A California couple who had just taken their vows on Saturday were robbed right in front of god and everyone while taking photos in front of their old high school. In broad daylight and "in front of the flower girls." » 12/24/14 6:15pm 12/24/14 6:15pm

Brandy Allen is in a whole heap of trouble after ransacking her local Ulta (the finest place to purchase discounted toiletries) and attempting to get away with over $100 worth of eye shadow. Eye witnesses state that she wasn't even looking at prices or colors! How you gonna steal autumn colors when you're clearly a … » 9/03/14 6:45pm 9/03/14 6:45pm

Here's a good reminder that your week could be going worse: A Utah woman, arrested for theft, is expected to poke through her own poop to recover a ring she apparently swallowed mid-getaway. Congrats, lady, you're a living cautionary tale. » 9/03/14 10:45am 9/03/14 10:45am

A Chicago family's decade-long shoplifting spree ended on Wednesday when Branko, Lela and Julia Bogdanov were arrested for thieving more than seven million dollars in merchandise and selling the goods (toys, electronics, steak knives) from their home and on eBay. » 3/08/14 12:10pm 3/08/14 12:10pm

A South Carolina woman was arrested on Thursday for the most egregious crime known to man: keeping a home video of Monster In Law nine years after it was due back at the video store. Kayla Michelle Finley was taken into custody when she attempted to report a crime at the local police station and learned that she had… » 2/15/14 12:45pm 2/15/14 12:45pm

Hey, you haven't been foolish even to treat yourself to a nice stay at a fancy place like the Hilton recently, right? Well, you might be SOL! » 2/03/14 11:40am 2/03/14 11:40am

Great news, everyone! We now know that the security breach that led to the theft of approximately 40 million debit card numbers at Target is linked to an outside vendor utilized by the big box retailer. » 1/30/14 1:00pm 1/30/14 1:00pm

Cody Foster, a company that does a big game selling wholesale holiday baubles and other tschotskes to retailers nationwide, appears to be stealing artist Lisa Congdon's work and turning it into ornaments, which they're then selling for money. Money that they're not giving any of to Congdon. Yuck. » 10/15/13 8:30pm 10/15/13 8:30pm

Police in New Jersey, home of the world’s most petty opportunists, say that a woman “charmed” her way into her neighbor’s house with cupcakes before swiping his car keys, ten dollars in change, and his childlike trust in baked goods. » 9/08/13 2:00pm 9/08/13 2:00pm

A mother and son out of Preston, Minnesota are currently being charged with the theft of nearly $5,000 worth of gophers' feet that a local trapper alleges were stolen from his freezer. » 6/19/13 2:15pm 6/19/13 2:15pm

Thirty-seven-year-old South Carolina man Christopher Maurice Morton has been charged with stealing nearly $19 thousand worth of Girl Scout cookies from a warehouse in Spartanburg. The theft was noticed on February 26th when workers at the Carey Moving and Storage company did inventory and discovered that over 50 cases… » 3/07/13 10:25am 3/07/13 10:25am

Things tend to disappear in Roanoke, which probably makes the community's legal apparatus all the more sensitive to instances of theft. A former nurses' assistant has been sentenced to five years in prison after she was found guilty on Tuesday of stealing four wedding bands from patients she helped care for at the… » 9/26/12 10:00am 9/26/12 10:00am

In the ultimate consumer advocacy fantasy, a Brooklyn woman tracked down the thief who went on a shopping spree with her pilfered wallet based solely on quick thinking and intuition. » 8/29/12 4:50pm 8/29/12 4:50pm

Stealing something by stuffing it up your skirt is an age-old criminal trick, but for some reason a woman in Staten Island recently decided to employ it to steal a bunch of prawns from Costco, which just seems nasty. After all, who wants to eat a prawn that's been between your legs? Apparently Krystal Douglas, 26, and… » 6/15/12 9:30am 6/15/12 9:30am

A woman in California has been slapped with $7,600 in fines and ordered to stay away from public libraries after it was discovered that she had stolen thousands of library books and was attempting to sell them online. For shame, California book stealer. » 2/22/12 8:15pm 2/22/12 8:15pm

Kids usually don't think before they steal, but you can bet 13-year-old Natia Wade never thought she'd end up standing on the corner of a busy intersection holding up a hand-written sign that read, "I steal from my family." Wade, who lives in Memphis, ended up there after she racked up a record of taking things—mostly… » 2/15/12 10:30pm 2/15/12 10:30pm

In a nice turn of events (for once!), last night an adorable squirrel monkey who'd been stolen from the San Francisco Zoo was returned to his owners unharmed after missing for two days. The monkey, whose name is Banana Sam (which might be the perfect monkey name) was "hungry, trembling and thirsty" when he was… » 1/01/12 6:30pm 1/01/12 6:30pm

Two men are wanted by police after they approached a group of Girl Scouts outside a Wal-Mart in Bowie, Maryland, asked how much their cookies were, and then stole their cash box. The thieves were not only mean but also dumb, because they did not take any cookies. » 11/10/11 1:10pm 11/10/11 1:10pm

You've had enough time to consider whether it's wrong for a man to steal a loaf of bread to feed his starving family, and now there's a new question to ponder: Is it wrong for a tired and hungry pregnant lady to consume a chicken salad sandwich in the grocery store before she gets to the checkout? Though it was a… » 11/04/11 9:50am 11/04/11 9:50am

The Army is warning online daters about a disturbing form of scam: thieves pose as US soldiers stationed overseas, pledge their (fake) love to women, and then bilk them out of thousands. Some scammers even steal the identity of actual servicemen to make their pleas more plausible. » 11/03/11 4:00pm 11/03/11 4:00pm