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$1.9M Stradivarius Stolen at Sandwich Shop

Two pricey bows were also in the case

(Newser) - A quick pit stop at a London sandwich shop turned into disaster for a musician when her $1.9 million antique Stradivarius violin was stolen last Monday, Reuters reports. Also in her case were two rare and expensive bows valued at $98,000 and $8,000, respectively. The 314-year-old violin...

Women Used Their Fat to Shoplift: Police

4 pairs of boots, 3 pairs of pants hidden under folds

(Newser) - Two Oklahoma women are accused of using their body fat to shoplift, AOL News reports. Police arrested two friends, Ailene Brown, 28, and Shmeco Thomas, 37, on suspicion that they'd used their ample physiques to try to sneak $2,600 in shoes, jeans, and accessories out of a store. The...

Cops: Office Worker Stole $3.8M Via Toner Cartridges

Sloan-Kettering employee accused of black-market scheme

(Newser) - It's not the most complicated criminal scheme ever, but whatever works: Cops say the guy in charge of ordering ink cartridges for the printers at Sloan-Kettering hospital ordered extras from Office Depot—a lot of extras—and sold them on the black market. His little deception earned him as much...

Berlusconi Is Sick: Catholic Media

Italian PM accused of intervening in teen girl's theft case

(Newser) - A major Catholic magazine in Italy has blasted Silvio Berlusconi for having what it calls “a disease, something uncontrollable” when it comes to women, the Daily Telegraph reports. The latest accusation in the PM’s never-dull love life: That he stepped in and helped get an underage girl out...

Texas Marshals Fired, Indicted for Antler Theft

They took rack found by man in park, face 'oppression' charge

(Newser) - Two Texas deputy marshals were fired and face criminal charges after taking a pair of deer antlers from a citizen, the Fort Worth Star-Telegram reports. The deputies have been indicted on a charge of official oppression, a misdemeanor, for their treatment of self-proclaimed "antler freak" Anthony Brown. On March...

Iranian Chocolate Thief Will Lose Hand

Man convicted of robbery sentenced to amputation

(Newser) - An Iranian man convicted of robbing a candy store will have his hand cut off as punishment, reports the BBC , citing local media. Police found $900, gloves, and what the BBC describes as “a large amount of chocolate” in his car before arresting him. Typically, amputations are used as...

Man Admits to Stealing Sally Ride's Flight Suit

Ex-wife snitched on sticky-fingered Texas man

(Newser) - File this under strange, but true: A Texas man pleaded guilty yesterday to stealing the flight suit worn by Sally Ride as she trained to be the first US woman in outer space. Calvin Dale Smith of Houston stole the suit and other NASA equipment while he was working for...

Homeless Man Lived in Library for 2 Weeks

Man, 26, helped himself to books, food

(Newser) - A homeless man lived unnoticed in the basement of a New Jersey library for nearly two weeks. Police said a custodian saw Charles Jones Jr. peeking out a basement window of the Ocean Township library on Friday night. They discovered several books in the basement and found the 26-year-old had...

Thieves Flash Breasts to Pull ATM Job

Female crooks make boob out of customer

(Newser) - A couple of French female desperados flashed their breasts at a customer withdrawing funds from an ATM to distract him while they ripped him off. As his eyes were particularly drawn to one woman's chest, the other grabbed his money and ran (with her shirt down). The heist was captured...

'Barefoot Bandit' Was Hungry, Beaten Baby Thief

 'Barefoot Bandit' 
 Was a Hungry, 
 Beaten Kid 
 Thief 
BEGINNINGS OF A LEGEND
Jul 22, 2010 3:49 AM CDT

'Barefoot Bandit' Was a Hungry, Beaten Kid Thief

He stole to survive a hard-scrabble life

(Newser) - The busted Facebook-glamorous "Barefoot Bandit" started life as a pitiable little boy, beaten and hungry, who turned to thieving as a way to survive, the New York Times reports. Colton Harris-Moore lived a hard-scrabble life in a squalid trailer on a dead-end road less than an hour from Seattle,...

Stewardess Stole $5K From Passengers: Cops

Air France worker allegedly nabbed cash as they slept

(Newser) - Flying Air France recently cost some passengers a lot more than the ticket price. A flight attendant for the airline has been arrested in Paris on charges of stealing cash, credit cards, and jewelry from sleeping passengers. The woman police identify as Lucie R. was busted after Japanese passengers complained...

Bumbling Laptop Theft Spins Wildly Out of Control

Stolen cars and made-up sex tales ensue

(Newser) - Today's doozy from the annals of brilliant criminals: Cops in New Jersey say a 23-year-old and her boyfriend stole a laptop from a parked car. Then, according to police reports, things got interesting: They sped away, promptly crashed into a tree, then tried and failed to set the car on...

Scammer Mutilated Precious Shakespeare Folio

Stolen $6M book ripped up to disguise it

(Newser) - One of the most valuable English-language books in existence is in tatters because of an unemployed book dealer's obsession with a Cuban waitress, prosecutors told a British court yesterday. Raymond Scott stole a 400-year-old first edition of Shakespeare's works from a university exhibition and then ripped out pages and destroyed...

The 20th Century's Biggest Art Heists

Even the Mona Lisa was lifted once

(Newser) - Yesterday’s massive theft from the Paris Museum of Modern Art is already being called the “heist of the century,” although we have a few years yet to see how it holds up. The Independent looked over the 20th century and compiled a list of 10 major art...

Harvard Student Busted for Stealing Grants

He faked life story, prosecutors say

(Newser) - A former Harvard senior is facing 20 criminal charges for allegedly faking a life story to win admission to the university and then plagiarizing work to steal $45,000 in scholarship and grant money. Adam Wheeler's alleged deception was uncovered when a professor who suspected him of plagiarism went through...

Hathaway Dating Another Crook
 Hathaway Dating Another Crook 
allegedly
May 11, 2010 8:04 AM CDT

Hathaway Dating Another Crook

Actress apparently knows how to pick 'em

(Newser) - Poor Anne Hathaway just can’t catch a break in the love department. After dumping jailed scammer Raffaello Follieri, she hooked up with actor Adam Shulman and the world breathed a sigh of relief…until now. Shulman is accused of stealing part of a mural by street artist Thierry Guetta,...

iPhone Finder Named, 'Regrets His Mistake'

Especially if it turns out to be a crime

(Newser) - The guy who found (or, depending on your interpretation of California law, stole) a prototype for the next generation of iPhone is 21-year-old occasional college student Brian Hogan, Wired reports, and he's very sorry. “He regrets his mistake in not doing more to return the phone,” his lawyer...

Thieves Wheel ATM Out of Hotel Lobby

Suspects pose as repairmen to make $15K withdrawal

(Newser) - Two thieves posing as ATM repairmen making a pre-dawn call withdrew a bank machine stuffed with $15,000 in cash from a California hotel. The men, one of whom wore attire resembling a security guard's uniform, strolled into the Crowne Plaza hotel in Garden Grove, loaded the machine onto a...

Man Robbed of iPad Also Loses Finger

Thief pulling on shopping bag strips flesh off victim's pinky

(Newser) - A Colorado man picking up an iPad for a friend was robbed as he left the store—and the thief pulled so hard on the bag holding the gadget that the robbery victim also lost part of a finger. "He stripped the skin off my pinky and it went...

Thong-Addled College Kid in Hot Water
Thong-Addled College Kid in Hot Water
Apr 16, 2010 12:27 PM CDT

Thong-Addled College Kid in Hot Water

Cops find 79 pairs of undies in Michigan State dorm room

(Newser) - A Michigan State University student got quite the dressing-down last week when police arrested him for stealing thong underwear out of the laundry room—and then found 79 more pairs of presumably pilfered undies in his possession. The suspect, 19, says he did it as a prank, not because of...

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