By Danny Fenster ticklethewire.com David E. Gregory, 57, walked into the Chicago Community Bank at 52 East Lake Street in Chicago, Ill. at around 9:30am on Sept. 30. He handed the teller a note which said he had a gun and a bomb, and demanded money from the teller’s drawer. Gregory walked out of the…
By Allan Lengel For AOL News WASHINGTON — A resident of Moscow, “BadB” lived the glamorous life, hopping jets to Europe, freely spending money — even as U.S. authorities marked him as one of the world’s “most prolific sellers” of stolen credit card data. French authorities arrested Vladislav Anatolievich Horohorin, 27, at the airport in…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com A former aerospace engineer for Boeing was sentenced Monday in California to 15 years and 8 months in prison for stealing restricted technologies and trade secrets on behalf of China that included information related to the Space Shuttle program and the Delta IV rocket, the U.S. Attorney’s Office said. U.S. District…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com WASHINGTON — The number of crimes involving violence, property and arson dropped in the first half of 2009 compared to the same time last year, according to the FBI’s Preliminary Semiannual Uniform Crime Report released Monday. The FBI said it was the third year in a row crime had declined during…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Nothing like a good hotel war wrapped in a scandal. The Wall Street Journal reports that a federal grand jury is probing whether Hilton Worldwide and several former executives swiped thousands of pages of confidential documents from rival Starwood Hotels & Resorts. The paper, attributing the information to “people familiar with…
By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Ok. So this may not be the federal crime of the century, but it may rank as one of the lowlier ones. Postal worker Dean Hudson, 29, of Marysville, Calif. pleaded guilty in May to stealing money from childrens’ birthday cards at a postal facility in northern California, according to court…
