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theft stories: 85 news summaries

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 Clerk Runs Off With Million Dollar Lotto Ticket

Customer's trust betrayed, guy probably in Asia

Oct 23, 09 6:59 AM CDT
(Newser) - A former Texas convenience store clerk is on the lam and living large, police say, after making off with an unwitting customer’s million dollar lotto ticket. Willis Willis of Grand Prairie, Texas bought tickets at the Lucky Food Store every week, trusting the clerks to check if he’d... More »

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Texas • theft • convenience stores • lottery • lotto

 Madoff in Prison Yard Tussle 

Bernie shoves another senior citizen in stock market argument

Oct 13, 09 5:21 AM CDT
(Newser) - Scam king Bernie Madoff got into a shove match with another con during an argument about the stock market, according to jailbird witnesses. Another oldster con at the North Carolina fed pen where Bernie's serving 150 years shoved Madoff as the argument escalated. Madoff pushed back, causing the other inmate... More »

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prison • theft • scam • Ponzi scheme • sentence • Bernard Madoff • prison sentence

 US Cops Nab 
 International 
 Chameleon 
 Conman 

Smooth-talking Colombian scammed luxury hotels in many countries

Sep 30, 09 6:14 AM CDT
(Newser) - A Colombian fraudster wanted in seven countries has been arrested after entering the US from Canada on a phony passport. Juan Carlos Guzman-Betancourt, known to have at least 10 aliases, made his living scamming luxury hotels, often pretending to be a guest who had forgotten the combination to his safe... More »

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theft • Colombia • hotel • arrest • con man

 Mass. Mailman Steals 30K DVDs 

Yearlong 2007 crime was noticed when, well, DVDs started disappearing en masse

Sep 22, 09 1:33 PM CDT
(Newser) - A former Massachusetts postal worker has pleaded guilty to stealing 30,000 Netflix DVDs that passed through the Springfield post office, the Republican reports. Investigators got wise to the crime—which spanned all of 2007—when the company noticed it was losing up to a 100 DVDs a week... More »

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theft • Massachusetts • Springfield • Netflix • USPS • DVDs • stealing • US Postal Service • postal worker • Myles Weathers

  Warhol Collection 
 Stolen From LA Home 

$1 million reward offered after fortune in original Warhol art vanishes

Sep 12, 09 5:58 AM CDT
(Newser) - A multi-million dollar collection of portraits by Andy Warhol has been stolen from a prominent collector's home, the Los Angeles Times reports. Former investment banker Richard Weisman's housekeeper discovered that The Athletes series of 11 portraits—worth as much as a million a pop—had vanished when she entered the... More »

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art • Andy Warhol • theft • painting • art collector

Alleged Beer Thief Won't Go to Jail Before Finishing Drink

Now faces charges of shoplifting and battery

Sep 11, 09 12:19 PM CDT
(Newser) - A Florida man who wanted to go to jail for "three hots and a cot" walked into a store, grabbed a beer, and told the clerk to "call the law" because he had no money. All went according to plan until the deputy who responded tried to... More »

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alcohol • theft • beer • jail • stealing • store

 UC Settles 
 Suits in 
 Embryo 
 Thefts 

'Our kids are still out there,' says heartbroken mom

Sep 11, 09 2:55 AM CDT
(Newser) - The University of California Board of Regents has quietly paid $4.2 million to settle a dozen lawsuits linked to doctors who stole embryos in an Irvine fertility clinic, reports the Los Angeles Times. The physicians fled the US after it was discovered 14 years ago that they moved eggs... More »

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fertility • crime • theft • lawsuit • settlement • fertility treatment • University of California Irvine • fertility clinic • UC Irvine • doctors • settlements • UC

(Newser) - Bike owners are turning to newer technology to help nail crooks stealing their rides by posting online pleas to lookout posses, reports the Wall Street Journal. Victims use Twitter, Facebook and other sites geared toward bikers to hook into a nation of eyes watching streets and classified ads for stolen... More »

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theft • bikes • bicycles • recession depression

 Thieves Loot Lohan's Home 


Aug 23, 09 5:12 PM CDT
(Newser) - Three men were caught on tape breaking into Lindsay Lohan’s Hollywood Hills house this morning, TMZ reports. The actress discovered the burglary when she came home at 3am, then called her father. "The safe was ripped out of the wall, and the door was off the hinges and... More »

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theft • Lindsay Lohan • gossip • burglary • break-in

Thieves Kill Sumatran Tiger, Swipe Pricey Fur, Bones

Sales of endangered species persist despite tough laws

Aug 23, 09 3:02 PM CDT
(Newser) - Thieves at an Indonesian zoo slaughtered an endangered tiger and swiped most of its body in a caper officials believe was motivated by greed, the AP reports. “It was sadistic,” said the director of the zoo, where staffers found the remains of the female tiger yesterday. “The... More »

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endangered species • Indonesia • theft • zoo • Sumatran tiger • strange stuff

Omaha Man Swipes Virgin Mary Painting
for Abortion

Rapist sells $100K artwork in Mexico

Aug 22, 09 5:07 PM CDT
(Newser) - An Omaha man stole a painting of the Virgin Mary to pay for the abortion of his teenage rape victim, the Omaha World-Herald reports. Aurelio Vallecillo-Sanchez, 39, described by his attorney as "remorseful and ashamed," pleaded no contest yesterday to charges of theft and sexual assault and faces... More »

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abortion • theft • Omaha • rape • Virgin Mary

(Newser) - With Texas caught in the midst of a brutal drought, a new crime is on the rise: hay rustling. Hay has been disappearing from farms, depriving cattle of much-needed nourishment, the Wall Street Journal reports. Stolen hay reports remain sporadic—the Journal catches up with one farmer who lost... More »

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agriculture • Texas • farming • drought • theft • hay

Cattle Rustling Makes a Texas- Size Comeback

Thievery soars in Wild West as recession-hit cowboys go bad

Aug 11, 09 8:11 AM CDT
(Newser) - A crime of the Old West is becoming a serious problem in 21st-century Texas, the Los Angeles Times reports. Cases of cattle rustling have more than tripled over the last couple of years, a trend investigators blame on the recession and on city-dwelling ranch owners who don't take the time... More »

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cattle • Texas • theft • livestock • ranch • cowboy

(Newser) - Thieves made off with $16 million in cash and jewels from the safe of a Saudi princess in Sardinia, the BBC reports. Investigators believe the burglars used a master key to gain access to her room in a chic resort and rip the safe from the wall. The theft sparked... More »

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Saudi Arabia • theft • Italy • burglary • Sardinia • Royal Family

 Bold Gem Heist 
 Gang Is Toast 
 of Serbia 

'Pink Panthers' blamed for over 100 daring robberies worldwide

Jul 29, 09 4:03 AM CDT
(Newser) - A 200-strong gang of global jewel thieves has become the bane of Interpol and heroes to many in their native Serbia, the Los Angeles Times reports. The "Pink Panthers" live among the many refugees from the Balkan wars scattered around the world. They are blamed for at least 100... More »

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Serbia • theft • gangs • criminal • Interpol • Serbs • jewel heist

(Newser) - A pair of British fraudsters who enjoyed a "champagne and cocaine lifestyle" spent their last days drinking sea water and urine on a stolen yacht, an inquest was told yesterday. The bodies of the couple, who stole a boat and became fugitives while awaiting trial for hoodwinking wealthy investors,... More »

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theft • starvation • fugitive • yachts

 German Thief Caught With 
 1,000 Pairs of Underwear 

Police suspect man may be behind string of undie thefts

Jul 21, 09 8:00 AM CDT
(Newser) - A German man arrested for shoplifting may be the culprit behind a string of recent underwear thefts, der Speigel reports. The 56-year-old resident of Gelnhausen, near Frankfurt, escaped after staff noticed him trying to steal three pairs of men’s underwear from a sports shop. Police identified him and collared... More »

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Germany • theft • burglary • Frankfurt • underwear • men's underwear • briefs

(Newser) - Donald Trump’s personal golf cart was stolen this morning, the first day of competition in a tournament at his Trump National Golf Club-Bedminster, the Newark Star-Ledger reports. It’s known around the course that cart No. 13 is reserved for Trump whenever he’s around, and it went missing—... More »

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golf • Donald Trump • theft • golf course • golf cart

Fla. Burglars
Get Burned in Pop-Tart Theft

Breakfast treats are evidence in string of
auto break-ins

Jun 30, 09 11:29 AM CDT
(Newser) - Pop-Tarts proved a key ingredient in the arrest of two young Florida men for burglary, the Orlando Sentinel reports. The pair asked a cop for a ride home early yesterday; the policeman said he had to search them first—finding a collection of high-tech gadgets and a pack of Pop-Tarts.... More »

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Florida • theft • arrest • burglary • Pop-Tart

 Google Street View  
 Nabs Dutch Thieves 

Boy found photo later, alerted cops

Jun 22, 09 1:52 AM CDT
(Newser) - The Google Street View that has infuriated many privacy advocates has helped solve a crime, the BBC reports. A Dutch boy, 14, chanced upon a months-old photo on Street View that shows him with two men right before they allegedly mugged him. Authorities retrieved the original photo from Google—the... More »

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technology • Google • crime • theft • Street View • Google Street View

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