Would-Be Thief Is Duct-Taped to Pole
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GEORGETOWN, Guyana - A would-be thief got a taste of his own medicine in Guyana when he was caught and attached to a utility pole with the same duct tape he intended to use to bind a family and rob them, police said Tuesday.
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Someone seems pretty desperate to reinflate this hissing balloon.
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An escaped prisoner accused in the videotaped kidnapping of a lawyer who was grabbed at gunpoint outside her loft was captured Saturday after authorities acting on a tip swarmed an apartment where he was discovered hiding in a closet.
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KALISPELL, Mont. - Deputies were taken aback during a chase involving a suspected burglar. He signaled his upcoming turns, Flathead County Sheriff's Sgt. Ernie Freebury said Tuesday.
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An iPhone owner has hacked his device so that it can record video.
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Police say a tipster may have helped them crack a nut-nabbing syndicate.
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VANCOUVER, Wash. - A man who failed to look before he swallowed and wound up choking on someone else's tobacco spit has been arrested in the theft of a tractor-trailer rig, police said.
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A Massachusetts police department posts a surveillance video clip on YouTube to help ID two men using allegedly stolen credit cards on tape. By the Associated Press.
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GREENSBURG, Pa. - A man accused of theft arrived for a preliminary hearing Thursday wearing a cardboard box on his head in an effort to conceal his identity.
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EAST GREENWICH, N.J. - An expectant mother who climbed over a fence topped with razor wire to escape from the Gloucester County Women's Correctional Facility was captured Friday, authorities said...
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Help! An attempted burglary of a Liverpool sports store was foiled after a vulture-eyed viewer of a Beatles-related webcam alerted police.â¦
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AIKEN, S.C. - A robber who used a rusty pitchfork to stick up a bank got away - and so far, finding him has been like looking for a needle in a haystack...
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LONDON - It wasn't your typical highspeed chase. A pedicab operator was pressed into action by two policewomen trying to nab a fugitive last Friday.
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GREENWOOD, Ind. - Police were searching for a man who gave a $20 tip to a gas station clerk he had just held up. Police were distributing surveillance camera photographs taken during the Nov. 4 robbery of the gas station convenience store in Greenwood, just south of Indianapolis.
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It wasn't Santa Claus but a would-be burglar that rescue workers found stuck up a chimney in central Australia on Friday.
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EDINA, Minn. - The FBI says it may have reeled in the "Fishing Hat Bandit," a bank robber who has pulled 23 holdups in the Twin Cities area over the past year and a half.
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The inflatable cartoon character was returned yesterday, and police say that the person who brought it back attributed to theft to a teenage prank.