Theft

After her car was stolen, a Missouri woman became an amateur investigator, tracking down the thieves and stealing her own vehicle back.

The victim was slammed to the ground on the gas station forecourt after being trapped behind the driver's door of the escaping thief's vehicle.

Store owner Bailey Lehrer said he also left "quite a mess in the bathroom."

David Reiter is accused of spending the cash on car and mortgage payments, general spending and a number of family trips.

Robert Brower, 45, was paid to repair the home of a Hurricane Sandy victim. Instead, prosecutors say he stole the money.

It was only after taking the pills that Peter Emery "believed were hydrocodone" that he started to suspect there was something fishy and allegedly told the police that he figured out that "they were something else."

Prosecutors in Washoe and Douglas counties hope to file murder charges in the coming days.

Alleged plot went down with a California Lottery Scratcher ticket.

Wiggins is accused of splashing the cash on clothes, hotel stays and hefty personal checks.

"Too bad it wasn't a hot sandwich—that would have provided instant karma to the pilferer," police said.

Local residents were woken late Monday by a huge explosion.

Robert Palma and William Erlbacker, both of Concow, California, were nabbed and charged for looting, theft of a vehicle and possession of stolen property, according to a release by CalFire.

Items were taken from Sydney University's teaching collection.

The teacher racked up a bill of more than $2,100.

The suspect was a steroid user who worked at nightclubs as a bouncer and strip dancer, according to his cousin.

A 56-year-old man complained after 100,000 units of Ripple, a cryptocurrency, were stolen from his digital wallet.

Ben Hodges spoke of "an increasingly tense relationship and increasing competition in all the different domains."

The suspect was indicted Tuesday for stealing "pre-retail" prescription medications, mislabeling them so as to "defraud or mislead," misusing someone's health information and violating a court order preventing him from packing a firearm.

A man from Russia's northern city of Severomorsk faces up to two years in prison after an ATM dispensed up to $2,000 instead of rubles.

Seven people were arrested and booked into Alameda County Jail.

Dhimitri Andoni, 22, was killed after stopping to help another driver who lost control of their vehicle.

Looters and burglars have taken advantage of evacuated North Carolina coastal communities during Hurricane Florence.

The man held off three assailants using only his trusty pipe.

Adesh Khamra is believed to have been the leader of a gang of killers operating for the past eight years.

The shop owner said they won't be much good "unless you have two right feet."

Johnathan Miquel Brittain, 36, Colby Adam Humphries, 28, and Ronnie Dale Norton II, 31, all from Anniston, Alabama, were arrested and charged in the thefts of as many as 150 bronze vases that were taken from grave sites at at least two cemeteries and sold to a local scrap metal shop, according to authorities and court records obtained by Newsweek.

The guns can fetch up to $10,000 each on the black market.

Police caught the fruit fiend on Grapefruit Boulevard.

Forest Park police officer Ashley Meyer, 35, was accused of theft while in office, drug trafficking and drug possession, for stealing pills and selling them through a third party, according to court documents.

At least three of his victims were transsexual prostitutes.