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.
Former UC Riverside student Edith Macias will attend a judicial program instead of facing jail time for her decision to steal a “Make America Great Again” hat from one of her peers.
Security camera footage has revealed the shocking moment a mother and her young child were attacked by a masked London moped gang, who demanded her jewellery before a group of workmen grabbed scaffolding poles and chased the fleeing suspects.
A man who allegedly posed as a delivery driver and stole items worth thousands of dollars from casinos on the Las Vegas strip is in custody, police said.
Police in Jacksonville, Florida say 36-year-old Christopher Raymond Hill tried to carjack two vehicles and was stopped both times when the drivers of the vehicles pulled a gun on him.
Twenty-six-year-old Ronald Williams allegedly broke into his ex-girlfriend’s home and hit her then got shot in his leg and buttocks.
23-year-old Anthony J. Clark of Oregon says he thought he was playing Grand Theft Auto while he was allegedly committing the game’s namesake crime.
Puyallup, Washington, police suspect 31-year-old registered nurse Cora Weberg of intentionally infecting at least two patients of Good Samaritan Hospital with the hepatitis C virus, as well as stealing drugs.
A California man pleaded guilty Friday to swiping a $550,000 gold bar dating back to the 1600s from a museum in Key West, Florida.
A French historian specializing in World War II history was sentenced to nearly a year in prison for stealing dog tags belonging to U.S. servicemen who perished in a plane crash during WWII, officials announced Tuesday.
Shoplifting and reports of theft in shops have almost doubled in just twelve months, new figures show, with police blamed for ignoring physical crimes as they focus on “hate crime” and online comments.
A California man has been reunited with his dirt bike stolen from him 17 years ago after thinking he would never see it again.
Police allege that a school custodian took the opportunity to rummage through students’ unattended bags Wednesday during an anti-gun walkout at a South Carolina high school, stealing as much as $180.
A New Mexico woman who allegedly faked a prescription to hoodwink her probation officer after failing a drug test said she failed it because of “medical meth.”
Classical musician Ophélie Gaillard was attacked in the Paris suburb of Pantin and was held at knife-point by a man who stole her antique cello worth 1.3 million euros ($1.5 million/£1.1 million).
A shop owner gave an alleged thief two options after he was reportedly caught stealing: apologize for the crime on Facebook Live, or go to jail. Tyler Stanley allegedly stole an item from shop owner Bo Larsen’s smoke shop in Cocoa
A Minnesota man is in custody after he stole a woman’s car out of a Walmart parking lot and then contacted the owner to help start the vehicle, police say.
An East Bay Area car burglary gang that is believed to have stolen thousands of electronic devices was caught with 900 laptops headed for the Port of Oakland for shipment to Vietnam. The Bay Area has suffered a 35 percent
Police in Arizona have arrested and accused an 80-year-old man of robbing a bank, a report says.
Police in Copenhagen, Denmark, are investigating after what is thought to be the world’s most expensive bottle of vodka was stolen from a bar.
LONDON (AP) — A homeless man characterized as a hero after the Manchester Arena bombing has admitted stealing from victims of last year’s extremist attack. Closed-circuit TV footage played in court showed 33-year-old Chris Parker stealing a purse and mobile
A Democratic congressional candidate in Virginia has been indicted on charges of fraud, embezzlement, and theft for allegedly stealing government funds from a school nutrition program in 2012.
Authorities charged the former vice president of the Parent Teacher Association (PTA) at a Texas school and her husband with stealing thousands of dollars from the group’s credit union account.
