Sat, 28/08/2010 - 02:27 by Prince damin
Jeffersontown, Ky. -- Police in Jeffersontown, Ky., say a man charged with burglary robbed a woman he befriended on Facebook who posted the news she was going to a concert.
Shaun South, 31, of New Albany, Ind., was arrested Wednesday, the Jeffersonville (Ind.) Evening News reported. He faces charges that include burglary and theft.
Keri McMullen of New Albany said she and South, who lived in the same neighborhood as children, had been Facebook friends for about six months before the burglary in March. After she posted the information she and her fiancee planned to attend a concert March 21, two men broke in and removed their television, computers and other electronic equipment.
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Wed, 25/08/2010 - 00:41 by Prince damin
Pierrelatte, France -- Police in France said a pair of alligators they previously believed were stolen from a private zoo likely escaped instead.
Drome province police said the alligators, which went missing from a private crocodile farm near the town of Pierrelatte, were initially believed to have been stolen in late July, but recent evidence suggests they merely escaped, Radio France Internationale reported Tuesday.
"Traces of their presence were found, and we now have hope to find them," a police spokesman said.
The spokesman said the alligators do not pose a risk to humans.
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Wed, 11/08/2010 - 05:32 by Prince damin
Detroit -- The owner of a Detroit ice cream truck said giving $1,000 and free ice cream to a 9-year-old whose bike was stolen was the right thing to do.
Detroit police spokeswoman Sgt. Eren Stephens said someone stole Zachary Long's bike while he was buying ice cream from the truck in front of his house, the Detroit Free Press reported Tuesday.
Police said they suspect someone from the truck was behind the bike theft.
The boy's father, Emmett Long III, said the family pooled money to replace the bike.
"We had dealt with the problem," the father said. "The crisis had passed."
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Fri, 30/07/2010 - 02:53 by Prince damin
Xenia, Ohio -- Officials in an Ohio county said they have given up replacing Wildman Road street signs due to frequent theft.
Greene County Engineer Robert Geyer said his office has stopped replacing the signs on the rural road because they last less than 24 hours before they are stolen, the Dayton Daily News reported Thursday.
"You could put it up today and it'd be gone tomorrow," Geyer said. "It's out in the boonies and easy to steal."
Geyer said his office spends thousands of dollars each year replacing stolen or destroyed street signs. The engineer said he believes most of the signs end up as decorations in garages, bedrooms and dorm rooms.
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Fri, 23/07/2010 - 23:46 by Prince damin
Northbrook, Ill. -- An Illinois man is asking a court to award him $2.5 million from his son, who he says stole Chicago Cubs season tickets for 2007 through this year.
Gerald Adelman of Northbrook said he received the tickets in 1993 from the son of a client. Adelman said his son, Stuart, handled the purchase of the tickets each year, using money supplied by his father, the Chicago Tribune reported Friday.
Adelman's Cook County Circuit Court lawsuit, filed Wednesday, says Stuart Adelman refused to give up the tickets when he left his father's insurance firm, Gerald Adelman and Associates, in 2007.
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Wed, 21/07/2010 - 23:58 by Pankaj Damin
Rosedale, Md. -- A 6-foot-tall fiberglass statue stolen from a Maryland diner was found a few miles away leaning up against angel statues in a cemetery, nearby residents say.
George Kropkowski, who lives near the Gardens of Faith Cemetery in Baltimore, said he recognized the statue that appeared early Tuesday morning because his son, Steve, sells uniforms to the Happy Day Diner in Rosedale, where Elvis was stolen from the roof about 2 weeks ago, The Baltimore Sun reported Wednesday.
Dimitrios Pigiaditis, who owns the diner with wife Maria, said Elvis is in relatively good shape, save for missing its microphone and damage to its foot apparently incurred when the statue was stolen.
"I would like the police to find out who did it and why," Pigiaditis said.
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Sat, 17/07/2010 - 10:29 by Priyanka
According to several media reports on Friday, Gizmodo, its parent company Gawker Media and Editor Jason Chen has agreed to fully cooperate with the authorities investigating the stolen iPhone 4 prototype case.
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Sat, 17/07/2010 - 02:22 by Pankaj Damin
Hialeah, Fla. -- A Florida woman is pleading for the return of her stolen "son," a 30-year-old Macaw parrot she has owned since it was less than a year old.
Charlene Bradley said Jack, a blue and yellow bird worth thousands of dollars, was stolen from her Hialeah home at about 1 p.m. Wednesday by a thief who threw a towel over the bird to keep it from resisting and fled with her beloved pet in a truck, WSVN-TV, Miami-Fort Laudersale, Fla., reported Friday.
Bradley said her roommate, Michael Costa, heard the bird's screams and attempted to give chase upon spotting the fleeing thief, but he quickly lost the trail.
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Fri, 09/07/2010 - 01:17 by Pankaj Damin
Dublin, Ireland -- Police in the Irish capital said a penguin stolen from a city zoo was tracked using a microchip and recovered from a city street.
Investigators said the penguin was taken from the Dublin Zoo by a group of men at about 8 a.m. Thursday and was found on a city street a few hours later, The Irish Examiner reported Thursday.
The penguin, a 10-year-old female Humboldt named Kelli, was unharmed by the ordeal, zoo officials said.
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Fri, 11/06/2010 - 09:58 by Pankaj Damin
San Francisco -- A San Francisco man said his autistic daughter's tandem bicycle, stolen nearly a month ago, was found and presented to the girl at a police station.
Michael Hoffman said the $1,425 tandem bicycle, a 24-speed Buddy Bike, was a favorite possession of his autistic daughter, Rachel, 9, before it was stolen May 16 from a locked garage at the family's apartment complex, the San Francisco Chronicle reported Thursday.
Chandini Davis, 27, said she found the bike abandoned near her apartment, about three blocks from where it was taken, and learned of the theft while considering selling the valuable bike.
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Thu, 10/06/2010 - 11:37 by Pankaj Damin
Deland, Fla. -- A Florida pet shop owner has been robbed of eight snakes, including five female ball pythons carrying eggs.
Gary Locker, owner of Animalia in DeLand, says the stolen snakes were worth close to $30,000, the DeLand-Deltona Beacon reports. That's about as much as the rest of his stock put together.
The thieves also made off with $300 in cash.
Locker discovered the burglary when he opened the store Tuesday morning. Police believe the thief or thieves forced open the back door.
Seven of the missing snakes were ball pythons of various species, while the eighth was a red-tailed boa. Another ball python was found loose in the store.
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Thu, 20/05/2010 - 18:10 by Natalie James
Five paintings, reportedly including masterpieces by such painters as Pablo Picasso and Henri Matisse, have been stolen from a Paris museum, according to Paris police officials quoted by the Associated Press news agency.
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