Topic: - on March 7, 2003 at 5:54:13 PM CET
Federal agents called in to investigate stolen sandwich
Federal authorities in Des Moines, Iowa, were called to the city's airport after a peanut butter sandwich was reported stolen.
The Transportation Security Administration was called because only 16 federal security workers had access to the room from where the sandwich was taken.
Christine Woods reported her sandwich was taken from a break room which is controlled by punching a code into a keypad.
Police took a report, but suspended the investigation and turned it over to the TSA.
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Topic: - on March 5, 2003 at 1:06:13 PM CET
Conmen uncork vintage wine scam
Police arrested three young Romanian men and found 900 bottles of wine and champagne in a shed in a Paris suburb. They said the wine was destined to be sold on to restaurants at a comfortable profit.
Police said on Tuesday that the conmen donned suits to minimise suspicion as they replaced shop barcodes with barcode stickers of their own to fool supermarket checkout machines.
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Topic: - on February 4, 2003 at 12:04:47 PM CET
Highway 400 in Toronto closed after flurries of money sweep roadway
Flurries of cash blew across a major highway Sunday after a movie theatre thief dropped the money during his getaway.
"A lone gunman handcuffed two employees, took a sum of money and left on foot like he was scared off by somebody or something," said Det. Lou Malbeuf, after Sunday morning's heist at the Famous Players Colossus theatre just north of Toronto.
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Topic: - on February 4, 2003 at 11:19:02 AM CET
900 piglets stolen from farm
Police are appealing for witnesses after thieves stole 900 piglets from a farm in Greater Manchester.
The animals - all aged between three weeks and three months - were taken from the farm off Beech Walk, Standish, on Friday night.
Police say several people must have been involved in the theft, which would have taken several hours.
The animals are worth about £40,000.
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Topic: - on January 30, 2003 at 6:55:01 AM CET
Man held over 100 human skulls
A MAN who was carrying 100 human skulls in a bag has been arrested in the east Indian city of Siliguri. He was arrested while waiting for a bus to Sikkim.
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Topic: - on January 29, 2003 at 11:06:24 AM CET
Dont break windows in Jamaica
A Jamaican man who spent 29 years in jail without trial for allegedly breaking a window has reached an out-of-court settlement with the government, a human rights lawyer said.
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Topic: - on January 25, 2003 at 10:22:54 PM CET
Police letter asks criminals to please go straight
Police unveiled their latest tactic in the fight against crime today – a polite letter kindly asking persistent offenders to mend their ways.
The unusual tactic of appealing to crooks' better natures has been adopted by a police inspector who is fed up with the time and effort spent by his officers chasing around after a small number of hard-core criminals.
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Topic: - on January 25, 2003 at 12:08:43 PM CET
Police Shoot Teddy at Jehovah's Witness Hall
A Danish bomb squad shot to pieces a teddy bear left on the doorstep of a Jehovah's Witness hall on Thursday evening with a note saying it contained a bomb, police said.
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Topic: - on January 24, 2003 at 8:04:17 PM CET
Zigaretten-Schmuggler war ein LKA-Spitzel
Im Zusammenhang mit dem Ermittlungsverfahren gegen den Tabak-Riesen Reemstma ist ein dubioser Kontakt zu den Behörden aufgeflogen: Einer der beschuldigten Zigaretten -Schmuggler belieferte jahrelang das Landeskriminalamt mit Infos und blieb so unbehelligt. Die Behörde gerät nun in Erklärungsnot.
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Topic: - on January 22, 2003 at 10:31:11 AM CET
3 Floridians Arrested With $800,000 In Stolen Levis
Four men, including at least three Miami residents, were arrested near Cincinnati after police said they found 1,125 boxes of stolen Levi jeans worth an estimated $800,000 in a warehouse.
The tractor-trailer was taken from a truck stop in Walton, Ky., police said.
Bond for each man was set at $1 million Monday because police could not confirm their identities and feared they would flee if released.
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Topic: - on January 21, 2003 at 4:59:27 PM CET
Police not amused at drunk driver's smiley
A man who erased his drink-driving record from a police computer and replaced it with a winking "smiley face" graphic ended up with a suspended licence and a fine when police failed to see the funny side.
The 19-year-old computer whiz had been arrested for drunk driving and summoned to appear in court in Besancon, in eastern France, the French daily Liberation reported on Tuesday.
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Topic: - on January 20, 2003 at 2:48:55 PM CET
Shirtless woman joyrides in stolen police cruiser
A woman who played police officer for two hours in a stolen Loveland cruiser Saturday night wasn't wearing a gun or a badge.
Or a shirt.
But police said that didn't stop 22-year-old Amanda Briles - who has a lengthy arrest record - from pulling at least two people over and giving them verbal warnings.
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