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Los Angeles (AFP) - Los Angeles police and the FBI are investigating a daring heist of nearly $30 million in cash after burglars apparently broke through the roof of a money storage facility and cracked a safe. David Cuellar of the Los Angeles Police Department said the robbery -- one of the largest cash thefts in the city's history -- took place on Easter Sunday in the northern suburb of Sylmar. The Los Angeles Times, citing source familiar with the investigation, said burglars busted through a roof to access the building's vault, somehow evading a sophisticated alarm system. The elaborate an...
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Timber theft, a profitable business, is on the increase in French forests. The gendarmes of Yvelines are tracking down looters, who are responsible for ecological disasters. A forest that existed just a few months ago has been nearly completely eradicated. In Septeuil, located in the Yvelines department, authorities have been probing into the theft of wood for more than a year. The thieves cut the trunks themselves in the surrounding forests. "The type of trees that have been cut down are the beautiful, healthy ones, and what's left are the thin, sickly ones", points out Gabriel Ducrest, comma...
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"There's no place like home", but Judy Garland's iconic ruby red slippers from The Wizard of Oz are off on a world tour instead, ahead of being put up for sale. Stolen nearly 20 years ago from the Judy Garland Museum in the late actor’s hometown, the recovered slippers were given to an auction company, which plans to take them on an international tour - dates for which have yet to be announced. They will go up for auction in December 2024, an official with Dallas-based Heritage Auctions said Monday (18 March). “You cannot overstate the importance of Dorothy’s ruby slippers: They are the most i...
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Washington (AFP) - An elderly US man who stole a pair of ruby slippers worn by Judy Garland in the classic film "The Wizard of Oz" avoided prison time at his sentencing hearing on Monday. Terry Martin, now 76, was sentenced to time served and a year of probation for the 2005 theft as he is in hospice care with six months to live, according to the New York Times. The sequined shoes -- indelibly associated with the character Dorothy clicking them together and saying repeatedly, "there's no place like home" -- were stolen from the Judy Garland Museum in the actress's hometown of Grand Rapids, Min...
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Los Angeles (AFP) - An elderly US man pleaded guilty Friday to the theft nearly 20 years ago of a pair of ruby slippers that Judy Garland wore in the classic film "The Wizard of Oz." The sequined shoes -- indelibly associated with the character Dorothy clicking them together and saying repeatedly, "there's no place like home" -- were stolen in 2005 from the Judy Garland Museum in the actress's hometown of Grand Rapids, Minnesota. The footwear was recovered in an FBI sting in 2018 and Terry Martin, 76, was charged with the theft in May this year. Martin pleaded guilty to one count of theft of m...
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New York (AFP) - US authorities seized three artworks allegedly looted by the Nazis and which are being sought by the heirs of a Jewish art collector who died in the Holocaust, officials said Thursday. They confirmed a report in The New York Times that said New York investigators had taken these works by the 1900s Austrian expressionist Egon Schiele from three US-based museums. In warrants issued Tuesday and seen by AFP, the New York state supreme court said "there is reasonable cause to believe" the works constitute stolen property. The works were seized from the Art Institute of Chicago, the...
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New York (AFP) - Ann McGee, a New Yorker from the borough of Queens, doesn't like the recent sensation she has when entering stores: fear. "It's not normal to be scared" when shopping, McGee told AFP. She's behind a recent petition denouncing the insecurity caused by rising retail theft -- sometimes by thieves operating in groups and threatening anyone near them with violence -- in her neighborhood. US retailers across the country have reported a sharp rise in theft in the last few months, alongside a worrying increase in violence. "You cannot accept the fact that these people can go into s...
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Los Angeles (AFP) - A man who shot Lady Gaga's dogwalker during an attempt to steal the singer's prize French bulldogs was sentenced to 21 years in prison Monday after pleading no contest to attempted murder. James Howard Jackson and two other men attacked Ryan Fischer on a Hollywood street in February 2021, and after a struggle made off with two of the "Poker Face" singer's three pets that were out for a walk. Fischer sustained chest injuries in the attack and said on Instagram a month later he had suffered a collapsed lung. Jackson, 20, entered the no-contest plea after prosecutors agreed t...
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Washington (AFP) - Two people pleaded guilty Thursday to stealing and selling for $40,000 the private diary of President Joe Biden's daughter Ashley Biden, when he was running for office against Donald Trump in 2020. The Justice Department announced the guilty pleas by Aimee Harris and Robert Kurlander in court filings that refer to the victim as the daughter of "Candidate-1" -- widely understood to be Biden. According to the filings, the pair first sought to sell the diary to Trump's campaign -- named as "Candidate-2" -- and when rebuffed they took it to a conservative activist group. That g...
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New York (AFP) - A New York prosecutor announced Wednesday the return of 200 antiquities valued at $10 million to Italy, the latest stolen artworks to be recovered by United States investigators. The works include a ceramic vessel dated from the 7th Century B.C.E. called "Pithos with Ulysses" and a terracotta image of a goddess entitled "A Head of a Maiden" from the 4th Century B.C.E. Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance said 150 of the artifacts related to his office's investigation into Edoardo Almagia. He was an Italian New York-based antiquities dealer who left the United States in 200...
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