theft

Scammers are stealing users content on social media to create fake Instagram accounts to lure in victims by promising huge returns on cryptocurrency.

A recent surge in home break-ins and brazen shoplifting has some San Francisco residents feeling that the city they fell in love with is in decline.

The health-care executive joined a growing number of executives who have expressed concern about the rise in organized crimes.

The incident was part of a spree of smash-and-grab and flash-mob thefts in November that police said resulted in roughly $330,000 in losses for roughly 10 retailers.

An elderly Montgomery County man was sentenced to one day in prison for selling a rare Revolutionary-era rifle that he stole from a Pennsylvania museum decades ago.

Best Buy CEO Corie Barry said employees may be more likely to quit after being traumatized by rising incidents of theft by organized, sometimes armed, groups.

The recovered vehicle, a Dodge charger, was reported stolen in October out of Chicago.

Surveillance video shows a chaotic crowd of people wearing masks and hooded sweatshirts bursting into the Oak Brook Luis Vuitton store.

Police in suburban Oak Brook say that more than a dozen suspects were involved in a grab-and-run theft at the Louis Vuitton store at Oakbrook Center Wednesday afternoon.

Hackers exploited a vulnerability in a protocol called Poly Network stealing more than $600 million worth of cryptocurrency.

A Los Angeles nun who took a vow of poverty has agreed to plead guilty to federal charges for stealing more than $800,000 to pay for a gambling habit.

A neighbor captured the moment the thieves sped off with the victim holding onto the car in San Francisco.

A Massachusetts woman is not only mourning the loss of her 84-year-old grandmother but is also searching exhaustively for her nana’s missing wedding ring, which she says was stolen.

A store employee chased after two people who stole a dog from a store in Houston and drove off. At one point, the woman jumps onto the speeding car.

A man is facing charges after allegedly stealing an ambulance and crashing Sunday in Austin on the West Side. Levar Beecham, 43, was charged with a felony count of possession of a stolen vehicle and a misdemeanor count of driving without a license, Chicago police said. Beecham allegedly jumped into an ambulance about 2:30 p.m. in the 5100 block of…

At least nine vehicles left running with keys in their ignitions have been stolen in the last month on the South and Southwest sides. The thefts, which date back to Feb. 2, happened in Bridgeport, McKinley Park, Brighton Park, Gage Park and Back of the Yards, according to a community alert from Chicago police. They occurred: about 10 p.m. Feb….

Chicago police are warning residents of a pair of recent burglaries reported in Hyde Park on the South Side. In each incident, someone breaks into the basement of an apartment building and steals coins from inside the washing and drying machines, Chicago police said in a community alert. The burglaries happened: Between 2 a.m. and 10 a.m. Jan. 26, in…

Ten iPhones were stolen Wednesday morning from the Oakbrook Center Apple Store, Oak Brook police said. According to police, Oakbrook Center security saw on surveillance video three suspects grab several iPhones and run out of the store Wednesday morning. The estimated value of the loss is up to $10,000, police said. According to police, the three suspects fled in a…

Police in a northwest Indiana town are looking for a real-life Grinch who was caught on camera stealing holiday decorations from city officials. The woman is accused of stealing $300 worth of branches and other items as Chesterton employees prepared to decorate 12 town-owned planters before Thanksgiving last week. “We had all of our materials spread out on the ground,”…

Video from a jewelry store in Chesteron, Indiana shows a woman who was accused of stealing some of the town’s decor as city officials prepared for Christmas.