Sick thief stole bag from grandmother as her decapitated body lay in road after hit-and-run accident
A thief stole the handbag of a hit-and-run victim as her decapitated body lay in the road, a court heard yesterday. Marc Kirvin, 46, picked up the bag, which contained £1,600 in cash, minutes after grandmother Sawari Ashraf, 62, was hit by a lorry. The impact propelled Mrs Ashraf’s bag 400ft from her body and [...]
Captain ‘sank his $2m yacht and claimed the insurance money’ but was caught when ex-girlfriend told police
A Florida captain who said his ship sank is in hot water after his ex-girlfriend tattled on him to the police. The Florida Department of Financial Services Division of Insurance Fraud arrested Robert Figueredo, 49, for allegedly sinking his own $1.86 million yacht in 2009 and claiming the insurance booty. Officials hadn’t a clue of what [...]
Police seek 2 armed-white-men who robbed Bothell business
BOTHELL, Wash. — Two armed men robbed a produce market Sunday evening, and the Bothell Police Department are looking for them. According to police, the incident happened at 8:41 p.m. at the Yakima Fruit Market at 17321 State Route 522. Police said the men went inside of the business during closing hours and [...]
Woman hands note to Tulsa pharmacy demanding pills
A woman robs an east Tulsa Walgreen’s pharmacy with a note and demands pills. The robbery took place 8am Sunday at the Walgreens at 31st and South Garnett. Police say she handed a note to the employee demanding the pills and after the employee complied with the suspect’s demands and then fled the store. The [...]
Man ‘tried to steal car by threatening owners with an infected syringe’
A man who allegedly tried to steal a car by threatening the owners with an infected syringe has been arrested. Benjamin Bichalski, 27, allegedly demanded car keys from a Tulsa family while thrusting an object at them that he said was an infected syringe. Moments earlier Bichalski had threatened another family at knife point [...]
Woman kidnapped at gunpoint is rescued after sending desperate text messages to her boyfriend
A woman kidnapped by a man who forced his way into her car and demanded she perform a sex act on him has been saved after secretly texting her boyfriend her whereabouts. The 26-year-old victim texted her boyfriend ‘Help…’ at 6 a.m. on Saturday after Albert Leclaire allegedly climbed in her car, claiming he had [...]
Girl Scout leader ‘stole $6,000 cookie money and blew it on gas, manicures and Victoria’s Secret’
A Girl Scouts troop leader has been arrested after caught with her hand in the cookie jar, allegedly stealing thousands of dollars in the girls’ fundraising. Ana Isabel Juarez, 30, of South El Monte, California, was arrested last month after more than $4,000 in money raised by her troop’s girls went missing. Another $2,000 is [...]
Babysitter ‘stole family’s clothes and jewellery then sold them to gold dealers’
A woman has been charged with stealing jewelry and clothing from a family she worked for as a babysitter. Michelle O’Harte of Sharon, Massachusetts sold hundreds of dollars worth of the family’s belongings that she had stolen while she was working for them, according to authorities. The woman grabbed the family’s possessions without permission as [...]
Elderly sisters robbed, knocked down in Boca Raton, incident caught on surveillance video
BOCA RATON, Fla. — Two sisters were shopping at a Publix store in Boca Raton Thursday, April 12, when they were victims of a purse snatching caught on video, according to the Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office. After the sisters went shopping, they went outside to wait for a bus. A surveillance video shows the [...]
Baby kidnapped and mother bludgeoned with tyre iron by attacker ‘who wanted a child of her own’
A woman is to face an attempted murder charge after she was accused of kidnapping a one-month-old baby and bludgeoning her mother using a tyre iron. Police believe Andrea Endara, 24, threatened Carla Paz at knifepoint before attacking her and spiriting her young daughter away to take care of it as her own. Endara, of [...]
‘Doomed’ man admits to cop gun theft
A Spokane man who stole a handgun from Spokane County sheriff’s detective’s squad car has been sentenced to about three years in prison. A judge recommended James Warren Peterschick, 30, undergo drug treatment and be placed in a federal prison with a medical facility in hopes of addressing what his lawyer described as a lifetime [...]
Gas theft helps cops bust burglary ring
A fuel theft at a Spokane Valley gas station this week led police to uncover a suspected burglary ring, officials said Friday. Bojan Derzic, 30, told police he’d committed 10 to 15 burglaries in recent months after he was arrested for allegedly stealing fuel at 411 N. Pines Road on Tuesday, according to the Spokane [...]