CHICAGO — Police seized more than $100,000 worth of stolen items from stores on the Northwest Side in “Operation Cheap Smokes.” In the scam, business operators paid shoplifters discounted rates for stolen coffee, cold medicine, soda, razor blades, teeth whitening strips and cigarettes, according to a statement from the Chicago Police Department. On Wednesday, officers […]
Kevin Michael Sianez, Cop-Turned-Illegal P.I., Cops to Defrauding and Intimidating But What About Getting Women to Screw His Dog?
Former police officer Kevin Michael Sianez pleaded guilty Thursday to 17 felony counts of grand theft by false pretense, 11 felony counts of fraudulently using an access card, two felony counts of identity theft, four felony counts of possession of a firearm by a felon stemming from a 1998 conviction for stalking, six felony counts […]
NC man sentenced in huge crop insurance fraud
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — A North Carolina man is headed to prison for his role in a $21 million crop insurance fraud. Jimmy Thomas Sasser of Wilson pleaded guilty Wednesday to mail fraud, wire fraud, conspiring to make false statements and to threatening a witness. A federal judge sentenced him to four years in prison, a term reduced due to […]
Thief ditches car after discovering baby in backseat
A carjacker had a change of heart after realizing the vehicle he’d stolen had a baby girl in the backseat. According to the New York Post, the girl’s father, Patrick Julbe, got out of the parked but still running car to shop for a cell phone. His girlfriend, Jennifer Rodriguez, and their 8-month-old daughter, Ayanna, stayed […]
‘Massive’ $200M Credit Card Fraud
Eighteen people have been charged in what federal prosecutors in New Jersey called one of the largest credit card fraud schemes ever uncovered by the U.S. Department of Justice, spanning 28 states and eight countries. “The defendants are part of a massive international fraud enterprise involving thousands of false identities, fraudulent identification documents, doctored credit reports and more than $200 […]
