The Oakland California City Council voted 5–3 to fine a couple $915,135 – almost a million dollars – for illegally cutting down protected trees. Back in 2021, Matthew Bernard and Lynn Warner cut down 38 trees on their hillside lot, and a neighbor’s lot, and a city-owned lot, without permits, including mature oak trees worth…
An employee at a Taco Bell in in West Palm Beach, Florida, allegedly shot at three women who tried to snag free soda from his restaurant. Police said the three women each asked for a cup of water. One of them then walked over to the soda fountain and started filling up her cup with…
A Texas mother of three was arrested for allegedly helping her husband run a prostitution ring out of her family’s house. The prostitutes were mostly frequented by local cops and city officials. Ashley Ketcherside was arrested on racketeering charges following her husband’s arrest. When her husband was arrested, Mrs. Ketcherside told local news she was…
A Los Angeles burglar stole a 21-piece, $58,000 sofa set from a downtown furniture store. The theft occurred at Merit, a high-end furniture store in downtown Los Angeles. The furniture set was a Mah Jong sofa by Roche Bobois. It’s a sectional – seven loveseat-sized sections, each sitting on platform, with each piece weiging 30…
Paintings worth millions of dollars by Renoir, Cézanne and Matisse were stolen from a museum in a three-minute heist. Four masked thieves broke into the Magnani Rocca museum near Parma in northern Italy and removed the artworks in the middle of the night. They might have taken more, but the alarm scared them off. Taken…
Two women in Grant Parish, Texas were arrested after they disguised drones to look like crows and attempted to fly contraband into a federal prison. The sheriff says Melanie Jean Worthington and Kassy Marie Cole used a drone to fly in plastic crow decoys filled with drugs, cellphones and tobacco. It is not currently clear…
A car was stopped outside the Moorlands prison in Doncaster, England, and when South Yorkshire Police searched it, they found a monkey and some crack cocaine. The monkey – a young marmoset believed to be a pet – was safely removed from the vehicle and taken to an animal sanctuary. Two women in their 20s…
In Huber Heights, Ohio, a wanted suspect trying to evade cops was discovered hiding from police in a trash can. Just his luck, it was trash pickup day. Cops had been on the lookout for the man since he fled a traffic stop nearby. Officers in a patrol car just happened to pull up behind…
A 26-year-old man was arrested for robbery Wednesday in Newark, Delaware. Police knew it was him because he left a shoe at the scene of the crime. Officers were called to a property on a report of a robbery. They saw two people fleeing the residence. They grabbed one guy before they determined that he…
A shipment of live lobsters worth $400,000 (* So, what, about 20 lobsters?) was hijacked while en route to Costco locations in Illinois and Minnesota. The FBI believes it to be the work of an organized criminal ring targeting high-end products. Current market prices for lobster vary between $17 and $47 per pound. The shipment…