theft
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British Museum Asks Public for Help Locating Stolen Artifacts
The British Museum is asking the public for help to recover several stolen artifacts on a webpage launched on Tuesday. The museum dismissed an unnamed employee over the summer for allegedly stealing artifacts and reported in a press release that an investigation by the Metropolitan Police Service is underway. Recovery specialists advised the British Museum…
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A Hacked Together ‘Game Boy’ Was Used To Steal Cars in the UK
‘Piracy. It’s a crime.’, but so is stealing cars, and turns out three men in the UK didn’t get the 2004 PSA. They were charged this week with using a Nintendo Game Boy ‘gizmo’ to break into cars. They didn’t use a Game Boy in place of a brick to smash windows with it, no,…
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Crypto Traders Cut Out the Middleman, Simply Rob Victim
Two alleged crypto traders in Singapore apparently came up with a fool-proof plan: rather than convert a customer’s 365,000 Singapore dollars to bitcoin, they would simply rob the victim when he came in to do the trade.
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‘Free Exotic Animals’: Dozens Of Animals Stolen From Wildlife Sanctuary After Fake Craigslist Ad
On Sunday morning local time, someone took 13 tortoises, seven birds, seven ring-tailed lemurs, five marmosets and four monkeys from the We Care Wildlife Sanctuary in Miami, loaded all the animals into a truck, and drove off.