Gus Rodriguez looks more like a soldier than a jewelry store security guard, with a Beretta handgun strapped to his bulletproof vest, shades wrapped around his shaved head and pepper spray bulging from a breast pocket. “I am not afraid,” …
The tooth fairy in disguise? No, just a simple tooth thief. A man dressed in a black leather hat and a dark coat on Wednesday ran off with an eight-foot (2.5 meter) whale tooth from a museum in the Norwegian …
Authorities are looking to arrest a man they say stole an airplane from a North Carolina airport and crashed it before getting away. The Alamance County Sheriff’s Office said on Wednesday that 46-year-old Curtis Rene Mellott stole the single-engine Piper …
Police say a northeastern Pennsylvania man was injured when he was dragged by a car while trying to chase down a man who swiped jewelry from his store. The Times-Tribune of Scranton reports 48-year-old Mark Altier sustained minor injuries after …
A drawing by Rembrandt, valued at $250,000, was stolen from a hotel in Southern California in what sheriff’s investigators said was a well-planned heist. The pen-and-ink drawing, believed to be called “The Judgment,” was snatched Saturday night while a curator …
Police in Hillsboro, N.H., are asking the public for information leading to the arrest of whoever is taking catalytic converters from a number of auto repair shops. Police say one shop in particular, Livingston’s, has been the focus of repeated …
Police say robbers disguised as police officers stopped a car on a Romanian highway and forced the occupants to hand over almost 23 kilograms (51 pounds) of gold at gunpoint. Police spokesman Danut Dinu said three masked men forced a …
Officials in Gainesville have a message for residents and visitors. Please stop stealing stop signs. Since Jan. 1, the city has replaced 52 stops signs taken from 14 locations around the city. Officials say one location has been hit four …
A fire truck was stolen from the Greenwood Township Fire Department in northern Minnesota – and the alleged driver was later arrested for driving while impaired. The Mesabi Daily News reports Sunday that officials with the fire department had gone …
The 2010 Heavy Equipment National Theft Report recorded 13,374 theft reports, according to the National Equipment Register (NER) and the National Insurance Crime Bureau (NICB). Just 19% percent of the heavy equipment stolen was recovered. The top five states with …