A 16-year-old high school student and two men were arrested Monday for allegedly robbing a man of a bag containing about ¥72 million ($650,900) in cash in Tokyo's posh Ginza shopping district in April, police said. Okito Ogasawara, 20, Yuta Kurata, 23, and the teen ...
O.J. Simpson was granted parole Thursday after serving more than eight years in prison for a Las Vegas hotel-room heist, successfully making his case for freedom in a nationally televised hearing that reflected America's enduring fascination with the former football star. Simpson, 70, could be ...
A gunman killed himself after bursting into a Manila casino, firing shots and setting gaming tables alight, Philippine police said, sowing panic in a country on high alert after martial law was declared in the south. Police said earlier the man's motive was likely robbery ...
Kazuhiro Hara was arrested — and he lost customers — after tipping off police about a planned robbery and following a police request to assist preparations for the crime. Hara, a 45-year-old manager of a used car business in Saga is worried that others may ...
Dozens of suspected Brazilian gangsters blasted into a secure vault containing millions of dollars in southeastern Paraguay on Monday, leaving a policeman dead in what officials called the "robbery of the century." Some 50 gunmen with explosives and military-grade weaponry left the city of Ciudad ...
A self-employed man in his 40s was robbed of ¥40 million in cash during a daylight mugging in Tokyo's busy Ginza district Friday afternoon. According to the Metropolitan Police Department's Tsukiji Police Station, the mugging, believed to involve three men, took place on Suzuran Street ...
The Tokyo gold dealer who was robbed of ¥384 million in cash in a Fukuoka parking lot was likely under close surveillance before the heist, police say.
Thieves broke into the German capital's Bode Museum before dawn Monday and made off with a massive 100-kg (221-pound) gold coin worth millions of dollars, police said. Police spokesman Stefen Petersen said thieves apparently entered through a window about 3:30 a.m. Monday, broke into a ...
Gold bars worth ¥600 million ($5 million) were stolen by men disguised as police officers in the city of Fukuoka sometime around spring this year, investigative sources said Wednesday. According to the sources, a group of men on the way to a cash-for-gold store was ...
Sad and angry, the Chinese community in Rome on Sunday paid tribute to a student fatally hit by a train while pursuing muggers who had stolen her purse with her just-issued residency permit. An aspiring fashion designer, 20-year-old Zhang Yao arrived in the Italian capital ...
New York police are searching for a green-clad man who swiped an 86-pound (39 kg) pail of gold flakes off an armored truck two months ago and disappeared with the estimated $1.6 million in treasure. The city's police department late Tuesday released photos and video ...
Reality star Kim Kardashian jetted home to the United States on Monday to be comforted by husband Kanye West, after being tied up at gunpoint in Paris and robbed of jewelry worth $10 million. The multimillionaire mother of two and wife of the American rap ...
