Fargo police say burglars stole $100,000 worth of copper from a business over the weekend. The Forum newspaper reports that Dakota Electric Construction Co. reported the theft of 52 large spools of copper, which can bring high prices when sold …
The manager of a Shreveport, La., restaurant has been accused of stealing money from the business. The Caddo Parish sheriff says 40-year-old Deidra Jenkins was arrested Monday. Authorities say the investigation centered on eight cash deposits totaling $3,100 that Jenkins …
Police are searching for two men suspected of stealing a semitrailer rig carrying $1.7 million worth of tablet computers from a central Indiana truck stop. Mike Milbourn of Chesterfield Police Department tells The Herald Bulletin the truck was stolen Thursday …
Police in Vermont are investigating the thefts of dozens of street signs in the town of Washington. Vermont State Police say a citizen on Friday reported that numerous signs with street names had been stolen this week in the Scales …
Waterbury, Conn., police say they’ve charged a man with stealing two bronze statues from a cemetery and selling them off as scrap metal for $1,500. Twenty-six-year-old Jonathon Leveille of Southington was charged with first-degree larceny and other crimes in last …
An Alabama woman is facing a felony charge after police say she set up a robbery at the store where she worked. The Dothan Eagle reports that 27-year-old Bridgett Ann Pruitt was charged with theft and filing a false police …
A Pittsburgh-area police officer has pleaded not guilty to a federal mail fraud indictment charging him with staging a motorcycle theft so he could collect nearly $15,000 worth of insurance. Federal prosecutors in Pittsburgh say suspended Kennedy Township Officer Frank …
Ascension Parish sheriff’s deputies are investigating the theft of copper wire and fittings from nearly a dozen air conditioning units at Lake Elementary School in St. Amant. Deputies tell The Advocate school authorities called maintenance workers Tuesday morning when staff …
Three DeSoto County school buses were stolen, but school system officials said Friday that the thief returned two of them. The Commercial Appeal reports the third bus was recovered by police at the corner of Jefferson and Stonewall in Olive …
The insurance company that paid Drake University’s theft claim has filed a lawsuit against the former Drake administrator who stole the money. The Des Moines Register reports that Employers Mutual Casualty Co. filed the lawsuit this week against Robert Harlan. …