A female victim turned the tables on a would-be phone thief when she fought back and threw him down a stairwell into the Paris metro this week, according to reports. The harrowing incident unfolded just before 7 p.m. on Monday evening in the Porte de la Villette neighborhood of the French capital. A 31-year-old woman was walking by an entrance to the subway when a suspect tried to snatch her cell... 

A 22-year-old African-American man was arrested earlier this week in Chicago and charged with two counts of felony robbery after he allegedly stole a 14-year-old boy’s bike and called him a racist. CWB Chicago reports that Isaac Lacy on Tuesday allegedly robbed a boy of his bike outside a Logan Square cycle shop and told him, “You’re a racist and you ain’t gonna do sh*t.” “Then, the man... 

‘Too easy’: Pythias Brown said thefts from aircraft baggage were ‘commonplace’, allowed to prevail by a ‘culture’ of indifference It was a scandal that rocked the nation – a New York Transport Security Agency security officer found guilty of stealing close to $1million worth of belongings from passenger luggage. But according to the convicted officer, the... 

In a case with parallels to the Bernie Madoff scandal, a prominent Florida hedge fund manager has vanished – and so has up to $350 million of his clients’ money. Sarasota police are looking into claims that Arthur Nadel, 76, defrauded investors before leaving a distraught note for his family and disappearing. Cops began investigating on Friday after investors complained that Nadel, president...