Fleeing bank robber flings cash on highway
An man from Elburn, Illinois, was in custody after allegedly robbing a northwest Indiana bank and leading police on a 110-mile long, high-speed chase through Indiana and Illinois. While speeding, he...
View ArticleRobbery victim called 911 to report theft of his weed
Police are looking for three suspects in an armed robbery just off the campus of the University of Maryland in College Park. The neighbourhood is less than a mile from the College Park campus. Three...
View Article12-year-old motorist caught going for wild pizza joy ride
A 12-year-old boy was arrested in Indiana last night after he allegedly stole $20 from a neighbor, took his mother’s Ford Taurus, and went on a pizza run to Little Caesars with two younger children in...
View ArticleWoman gets hypnotized against her will and hands over $160,000 in cash
A woman from Boston has told police that she was approached by three scam artists in Chinatown last month and hypnotized without her permission before giving them all her valuables, including jewelry...
View ArticlePolice Chief sent 10 officers to find son’s missing iPhone
What if your son came home from school and said that his iPhone had been stolen? How would you handle it? If you are the Berkeley police chief, you could send an entire squad of police to investigate....
View ArticleMan ticketed for dropping money on the ground
A random act of kindness has landed a Cleveland man in trouble with police. Last Monday John Davis was exiting I-90 at the West 117th ramp when he saw a man in a wheelchair. The man was pale, thin and...
View ArticleDrug dealer photographed himself with bags of cannabis and crown of £20 notes
A UK drug dealer was caught out after taking pictures of himself wearing a crown made of £20 notes with a bag of drugs hanging from his mouth. Other images found on Ayub Hagos’ mobile phone included...
View ArticleGirl posts photos of her with large sum of cash, Thieves like photos and...
A 17-year-old girl posted a photo of a large sum of cash on Facebook. Hours later a gang of masked men, armed with knives and clubs, broke into the home of the girl’s mother in the country town of...
View ArticleGirl jailed for missing school refuses more than $100,000 in donations-...
Diane Tran, the 17-year-old Texas honors student who was jailed for missing too much school because she had to work 2 jobs as sole breadwinner to support her siblings, has refused to accept the more...
View ArticleVictim arrested alongside alleged thief
Sometimes it doesn’t pay to call the cops when you are a victim of crime. Police said that a New Jersey man whose bank teller spent nearly $100,000 from his bank account was found to have deposited...
View ArticleLack of sex led to store robbery
A 25-year-old man told Florida police that he had robbed a convenience store because he was upset with his fiancé for refusing to have sex with him and because he needed money to buy car insurance....
View ArticleFake alderman busted by pastor
Police said that a man in Chicago who is accused of impersonating an alderman, was busted by a pastor who is familiar with the real official. Police said that a man called the Rev. John Harrell of...
View ArticleTeen uses fake gun to steal fantasy coins for video game ‘RuneScape’
A video-game addict forced a fellow geek to fork over 4.7 billion “magic” coins after pulling out a realistic-looking gun during a robbery in a Fordham University classroom. The coins which are used to...
View ArticleNo charges for man who had £1.3 million in cash hidden in bedroom –...
£1.3million was discovered by English police in a man’s bedroom. Packed in bundles of £50 and £20 notes the haul of cash was discovered overflowing from suitcases and holdalls and stuffed into bedroom...
View ArticleRobbers make sure that victim has bus fare
Police say that robbers in Ohio held up a man at gunpoint, but gave him back enough money for bus fare before they ran away. It happened at a Dayton bus stop on Tuesday morning. The Dayton Daily News...
View Article‘Miss Marple’ pensioner catches thieving carer
A pensioner in England turned detective to catch a carer who was stealing money from her. Sylvia Gibbs, 82, set a trap for carer Kerry Skipp when she noticed her money was going missing. The...
View ArticlePolice spent ‘thousands of dollars’ tracking down man who shoved Nobby’s nuts...
Australian magistrate, Ross Mack, was in stitches after hearing police spent “thousands of dollars” tracking down a thief who stole a $3.95 pack of Nobby’s nuts. Pilot, 30, pleaded guilty in Townsville...
View ArticleWoman pulled gun on man while having sex with him in moving car
Charlotte County Sheriff’s Major Crimes Unit detectives arrested Port Charlotte woman, Amanda Jean Linscott, 26, on Tuesday morning and charged her with Armed Robbery after a September 3rd incident...
View ArticleSmugglers each swallowed $40,000 in cash
Two men each ingested about $40,000 (£26,500) before trying to enter Colombia. The pair were detained separately during the past week at the international airport in the Colombian city of Medellin and...
View ArticleOil-soaked underpants-clad burglars escaped with gold and cash
Three burglars, clad in just underpants and their bodies soaked in oil, escaped with 80 sovereigns of gold worth about 19 lakh (£22,000, $35,000) and 2 lakh (£2,300, $3,750) in cash from a house in...
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