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UPDATE 10:52 AM – The suspect accused of stealing Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem’s Gucci bag containing approximately $3,000 in cash has been identified as a Chilean undocumented migrant. According to a report by the New York Post, Mario Bustamante-Leiva, 49, was detained on Saturday after reportedly stealing the shoulder bag when Noem, 53, was celebrating Easter with her family at The Capital Burger in Washington, DC. Bustamante-Leiva, who is illegally in the United States, is considered to be a member of a vast east coast robbery network, and law enforcement is still looking for another undocumented immigrant who served...

You've probably seen the video. In Chile, a man boards a bus and twice tries to rip a purse away from a woman. When he fails, he tries to flee, only to get his arm stuck in the door. Whereupon the driver subdues him with a few swings from his handy bat. When the bus finally stops, the police are there to greet the miscreant and lead him away. When Jimmy Kimmel played the clip on his show, the audience reacted with cheers. But when Morning Joe aired it today, Mika declared herself "disturbed." When Mika asked why the clip...

GILBERT, Ariz. -- A 21-year-old woman three months pregnant attacked a suspected purse snatcher with a pocketknife as he fought with her on a dark Gilbert sidewalk, police said. Investigators said the man, Filemon Del Hoyo, 22, was transported to Scottsdale Osborne Hospital with severe lacerations. Officers said the ordeal began as the woman was walking home from an Applebee's restaurant near Gilbert Road and Baseline Road around 12:40 a.m. Thursday. She told police she noticed a vehicle in a parking lot that looked suspicious by the way it was parked. "There was a guy kind of hidden in the...

Japan 'cross-dresser' thief unmasked Japanese police say they have arrested an unemployed man who disguised himself as a schoolgirl to rob women in the city of Nagoya. Yoshikuni Moriwaki, 24, admitted carrying out a series of robberies clad in a navy blue miniskirt, white blouse and shoulder-length brown wig, police said. In the most recent incident, he allegedly rode behind a woman on a bicycle and snatched her bag from the front basket as he overtook her. He was later spotted near a local train station in his trademark school uniform. According to the Mainichi Shimbun newspaper, he was hampered...