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Figures from the Swedish police’s National Operations Department (NOA) have revealed that foreign gangs are behind 90 per cent of the car thefts in the country.

Officials are asking for the public’s help in finding a popular tourist attraction that disappeared from a national forest in Arizona. 

About 40 veteran flag holders were reportedly stolen from graves at a cemetery in La Porte, Indiana, this week.

A suspect allegedly stole an etching by Spanish artist Salvador Dali worth $20,000 from a San Francisco, California, art gallery on Sunday.

A Georgia woman sprayed a would-be car thief with gasoline after he jumped inside her vehicle as she was filling her tank on Thursday morning. 

A police K-9 received a delicious reward after tracking down four suspects who eluded police officers the night before in Branford, Connecticut. 

A man is blaming his horse after he was arrested for burglary of a home in Spring Hill, Florida, on Thursday.

Police arrested a suspect in Prince George’s County, Maryland, on July 11 for the theft of 18 cars during a 24-hour period.

Former UCLA professor Yi-Chi Shih has been found guilty on 18 federal charges for funneling American military technology to China.

A pair of thieves were caught on camera taking valuables from a historic church Thursday night in Omaha, Nebraska.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation is urging American universities to keep an eye on Chinese students who could potentially steal research and send it back to their native country.

Johnny Peluyera, 16, was murdered in front of his father during a meet-up to sell his Xbox on Wednesday.

Foreign nationals, primarily from Asia, are reportedly disrupting West Coast ecosystems by arriving in the United States and stealing succulent plants from U.S. state parks.

Police have been accused of “ignoring crimes which aren’t easy to solve” after figures showed a steep rise in the number of cases UK forces close or “screen out” within 24 hours.

Pickpocketing on the Paris metro has dramatically increased so far this year with police saying they have seen a 33 per cent rise in just three months.

California beekeepers are offering $10,000 to anyone who can find the thieves who stole nearly 200 beehives using a forklift truck.

Google reportedly hosted a “malware” app on its Google Play store that stole users’ cryptocurrency, leading tech site Ars Technica to claim the company “can’t be trusted to proactively keep malware out of Play.”

Two Michigan women who allegedly tried to shoplift from a Target store packed with police officers for the store’s “Shop with a Cop” event on Wednesday found themselves on the wrong side of the law.

As “porch pirates” across the country set their sights on unopened delivered packages this holiday season, one Pennsylvania man is determined to give these thieves a taste of their own medicine.

Police in Slidell, Louisiana, are looking for a man who entered a retirement community, then forced his way into a WWII veteran’s apartment to allegedly rob him at gunpoint.

Jersey City Police are setting up fake Amazon packages and cameras in an effort to identify and catch the parcel thieves commonly referred to as “porch pirates.”

A girl who police say is as young as eight years old had been caught on surveillance footage scurrying off with a package left outside a Maryland home, according to a video released Friday.

An elderly woman was nearly run over in a Florida McDonalds parking lot Thursday evening as she tried to fight off her attacker who allegedly snatched her purse inside the restaurant, according to security camera footage of the incident.

A group of thieves in Washington state is accused of stealing Christmas joy from kids in need on Tuesday, running off with hundreds of bicycles and helmets meant to be donated to the less-fortunate for Christmas.

A former Ohio nurse will spend the next two years of her life behind bars after she lied to friends and colleagues about her diagnosis of terminal lung cancer.

Authorities are on the lookout for a Florida woman who allegedly swiped a package off of a homeowner’s porch last Monday, not realizing that she opened a can—or in this case a box— of worms.

An Ohio woman was caught red-handed for allegedly ordering $1,600 worth of Girl Scout cookies and not paying for them.

A handcuffed woman slipped out of her cuffs while sitting in a patrol car before taking the wheel and driving off, according to a video released this week.

Crew members with the show Inside Edition who had been reporting on San Francisco Bay Area crime became victims of the very crimes they were reporting on.

Police are searching for a New Hampshire man who allegedly used a toddler to steal items from an arcade game at a mall on Friday.

PARIS – A member of the Saudi royal family has reported the theft of hundreds of thousands of euros’ worth of jewellery from her hotel room at the Ritz hotel in Paris, police sources said Monday.

An incident in which thieves stole more than $40,000 worth of insects and lizards from the Philadelphia Insectarium and Butterfly Pavilion last Wednesday is suspected to be an inside job, police announced Thursday.

A couple was stopped by a West Virginia state trooper who allegedly confiscated their money without even charging them with a crime.

Three robbers have been found guilty of murder and manslaughter after torturing and “beat[ing] to death” a father before one entered his jewellery shop disguised in an Islamic burqa.

A pair of violent thieves who used mopeds to “target elderly victims”, including a man in his 50s who was stabbed over a bible, has been jailed for 32 years amid London’s ongoing crime wave.

A Mexican citizen living in Tijuana with 40 aliases was sent to U.S. prison after admitting he assumed an American identity to collect almost $361,000 in government benefits fraudulently.