Crime

Men arrested after police discover cocaine haul stashed in fake buttocks
23:44 2018-02-14

The two cushion-like implants, which were attached to swimming trunks, contained at least 5,000 individual portions of cocaine. Two men have been arrested after 1kg (2.2lb) of cocaine was found in a pair of fake buttocks at Lisbon Airport. A Brazilian man carrying the two cushion-like implants, which were attached to a pair of swimming …

Italian-born thief, 23, who says ‘a haircut is better than any therapist’ and stole designer gear worth thousands is caught out shoplifting sunglasses in Tesco
00:09 2018-02-07

A thief who stole designer clothes worth thousands and boasted ‘a haircut is better than any therapist’ was caught out trying to shoplift sunglasses in Tesco. Dragos Patrunjel, 23, from Swindon, grew up in Italy where he acquired a taste for dressing well, according to his defence solicitor. When police raided his home they found …

Hacked Japanese cryptocurrency exchange to repay owners $425 million
20:11 2018-01-28

Tokyo-based cryptocurrency exchange Coincheck said on Sunday it would return about 46.3 billion yen ($425 million) of the virtual money it lost to hackers two days ago in one of the biggest-ever thefts of digital money. That amounts to nearly 90 percent of the 58 billion yen worth of NEM coins the company lost in …

10 Dangerous Criminals Who Could Be Released In 2018
01:15 2018-01-27

No matter what you think of your country’s legal system, you cannot deny that some people belong locked up behind bars for a very long time. Every year in the United States alone, 636,000 people are released from prison. Add this up with the rest of the world, and you have a large number of …

Parents ‘locked their adopted 5-year-old son in a dark basement infested and forced him to eat carrots until his skin turned orange
05:06 2017-08-26

A married couple from Utah have been charged with felony child abuse for allegedly keeping their adopted five-year-old son locked in a dark basement without access to a bathroom and feeding him a steady diet of carrots that turned his skin orange. On August 3, detectives with the Utah County Sheriff’s Office arrested Clarissa Anne …