NY burglar caught red-handed in air conditioner
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Police arrested a suspected burglar who got stuck in the casing of an air conditioner that had been removed, his head and arms dangling out of the grocery store wall with the rest of his body inside.
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It was an inelegant intruder on a sunny afternoon: a chunk of ice from a jetliner toilet that broke free and slammed into an Austrian family's garden.
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AMSTERDAM, Netherlands - A pair of Dutch burglars' bad luck shifted into high gear when they were caught fleeing the scene of an attempted break-in on bicycles belonging to the very policeman who arrested them.    Police in a suburb of the eastern Dutch city of Nijmegen said the hapless burglars were trying to break into a house Sunday when neighbors alerted the police...
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SAN FRANCISCO - A Haight-Ashbury man returning home from an extended vacation tripped and fell on a corpse in his bedroom after finding his apartment had been ransacked, police said.
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Police said Wednesday a woman who lives at the home found the intruder Sept. 27 and called police. A police dog tried to track the intruder but the person got away.
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BURGLARS were caught red-handed when a holidaymaker saw them break into his home on his laptop computer.   John Ellison, 52, was alerted to the intruders by an automatic call to his mobile phone while on holiday in Spain.
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LAKE PLACID, N.Y. - A mayoral candidate known for walking around town with a parrot on his shoulder has been charged with burglary, accused of stealing an acquaintance's Dirt Devil vacuum. The bird apparently gave him away.
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A burglar who broke into a house in the Dutch town of Tiel on Wednesday night could not resist playing the piano he found there after ransacking the living room, police said on Thursday.
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MEMPHIS, Tenn. - A masked robber who beat his victim was remorseful enough to take the man to the hospital for treatment, but his change of heart didn't last long. Within hours the thief was telephoning threats to the victim, who was an acquaintance, authorities said.
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Thanks to a "Bob the Builder" sock, police in the Dutch town of 't Zandt say they have caught their main suspect in a string of arson attacks: a 20 year-old caught red-handed setting another fire late on Tuesday.
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A man is stabbed to death in his home by an intruder who police believe could have been a burglar.
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A bungling German thief stole a pair of shoes in two different sizes and was caught when he went back to the shop to fix his mistake -- decked out in the very clothes he had stolen, authorities said on Friday.
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RUTLAND, Vt. - A man who helped his friend fake a fall that had actually occurred during a botched burglary in another town could go to prison for it. Louis Stevens, 43, pleaded guilty Wednesday to fraud under a plea deal calling for up to 20 years in prison.
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BUCKINGHAM, Pa. - A man is accused of using an air compressor to defeat an ignition interlock device.  Michael Simo, 41, had the device installed in his car after being convicted of multiple drunken driving offenses.
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FARGO, N.D. - Police say two suspects in a botched burglary were caught after they returned to the crime scene. Sgt. Kevin Volrath said the two men were confronted by owners of the home they allegedly tried to burglarize Monday night, and the suspects fled.
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LAGUNA NIGUEL, Calif. - A woman outsmarted an apparently drug-addled burglar who threatened her with a sword, authorities said. Robin Ricketts, 52, said she awoke early Thursday when she heard strange noises coming from her home office.
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The inspiration for CrimeReports.com came a decade ago when Greg Whisenant made the mistake of letting a stranger, who turned out to be a burglar, into his apartment building in Arlington, Va.