Florida Woman Arrested After Leaving $5,000 Tip Using Boyfriend’s Credit Card to Get Back at Him
What appeared as an amazingly generous gesture turned out to be an act of revenge, after a Florida woman left a $5,000 tip to a waitress using her boyfriend’s credit card to get back at him after an argument. 24-year-old Serina Wolfe was arrested on Monday on a felony theft charge for allegedly using her […]
Spanish Woman Allegedly Files Complaint Against Hitman Who Failed to Carry Out Crime
Spanish police reported that a woman who hired her son-in-law to kill her partner recently turned up to file a complaint against him after he failed to live up to his end of the bargain. Earlier this month, an unnamed woman and her daughter went to a police station in central Madrid to file two […]
Scammers Use Silicone Mask to Impersonate French Minister, Swindle $90 Million
In what has been described as one of the most daring rackets in history, one or more individuals used a silicone mask to impersonate France’s minister of defense, Jean-Yves Le Drian, and scam an estimated €80 million ($90 million) from wealthy victims. Jean-Yves Le Drian served as France’s defense minister from 2012 to 2017, and […]
Man Sentenced to Life in Prison for Alleged Plane Hijacking Hoax Meant to Get His Wife Fired
An Indian businessman who allegedly staged a stupid plane hijacking hoax to get his wife fired by the airline so they could spend more time together was recently sentenced to life in prison. Birju Salla, the 38-year-old scion of a wealthy family of jewellers based in Mumbai, became the first person to be sentenced under […]
Dutch Police Fight Drug Crime with Ecstasy-Scented Perfume
Police in the Netherlands are offering samples of a special MDMA-scented perfume to the public in the hopes that it will help people detect and report drug labs when they pass by them. Despite the best efforts of Dutch police to curb drug manufacturing and traffic, the Netherlands is still considered the MDMA production capital […]
Mexicans Are Buying Fake Phones to Hand Over When Robbed
Armed robberies have become so common in Mexico City that people have started buying fake smartphones to hand over to trigger-happy criminals who would rather shoot them than leave empty-handed. Walking on the street or getting on public transportation in Mexico City have become increasingly risky affairs. According to recently released data, there were an average […]
Chinese Man Gets Ten Days in Jail for Giving His Dogs “Illegal” Names
A young dog breeder in eastern China was recently arrested and sentenced to ten days in a detention center after giving two of his canines controversial names that refer to Chinese government and civil service workers. The 30-year-old man, surnamed Ban, was summoned by police on Monday, after posting on Chinese social network WeChat that he […]
Man Fakes Inability to Walk for a Decade to Collect Disability Pension
An Italian man who went to great lengths to convince everyone that he had lost the ability to walk after being involved in a staged car accident 12 years ago was recently exposed as a fraud. The incredible story of Roberto Guglielmi, an Italian con artist who managed to fool everyone, including doctors, neighbors and even […]
Father Allegedly Staged Home Invasion to Cover Up Stealing Daughter’s Girl Scouts Cookie Sales
A 40-year-old Oregon has been arrested for allegedly staging an elaborate home invasion to cover up the theft of his daughter’s Girl Scout cookie sales. On March 6 the Forest Grove Police Department responded to a 911 call for a possible break-and-enter and assault. When officers arrived at the scene of the alleged crime, they found […]
Man Spikes Co-Workers’ Drinks with LSD Because They Had “Negative Energy”
A 19-year-old Missouri man admitted to spiking co-workers’ drinks with LSD because they were “too uptight” and “needed to have better energy”. What’s the fastest way to change your co-workers’ mood and help them relax? Well, according to a young Enterprise Rent-A-Car employee, lacing their drinks with strong mood-altering drugs without telling them is one way of […]
Chinese Police Mocked for Using Alleged Criminal’s Childhood Photo for Wanted Poster
Police in Zhenxiong, China’s Yunnan province recently apologized after being ridiculed online for using a 17-year-old suspected criminal’s childhood photo for a wanted poster, because they couldn’t find a more recent one. Look at those chubby cheeks! Does this look like the face of someone who could commit gang crimes and other violent offences? Well, technically, […]
Ghost in Girl’s Apartment Turns Out to Be Total Stranger Hiding in the Closet And Wearing Her Clothes
A North Carolina university student who thought her apartment was haunted after things started disappearing was shocked to find a creepy man hiding in her closet and wearing her clothes. The female student, who only wanted to be identified as Maddie, had grown to think that the off-campus apartment she shared with a roommate was […]
Former Inmate Robs Bank Just So He Can Go Back to Prison
William J. Gallagher, a 68-year-old career criminal who had just been released from prison after a 20-year sentence, recently robbed a Wisconsin bank, with the sole purpose of getting arrested and sent back to prison. Six months after finishing his 20-year prison sentence at a penitentiary in New Jersey for attempted homicide, Gallagher took an […]
79-Year-Old Man Vandalizes Over 1,000 Cars in One Year
For over a decade, residents of the O Calvario and A Doblada neighborhoods in the Spanish city of Vigo have been living in fear of finding their cars scratched or with toothpicks jammed in the keyhole. The culprit? A 79-year-old man who has reportedly vandalized over 1,000 cars in the last year alone. Most often than […]
Insurance Agent Tries to Scam Clients by Posing as Harry Potter’s Lord Voldemort
An insurance agent in Singapore recently got himself arrested after attempting to scam clients by sending them threatening letters signed by “Lord Voldermort”, a misspelling of Lord Voldemort, the main antagonist of the popular Harry Potter books. Ye Lin Myint, a Myanmar national working for the Singapore branch of Prudential Insurance, targeted potential or former clients […]