The Case of a Sign Painter and Theft: On Page 1, a Paper Leads to a Suspect
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Subscribers to Idahoâs Lewiston Tribune  did not need to be the brightest bulbs on the Christmas tree to notice something odd on the front page Dec. 13.
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A New York state employee who had access to government-owned archives has been arrested on suspicion of stealing hundreds of historic documents, many of which he sold on eBay, authorities said on Monday.
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Art is an exceedingly dumb thing to steal. But then, the art thief, in general, is not the brightest paint in the box.
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A state archivist was charged Monday with stealing hundreds of artifacts Â documents representing "the heritage of all Americans," according to the history buff who found some of them on eBay Â to pay his household bills.
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The companyÂs sleuths produced an 18-page report that reads at times like a whodunit, at other times like a dissertation.
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Swiss media reported Monday that paintings stolen in one of Europe's largest art thefts may have been discovered in a parking lot in front of a Zurich mental hospital.
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As he leafed through the newspaper Wednesday morning, acting Police Chief James Cavallo thought there was something awfully familiar about the bank robbery suspect pictured in a grainy surveillance photo.
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Here&#39;s a tip: If you steal a printer used to print driver&#39;s licenses, don&#39;t call the manufacturer asking for driver software.It&#39;s a lesson that Timothy Scott Short learned all too well this month, when he got arrested after placing a couple of calls to Digimarc&#39;s tech support line.Short, 33, is facing felony charges for possession of &quot;document-making implements&quot; in connection with the theft of a Digimarc printer used by the state of Missouri to manufacture driver&#39;s licenses.The printer, along with a PC, were stolen on the evening of Oct. 5 from the St. Charles contract office of the Missouri Department of Revenue, said Trish Vincent, director of the department. These offices are run by individuals who are subcontracted by the department to issue driver&#39;s licenses, Vincent said. The pilfered printer could be used to produce a license, Vincent said.The PC, however, was locked with a key, and because the key was stored in a secure location, the PC was unusable to the thief, said Vincent.So what do you do when you have a stolen driver&#39;s license printer, but can&#39;t use the PC that goes with it? Enter Digimarc&#39;s tech support line.According to a sworn statement by Secret Service Special Agent John Bush, someone who identified himself as &quot;Scott&quot; called Digimarc two days later and asked if he could buy printer drivers for the model of printer that had been swiped from the St. Charles office.The Secret Service agent later listened to a recording of this call and recognized Short&#39;s voice from a prior investigation, Bush said. The caller also gave Digimarc the same phone number Short had used in an unrelated identity theft case, Bush said.Short was charged on Oct. 11, and is facing 10 years in prison and a $250,000 fine, according to court filings.&quot;The stolen equipment contains the identifying information and photographs of between 200 to 500 Missouri residents,&quot; Bush said in the statement. &quot;The only use of the equipment is the manufacture of state identification documents.&quot;The state has sent notification letters to those affected by the theft, Vincent said. The computer contained name, address, and date of birth data, but not Social Security numbers, she added.Digimarc declined to explain how the Secret Service ended up listening to its customer support calls. &quot;Because of a confidentiality agreement with our customer and because this is a criminal matter, we are not able to comment on the incident,&quot; said Digimarc spokeswoman Leslie Constans.
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Prosecutors point to a jailhouse letter as evidence of a terrorism defendant's guilt. Problem is, it doesn't look like he wrote it
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The thieves might not have known much about art, but they apparently knew what they liked: cash.Comment
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A Dutch newspaper receives an anonymous letter purporting to contain information on missing Madeleine McCann's whereabouts.
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BLOOMINGTON, Ind. - A thief used a hook and line not to snag fish, but to remove bags of cash from a bank's night deposit box, police said.  Police would not say how much money they believe was taken, but think the thief made off with 11 deposit bags, Bloomington police Sgt.
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Patrolman Brian Johnson of the Franklin, Mass., Police Department studied a surveillance video showing two men using allegedly stolen credit cards at a Home Depot.But when Johnson didn't recognize either man, he decided to involve people - a lot of them - to help crack the case.
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Counterfeiters who make $10 bills on printers could find the cops on their trail if tracking techniques pan out.
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By Rich Hofmann, Philadelphia Daily News  Sep. 18--THE CRIME-SCENE investigators will be at work for days here -- such was the scope of the abomination that took place yesterday afternoon in South Philadelphia. The dusting for fingerprints went fairly quickly, though.
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An Andy Warhol painting that a man tried to consign to Christieâs auction house turned out to be listed as stolen.
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In many instances, stolen art masterpieces are recovered almost out of the blue, long after investigators have stopped actively pursuing leads.