Thomas Rica, a former public works inspector for the city of Ridgewood, NJ, was sentenced to five years probation after he stole $460,000 worth of quarters taken from parking meters. He stole the quarters over the course of two years from a storage room, and pled guilty to four counts of theft as part of a plea deal.
Two Santa Rosa, Ca. teens were arrested by police this week after being pulled over in an orange McLaren sports car valued at $240,000. The two apparently rented the car for $13,000 with a stolen credit card, with which they also rented a $12 million vacation home.
Two Florida women—childhood friends, recently reunited—were arrested Wednesday for attempting to shoplift swimsuits. One of them, the Ocala Star-Banner reports, was eating beef jerky. The women told cops they were attempting to cross an item off their bucket list. (Presumably stealing, or maybe just "getting swimsuits…
Women. Always putting make-up on their face skin and designer sunglasses in their purses without paying for them. And no one is better at (allegedly) combining the two than Sarah Jessica Parker's personal makeup artist Leslie Lopez.
Earlier this week, Gawker received a series of emails forwarded from an employee of a well-known New York media nonprofit. For the woman who wrote them, they are a record of the Universe's single-minded objective to deprive her of her kombucha. For the people who read them, they are a six-month documentation of one…
The work of pirates, what with the murdering and kidnapping, is not the most polite way to earn a living. But, as Somali pirate Jamal Faahiye Culusow proves, that doesn't mean you have to be ungentlemanly about it.
Remember that awesome tyrannosaur skeleton you made all those great plans for last week? It was sold this weekend for over $1 million to an anonymous bidder (you?). Also, the president of Mongolia is claiming it was stolen.
Back in the halycon days called "the 1990s," you could beat up a man, rip the expensive athletic shoes off his feet, and carry your lace-up trophies away without being caught. No iPhones, no problems. No more!
Inspecting video from a meet and greet between Czech President Vaclav Klaus and Chilean leader Sebastian Pinera, a Czech TV show noticed their president inspecting a fancy pen, then surreptitiously pocketing it with a guilty look on his face.
While renovating a Florida police station, construction workers Scott Burgert and Bradley Jones were tasked with "putting in an exhaust fan in the evidence vault to take out fumes from confiscated drugs stored there." But Jones and Burgert, according to the cops, found an even more efficient way to do deal with the…
To contextualize the allegation that LiLo stole a $2500 necklace, here's a handy guide to LiLo's kleptomania: $400,000 necklace, $11,000 mink coat, $35,000 Rolex, photo shoot jewelry, Louis Vuitton samples, her friend's clothes. Our hearts. [The Gloss]
A lady goes to a store to apply for a job. On the way out, she steals an outfit. She wears the outfit to her interview and does not get caught, until she shoplifts again. On her way out. Again.
A drunken woman is determined to see her ex-boyfriend. She won't let something petty like being arrested for drunk driving AND a hit-and-run stop her. She'll just steal the ambulance and take it for a joy ride.
Now that the rules for stealing news stories have been revealed, people are seeing stolen stories everywhere! At the National Review, they're accusing the New Yorker's Jeff Toobin of ripping off the Weekly Standard's profile last year of Nixon-loving political hit man Roger Stone. We guess that's true, if you…
