A man from Jackson, Mississippi, allegedly robbed a business and during the heist he took the time to log-in to his Facebook page, giving away his identity to authorities.According to Clarion Ledger, 30-year-old Jackson Andrew Smith, is now prosecuted for breaking in twice at the U-Haul truck and rental services comp... |
26 October 2011
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A group of criminals used a fake Facebook profile to lure a Belgian Carrefour Express manager into a trap and force him to hand over the keys to the store's safe, which they later robbed.According to a report from the Belgian Federal Police, this was a well planned hit that involved a lot of preparation and soci... |
29 July 2011
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Stone, a Chinese Apple developer from Tencent, the company responsible for ¬¬¬China’s most popular IM software (QQ), was robbed of his iPad on the way to Apple’s WWDC10 event. He managed to escape with a broken rib, and the tablet device itself, although it too was damaged. Upon receiving a re... |
14 June 2010
06:23 GMT |
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Thieves cut a hole in the roof of a Best Buy department store in New Jersey, then dropped down 16-feet to scoop up almost two dozen MacBooks, police arriving at the scene have determined. Leaving the same way they had entered the premises, the criminals ran away with $26,000 worth of Apple laptops without setting off... |
5 March 2010
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Three suspects were arrested for robbery, access device fraud and receiving stolen property after their victim got their location using the GPS feature in his stolen iPhone. The man was able to tell the police officers exactly where the robbers had been and what they did with his credit card.A man walking along Amber... |
1 September 2009
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Kosztor Sandorne, a Hungarian thief known as the “Flying Gizi,” was arrested again for theft, this time caught red handed, while breaking into a suburban home, in the northwestern part of the country. The 83-year-old lady is one of Hungary's most well-known crooks, and got her nickname on account of ... |
14 February 2009
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Talk about running out of luck! A thief, whose "honest" intentions were aiming at nothing more than getting into a large bank's safe, ended up by drilling a whole tunnel through a giant concrete wall only to find himself in the lavatory of the institution, where guards did what they were paid for and arreste... |
3 February 2009
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If one British institution is in an embarrassing situation, it's the Police. Recently, they tracked down a stolen truck which was used by thieves to transport the stuff they robbed from a few local stores. Nothing really important, only seven pallets of games, most of them being Ubisoft's latest PlayStatio... |
30 September 2008
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ifoAppleStore is reporting that Woodcliff Lake (NJ) Police arrested three men who attempted to run off with several "duffle bags... filled with Apple products." The police believe there is a fourth thief involved, while the suspects may also be linked to a previous jewelry store burglary."Police in Woodcliff Lake (NJ... |
25 June 2008
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Could it just be that Apple's releasing two new models of its iPod player three years ago has somehow triggered an increase in the U.S. crime rate? Even though Apple is just one of the companies rolling out new goods during that period, researchers believe the iPod alone is responsible for a 50 percent (or highe... |
5 March 2008
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We saw many cases of PS3-related violence and Wii crashing adventures back in the days when the two consoles were launched. I won't even mention those guys who bought the gaming devices first and smashed in front of the other customers waiting in line... Acts of violence are born in this case from the lack of p... |
5 November 2007
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Funny burglary reported in Colorado Springs: two persons with original door keys managed to enter an amusement center and tried to open three safes in order to steal the money and other values. However, something went wrong and it all turned into a funny robbery. According to Gazette.com, it all happened when the two... |
11 July 2007
03:52 GMT |
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Hands-On Mobile, one of the leading global publishers of mobile games, lifestyle and personalization products, recently announced that it will bring the urban crime drama by Activision, True Crime: New York City, to mobile phones worldwide. Players of True Crime: New York City will take on the seedy underworld of the... |
22 March 2007
06:26 GMT |
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