Department wants pharmacies in and around the city to fight prescription drug thefts by stocking pill bottles fitted with GPS ...
Germany: Robbers dig 100-foot tunnel to raid bank
German police say robbers dug a 30-meter (100-foot) tunnel into the safe deposit room of a Berlin bank and escaped with their haul, setting a fire as ...
5 arrested in Los Angeles store hostage drama
Five people were arrested for a brutal takeover holdup of a clothing store during which 14 employees were held hostage, including one who was stabbed ...
Reddit co-founder dies in NY weeks before trial
The family of a Reddit co-founder is blaming prosecutors for his suicide just weeks before he was to go on trial on federal charges that he stole ...
Online activist, programmer Swartz dies in NY
Computer prodigy Aaron Swartz, who helped develop RSS and co-founded Reddit, has been found dead weeks before he was to go on trial on federal charges ...
Thugs rob LA store, take workers hostage, escape
Police were searching for two armed robbers who escaped after storming into a Southern California department store, taking 14 employees hostage and ...
Hackers sentenced for Michael Jackson music theft
A British court sentenced two hackers to 100 hours of community service on Friday for stealing a treasure trove of unreleased music — including ...
Owners try to ID items stolen in NY burglaries
It wasn't Francesco Venturiello's night. The Schenectady man whose home was burglarized in May was among the hundreds of people who came to the ...
Police in NY seek owners of 30,000 pieces of bling
For five years, someone prowled rural counties in upstate New York, pilfering pearl necklaces, gold chains, bracelets, coins, silverware and other ...