Articles Tagged with ''theft prevention''

In Arizona, law enforcement just broke up a copper theft ring that stole $10 million in the metal. In Kansas, an energy firm hit by thefts said it will make ratepayers cover the losses.

Labor lawyers state that employees are often coerced into confessing, leading to a permanent blight on their employment records.

The FBI said it has identified the thieves who pulled off the 1990 theft of 13 artworks from Boston's Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, which stands as the costliest art theft in U.S. history.

It only took eight hands of poker for a whale, what casinos call a well recognized, big stakes bettor, being unfairly fed information on the hands of others, to scam players at an Australian casino of an estimated $33 million.

A foreign gambler infiltrated Australia's biggest casino's surveillance system to spy on other player's cards and pulled off a USD 33 million fraud.

A judge has ordered the owner of a scrap yard where the remains of several stolen school buses were found held in lieu of bail on a charge unrelated to the case.

A group of thieves took only 11 minutes to escape an airport with hundreds of millions of dollars-worth of diamonds and precious metals.

More than a dozen ambulances were recovered this week in a northwest Houston scrap yard, and law enforcement officials believe the ambulances are among dozens more that were stolen. GPS in vehicles played a role.

The statute of limitations on the 11-year-old crime is past, the FBI reports, and the armored car company heist has never been solved.