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Tue, 04/05/2011 - 13:17 by NeelamGoswami
A break-in early Monday morning at the Apple Store at the Otay Ranch Town Center followed by a gun battle between a security guard and suspected burglars resulted in the death of one suspect and the arrests of two others.
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Fri, 12/03/2010 - 22:20 by Prince damin
Toronto -- The Christmas spirit was nowhere in evidence while thieves cut down and removed 100 trees from a Canadian farm.
Doug Drysdale's tree farm outside Toronto has a "cut-your-own" honor system, but when he checked in last week he found about 100 trees gone.
"They didn't just wander in and take one or two," he told the Canadian Broadcasting Corp. "Obviously they had a truck and maybe a trailer or something like that to put them in."
The family has run the farm for more than 60 years. Drysdale planted many of the trees that were stolen.
"When you drive up and see the product that you've worked hard to grow is missing, it is very disappointing and disheartening," he said.
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Wed, 11/17/2010 - 09:47 by Prince damin
Tonypandy, Wales -- A Welsh jewelry store owner said thieves who stole $11,000 in rings were caught after trying to sell one of the items at another location of the same store.
Derek Davies, 69, owner of D & M Davies Jewelers locations in the towns of Tonypandy and Treorchy, said the thieves made off with the rings from the Tonypandy location Nov. 5 and attempted to sell one of them at the Treorchy location Wednesday, the South Wales Echo reported.
"They must have just gone into the next town a few miles down the road, not looked at the name and not realized it was the same shop," Davies said.
Police said four men, ages 33, 23 and 16, and a 30-year-old woman were arrested in connection with the case. Their names have not been released.
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Tue, 08/17/2010 - 22:16 by Prince damin
Waresboro, Fla. -- Authorities in Florida said they arrested four men accused of stealing an aluminum roof off the top of a house.
Lt. Jody Ponsell of the Ware County Sheriff's Office said a man called deputies Friday about noon and reported about 30 of the approximately 4-foot-long aluminum sheets were missing from atop his house near Waresboro, and 15 more were in his yard, the (Jacksonville) Florida Times-Union reported Tuesday.
"It appears he interrupted the burglars and they took off when they heard him coming down the road," Ponsell said.
Deputies en route to the scene pulled over a pickup truck hauling aluminum roof panels and arrested four men inside the vehicle.
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Thu, 06/03/2010 - 15:01 by Rakhi
Johnson, R.I. -- Police in Rhode Island said a Blessed Mary statue stolen from a yard did not help thieves avoid crashing their car into a building.
Investigators said David Casey of Johnson saw a man get out of a car at about 6 p.m. Saturday, grab the statue from his yard and speed off in the car, the Providence (R.I.) Journal reported Wednesday.
Police received a call a few minutes later about a car with the same description crashing into a factory building. They said the Blessed Mary statue was recovered unharmed from the front seat of the maroon 1990 Toyota.
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Thu, 05/27/2010 - 10:11 by Pankaj Damin
Malliss, Germany -- Police in a German city said apparent robbers trying to blast their way into a bank misjudged their explosives and left the building in ruins.
Investigators in Malliss said the robbers attempted to blast open the doors of Valksbank early Tuesday and apparently planned to cart away an ATM with a low-loading truck, Britain's Daily Mail reported Wednesday.
However, the explosion, which police said appears to have been created using gas cylinders, sent splinters of hot metal into the truck's fuel tank, causing the vehicle to catch fire.
Police said the bank's safe and cash machine were found intact within the ruins of the building.
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Wed, 05/26/2010 - 10:32 by Rakhi
Des Moines, Iowa) -- Police in Iowa said thieves broke into a Subway restaurant and took several pounds of meat and other food, but left all the money.
Des Moines police said the burglars, who struck late Saturday night or early Sunday morning, took 6 pounds of ham, 4 pounds of turkey, 8 pounds of roast beef, 10 pounds of cold cuts, 12 pounds of cheese, a case of beverages, 96 cookies and four to six loaves of bread, the Des Moines Register reported Tuesday.
Investigators said the thieves also apparently made sandwiches for themselves before leaving. They said the culprits broke into the restaurant through a drive-through window.
Copyright 2010 United Press International, Inc. (UPI).
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Sat, 05/22/2010 - 09:22 by harsheeb
New Delhi -- New Delhi police said thieves are pouring sleep-inducing gas into air conditioning units to knock out homeowners during burglaries.
Investigators said the thieves pour the gas into the window-mounted units, which fan air through wet grass, and wait for homeowners to fall asleep before relieving them of their valuables, Sky News reported Friday.
The gang took about $11,500 worth of cash and jewelry from a home this week and made off with $20,000 in of cash and goods earlier in the month.
Police said one of the victims reported a "revolting odor" coming from the air conditioning unit.
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Thu, 02/18/2010 - 13:02 by Rakhi Kaptiyal
Godfrey, Ill. -- Authorities in Illinois said they arrested three teenagers who allegedly stole and abandoned a backhoe without covering their snow footprints.
Police said Dylan Andrew Johnson, 18, Jacob Benjamin Hook, 18, and a juvenile took the backhoe from a Village of Godfrey site during a Monday snowstorm but abandoned the construction vehicle only about 100 yards from where it originally sat, the Belleville News-Democrat reported Wednesday.
Investigators said they followed the footprints in the snow to the home of one of the suspects, where all three teenagers were found.
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Wed, 02/10/2010 - 09:42 by Rakhi Kaptiyal
Berkeley, Calif. -- Police at a California university said thieves have stolen necessary flushing hardware from more than three dozen campus toilets.
The University of California, Berkeley, campus police chief, Mitch Celaya, said the burglars brought tools into buildings across the campus and pulled the brass hardware from the toilets, rendering them ineffective, the Oakland (Calif.) Tribune reported Monday.
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Wed, 01/13/2010 - 10:57 by Natalie James
Los Angeles, January 13 -- Grammy award-winning R&B singer Usher fell victim to thieves last month when he had $1 million worth of jewelry stolen. Furs and electronics also were taken by thieves from his parked car, according to reports.
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Wed, 01/06/2010 - 09:49 by Rakhi Kaptiyal
Grant, Mich. -- A Michigan family said thieves came onto their property and cut about 2 pounds worth of hair from the tail of their 18-year-old horse.
Rachal North of Grant said her horse, Star, had a tail that reached down to its feet before the Dec. 29 theft but now needs a blanket to keep warm, WZZM-TV, Grand Rapids, Mich., reported Tuesday.
North said the tail was cut down to the bone and it will take up to three years to grow back completely.
"It was probably about 2-pounds worth. Which according to what I looked up on the internet, hair is worth ($37 to $80) per pound," she said.
She said some of her neighbors have reported similar thefts and one heard two snowmobiles in the area.
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