A Tennessee man is facing over three dozen theft charges after being accused of using the identities of others to steal over $260,000 from his job.
37-year-old Lashawn Green worked as a manager at the People Ready temp agency in Covington Pike from December 2020 until February 2022.
Employees of People Ready are issued a debit card for their pay to be direct deposited, and they use a digital app as a timecard to track their hours.
On the evening of August 7, a woman was reportedly driving around Redding in a silver Acura.
Just after 7:00 pm, the authorities began receiving calls from bystanders who said they saw a silver Acura being driven unsafely. The callers said that the driver was going the wrong way on the road into oncoming traffic.
A Houston man is facing charges after he allegedly stole an ambulance from a hospital and smashed into several cars at two fast food restaurants.
On the evening of July 31, it was reported that a Houston Fire Department ambulance that was parked outside of the West Houston Medical Center hospital was stolen.
According to reports, the alleged thief drove down the road to a fast food restaurant and slammed into three cars parked in the parking lot.
Rap artist Mystikal has been accused of physically and sexually assaulting a woman during a fight about $100 that he claimed she stole from him.
51-year-old hip hop star Mystikal, whose birth name is Michael Tyler, is a Grammy nominee from New Orleans. He has been involved in several prior criminal cases, such as domestic abuse battery, first-degree rape, and second-degree kidnapping. He is also a lifetime registered sex offender.
On July 30, Tyler was at his home in Ascension Parish with a female.
Four people from Missouri suspected of theft and burglary were tracked down after one of the men reportedly involved accidentally butt-dialed 911.
Early in the morning on July 27, Cole County 911 received a call from someone who disconnected the line before they provided any information.
The authorities found the location where the call came from, and Deputies from the Cole County Sheriff’s Office went to the address to see if someone needed help.
A Florida Man is facing several charges after being accused of stealing and selling a minimum of 125 cemetery vases so he could spend the money on fentanyl.
31-year-old Douglas Deck Jr. lives in St. Petersburg, Florida.
On July 21, a scrap metal yard in St. Petersburg notified the authorities about someone they identified as Deck Jr. that had visited their establishment on July 12, 13, 14, and 19 with bronze vases for sale. The vases are used for holding flowers and offerings at gravesites, but the man was reportedly selling them as scrap metal.
A man accused of stealing nearly 5,000 pounds of copper wire from Interstate lights was apprehended when he went into a recycling center while the police were on the premises investigating the same crime.
31-year-old Clarence Wayne Giles lives in the Charleston area of West Virginia.
According to the authorities, in March, someone began to steal copper wire from several light poles on Interstates 64 and 77. Due to the missing wires, portions of the roads were dark, causing a potential hazard to the drivers.
A Providence man was arrested after allegedly robbing a local strip club at gunpoint and taking $22,000 in $1 bills.
In the middle of the afternoon on July 18, a manager of The Cadillac Lounge adult entertainment club was counting money in his office before the establishment opened for the day.
According to reports, a man wearing a mask entered the club and walked into the manager’s office. The man reportedly pulled out a gun and held it up to the manager’s head, ordering him not to look at him.
A Florida art dealer who was accused of selling faux paintings by famous artists and claiming they were authentic has been indicted for the alleged offenses.
68-year-old Daniel Elie Bouaziz is from Paris, France, and he owns two art galleries in Palm Beach, Florida.
In 2021, the FBI opened an investigation into Bouaziz’s business dealings based on the assertion that he was ripping off his clients. They believed he was selling prints of original works by artists such as Jean-Michel Basquiat, Andy Warhol, Banksy, and Roy Lichtenstein and telling the customers that they were real. The authorities reported that Bouaziz provided the buyers fake provenances and authentications for the art pieces.
A fake pill bottle with a GPS tracker helped the police find and arrest a Michigan man who allegedly robbed thousands of dollars worth of prescription drugs from several CVS pharmacies over two months.
Beginning on May 24, CVS pharmacies in four separate locations in midwestern Michigan were robbed of several prescription medications by an unknown suspect.
One of the stores in Van Buren Township was visited by the suspect twice. The first time was on May 24, and then again on June 8. The alleged robber went to the pharmacy in Saline on June 2, the Ann Arbor location on June 14, and the store in Milan on July 7.
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