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Airbnb User Trashes Home of Stranger

Company on defensive after honor system doesn't quite work

(Newser) - It's been quite the up-and-down week for Airbnb, a start-up that helps people rent their homes to vacationing strangers. All began great when the company secured a $1 billion valuation, notes the Wall Street Journal . Then a PR disaster: A San Francisco woman blogged about how she returned from...

Family Fights US Mint Over Rare Coins

1933 double-eagles were supposed to have been destroyed

(Newser) - A Philadelphia family is going head-to-head with the US government in a legal battle over ownership of 10 rare "double-eagle" coins worth $20 each when minted, and now valued in the millions. The coins were first produced by the US Mint in 1933 but never distributed. All but two...

Europe's 'First Travel Guide' Stolen

12-century Codex Calixtinus goes missing from Spanish cathedral

(Newser) - Modern technology didn't prevent the theft of a priceless 12th-century manuscript from a Spanish cathedral. The Codex Calixtinus—known as "Europe's oldest travel guide" because it contained a guide to walking routes for pilgrims—is believed to have been stolen by professional thieves from an safe in...

Mailman Blames Thievery on Rollercoaster, Dodges Jail

Disney's Thunder Mountain induced PTSD: lawyer

(Newser) - A British postman escaped a jail sentence by blaming his repeated mail theft on a rollercoaster. An August ride on Disney’s Thunder Mountain prompted flashbacks of a childhood schoolbus accident that killed eight and hospitalized the future mail carrier, his lawyer told the court. The flashbacks led to post-traumatic...

Hackers Grabbed Data on 360K Citibank Customers

Citi originally said 1% of 21M customers were affected

(Newser) - Citibank has finally 'fessed up that hackers managed to grab account data on a whopping 360,083 US credit card customers. That's nearly double what the company initially revealed when it said 1% were affected, which equals about 210,000 customers based on its 2010 annual report, reports...

Planeloads of Cash Sent to Iraq Possibly Stolen
Planeloads of Cash Sent
to Iraq Possibly Stolen
$6.6B missing
Jun 13, 2011 12:13 PM CDT

Planeloads of Cash Sent to Iraq Possibly Stolen

Missing $6.6B could be 'largest theft of funds in national history'

(Newser) - The US still doesn’t know what happened to billions in cash it sent to Iraq to pay for reconstruction. Some $6.6 billion of the $12 billion it delivered remains missing—and for the first time, some officials say it could have been stolen. It may be “the...

Man Busted After Swiped Laptop Keeps Taking His Photo

Theft-tracking software reunites owner with stolen MacBook

(Newser) - An Oakland man has been reunited with his stolen laptop thanks to an app that took pictures of the slack-jawed suspected thief and captured his email address. Joshua Kaufman started a blog— This Guy Has My MacBook —after police told him that they couldn't follow up the case...

Thieves Make Off With $1.6M in Vintage Wine

Thieves used a forklift to steal 400 cases of vintage vino

(Newser) - Call it theft by forklift: Scotland Yard is searching for $1.6 million worth of vintage wine stolen from an east London warehouse on Sunday. Thieves disabled alarms and security cameras before breaking into the warehouse and using a forklift to load up about 400 cases of the precious cargo,...

Thieves' Fave New Target: Human Hair

In recent rash of salon robberies, cash registers ignored

(Newser) - Across the country, beauty salons are hiring security guards and installing bulletproof glass, all to protect something even more valuable than the cash they have on hand: human hair. A rash of robberies—including one in which a beauty supply store owner was killed—has hit salons over the past...

Website Can Find Stolen Cameras

It uses data hidden in old photos to scan the web for new ones

(Newser) - The Consumerist takes note of a nifty website that might help you track down a stolen digital camera. The site, stolencamerafinder.com , works on a relatively simple formula. You drag and drop one of your old photos taken with the camera, and the site extracts signature data from it and...

Tomato Thieves Nab 6 Truckloads

'Smooth as silk' crooks created fake trucking firm

(Newser) - With produce prices soaring, thieves decided the time was ripe for a major operation—and they got away with $300,000 worth of Florida produce, including six truckloads of tomatoes, the New York Times reports. “I’ve never experienced people targeting produce loads before,” said one trucking broker....

Cops: 'Robin Hood' Robbed Chinese to Help Poor

NYC woman says she steals for the poor, but targets Chinese

(Newser) - New Yorker Ho Vasko says she went on a Chinatown pickpocketing spree to amass money to give to the poor. But prosecutors have a different explanation: She's a thief who hates Chinese people. The 67-year-old former restaurateur, who came to the US as a refugee from Vietnam, faces up to...

Judge to Lindsay Lohan: Plea Deal Means Jail

But she's expected to accept the deal anyway

(Newser) - Looks like Lindsay Lohan is going to wind up in jail after all, if even for a brief spell, reports TMZ . Prosecutors offered her a plea deal today—reportedly for six months behind bars—on charges that she stole a necklace . The judge made clear that if she accepts, she...

Malikah Shabazz, Malcom X's Daughter, Arrested for Alleged Theft
 Malcolm X's Daughter Arrested 
Feb 22, 2011 8:16 AM CST

Malcolm X's Daughter Arrested

Malikah Shabazz accused of stealing from widow

(Newser) - Malikah Shabazz, Malcolm X’s youngest daughter, has been arrested on outstanding warrants that include charges of grand larceny, forgery, and identity theft. The New York Times reports that Shabazz was accused of stealing from the widow of one of Malcolm’s bodyguards. She was arrested in North Carolina on...

Lindsay Lohan Pleads Not Guilty to Felony Theft

Judge warns her: 'Don't push your luck'

(Newser) - Lindsay Lohan pleaded not guilty today to felony grand theft of a $2,500 necklace—a case that could return the starlet to jail rather than the big screen. She'll be freed on $40,000 bail and is due back in court on Feb. 23. Prosecutors claim the 24-year-old starlet...

Lindsay Lohan Faces Felony Charges Tomorrow

She's accused of stealing necklace from jewelry store

(Newser) - The world gets treated to another Lindsay Lohan booking photo tomorrow. She'll be arraigned at 4:30pm EST on charges of felony theft related to the disappearance of a $2,500 necklace from a Venice jewelry store near her home, reports the Los Angeles Times . One bit of good news...

Lindsay Lohan to Face Felony Theft Charges

Necklace scandal could result in 3 years in prison

(Newser) - Lindsay Lohan said last week she was worried about Charlie Sheen. Now it's Charlie's turn to worry about her: She's going to face felony theft charges over the $2,500 necklace that went missing from a California jewelry store, reports TMZ . The charges are expected to come down Monday, and...

LiLo Accused of Jewelry Theft
 LiLo Accused of Jewelry Theft 
Feb 2, 2011 9:32 AM CST

LiLo Accused of Jewelry Theft

One of her friends turned over stolen necklace to cops

(Newser) - Lindsay, Lindsay Lindsay: You just can’t stay out of trouble, can you? La Lohan is now accused of stealing a $2,500 necklace—and as police were requesting a search warrant for her house last night, one of LiLo’s friends turned the jewelry over to authorities. Investigators say...

Cops: Man Steals Game Boy From Teen's Casket

He also grabbed a light and 3 games, say investigators

(Newser) - Now that's low. Indiana cops have busted a 37-year-old man they say swiped a Game Boy from the casket of a teen killed in a car accident. The heist occurred during viewing of the 11th-grader's body at a local funeral home, said investigators. The teen's uncle confronted the robber outside...

Santa Claus Robs Rhode Island Yacht Club

Bursts into bar with sack, steals cash

(Newser) - Call it a ho-ho-holdup: a man dressed as Santa Claus has robbed a Rhode Island yacht club. Authorities say a bartender was alone last night when a large man wearing a red suit, red hat, and white beard and carrying a sack walked into the bar and brandished a gun.

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