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US government refuses to pay damages for Ferrari F50 destroyed during an FBI joy ride. The US Department of Justice is deploying all of its legal muscle to avoid paying the price after an FBI agent destroyed an exotic car during a joy ride. After nearly two years of trying to recover the money owed by the government, Motors Insurance Company filed a lawsuit against the government seeking the full $750,000 value of the wrecked 1995 Ferrari F50. The vehicle originally had been stolen in 2003 from a Ferrari dealer in Pennsylvania. Motors paid the $630,000 insurance claim, giving the...

GREENSBORO, N.C. — The man accused of pointing a rifle into the golf course where former President Donald Trump was playing last weekend, was known in his hometown as something of a bad actor. “Weird” is how one of Ryan Routh’s former neighbors in Greensboro described him. She told reporters he once had a horse in his house and that he also kept guns. A man, who like the first neighbor asked not to be identified for fear of being associated with Routh, says he didn’t know the 58 year old well but got a similar vibe. “I mean, [he]...

Four Florida teens, aged between 14 and 16, died during a police chase The incident occurred after their stolen SUV was spotted by officers The crash claimed the lives of two at the scene, and two more at the hospital SNIP

During operational activity, IDF soldiers found evidence connecting Hamas’ terrorist activities to the Indonesian Hospital in the northern Gaza Strip. In the inner compound of the hospital, a white Toyota truck of the same type used by Hamas terrorists during the October 7th massacre was located, along with additional weapons. Furthermore, in the same inner compound and demarcated area, a Toyota Corolla vehicle with an Israeli license plate was found that belonged to the family of the late Samer Talalka. RPG remnants and bloodstains were found in the vehicle, which were identified as belonging to another hostage. The finding of...

Be careful where you park your car, it might not be there when you come back. Chicago — like much of the nation — has seen a huge rise in car thefts since 2020, with no let-up in sight. Adding to the problem, the Chicago Police Department has linked several recent robbery sprees to stolen vehicles. That comes as carmakers Kia and Hyundai face scrutiny for failing to provide adequate security systems for their cars. Last Friday, Northwest Side resident Matt Nalett spotted a stolen Hyundai Tuscon in an alley just off of the intersection of North and Cicero avenues....

AURORA, CO – Losing a child is difficult, regardless of age. Often grieving families turn not only to legal recourse, but also civil lawsuits against those responsible. However, in a case out of Colorado, the grieving family who lost their teenager who fell out of a stolen vehicle which ran him over is seeking civil relief from the victim of the car theft. The incident when the teenager was killed occurred on October 18th in Aurora, Colorado at Village Green Park. The Aurora Police Department reports that 14-year-old Kashontez Grigler was riding as a passenger in a van which was...

The Detroit Police Department caught one of its own officers in a stolen Dodge Challenger this past Sunday. The off-duty officer was riding passenger in the stolen car when the police attempted a traffic stop, according to Deadline Detroit. The stolen car tried to escape from police, and a brief pursuit ensued. The pursuit ended when the stolen car collided with another car. After the collision, the officer escaped on foot but was arrested later, after police identified him using body camera footage. Again, the officer, who also happens to be a two-year veteran of the force, was one of...

The Royal Bank of Canada accidentally seized a Subaru WRX STI from a Vancouver man, despite the fact he’d never interacted with the bank before. Tage Kendall had his 2006 Subaru Impreza repossessed even though the car was fully paid off and properly titled in his name, reports the CBC. He did not purchase the car with a loan from RBC, and hasn’t dealt with the bank before. That’s why he thought it odd that, in June of 2018, he received a Facebook message from a collection company saying his car was about to be repossessed. He replied that they...

FULL TITLE: Man spots his stolen car being driven through New Jersey then cuts the driver off before viciously beating him in the street A man who spotted his stolen car on his way to filing a report at the police station chased down the driver and beat him in the street. The owner was driving a minivan in Bayonne, New Jersey, on Sunday when he spotted his stolen Honda Civic on the road and started following it, police said. The owner eventually cut in front of Ephraim Diaz, who was behind the wheel of his car, and beat him...

Texas Man Finds Stolen Car 42 Years LaterBy ALON HARISH | Good Morning America – 13 hrs ago Bob Russell could not be blamed for losing hope that he would reunite with his 1967 Austin-Healey. Stolen outside his Philadelphia apartment 42 years ago, the British roadster seemed a lost cause. But thanks to the Internet and some creative police work, Russell has his pride and joy back. When Russell, then a graduate student at Temple University, returned home the morning after a date with his future wife, his car was nowhere to be found. For decades since, he searched for...

Authorities in Wisconsin are bound and determined to crack down on gray market vehicles. According to Stevens Point Journal, In 2010, the state government orchestrated a sting to catch Justin Beno selling two Nissan Skyline models, one of which played a role in the Fast and Furious franchise. A Wisconsin Department of Transportation investigator spotted both a 1995 and a 1996 Skyline up for sale and pretended to be a buyer. The investigator asked if it were possible to get the cars titled, and Beno said he believed the vehicles could be titled in Florida, then retitled in Wisconsin. This...

QUINCY (MA)-- Two brothers from Quincy today pleaded not guilty to charges they stole US Representative William R. Keating's aging Lexus from his Quincy home early this morning. Christoper J. Babij, 25, and his 20-year-old brother, Kenneth Babij, were arrested by Quincy police while still inside Keating’s Lexus about 10 minutes after he reported it stolen around 2:45 a.m. today. The brothers appeared in Quincy District Court where Kenneth Babij was sent to Bridgewater State Hospital for a substance abuse evaluation after a court clinician reported that he is using three grams of heroin daily using hypodermic needles. He also...

A quick trip to grab a bite to eat by Police Chief Kevin Belk and Deputy Police Chief James Farris turned into a baby-saving adventure Thursday afternoon. While headed to lunch, Belk and Farris chased down a Chevy Suburban stolen moments before with a baby boy inside, police said. The mother of 10-month-old Kamaron Hill is hailing both as her ``heroes'' after they saw her ``hysterical'' on Fulton Street near Dwight Avenue, she said. Kandeis Hill, 35, of Grand Rapids, ran into the street after her sport utility vehicle was taken from the Fulton Street Superwash, at 912 E. Fulton...

Yesterday, Christmas day, our son's car was stolen around 5:30 p.m. as it was parked in front of our house. Christmas morning his girl friend's car was got stolen while parked in front of her house in Palm Springs, and also yesterday a friend's new Volvo in DHS had its tail lights bashed out with some rocks and his neighbor's van window was bashed out with the same rock. I hope your Christmas day was a little better than mine and that of all those affected by the Christmas day vandalism spree. But it is not all happening on Christmas....

GADSDEN, Ala. — A 5-year-old boy who was asleep in the back of a car when it was stolen from the parking lot of an Albertville convenience store was found dead Tuesday morning in a neighboring county, authorities said. A dispatcher with the Etowah County Sheriff's Department said the body of Geontae Glass was discovered in a rural area. Officials planned to release details at a mid-morning news conference, said the dispatcher, who did not give her name. An FBI spokesman did not immediately return phone calls, and further details weren't available. The child was abducted shortly after 6 a.m....

Car Stolen 37 Years Ago To Be Reunited With Owner Man Reunited With Corvette Stolen 37 Years Ago (CBS) CARSON, Calif. A man Tuesday is expected to be reunited with his 1968 Corvette that was stolen from him 37 years ago in New York City. Alan Poster's 1968 Corvette was stolen from him in New York after only a year of owning it. Poster, who lived in New York City at the time of the theft, now resides in Petaluma in Northern California. The now-classic sports car recently turned up at the Port of Long Beach. An apparently unsuspecting buyer...

Police in Maine say they caught a burglar who had just broken into a home, because the thief couldn't get his car out of the burgled home's driveway. Tarr told them he pulled into the driveway to turn around, and got stuck on the ice. The homeowner agreed to try to help him get the car moving, but when she saw her laptop in the car's backseat, she took it, and went in the house. That left Tarr outside, frantically trying to move the car. He was still there when police arrived. They discovered that Tarr had three active warrants,...

It was only a small taste of freedom. David Mulligan, 21, served 25 days for drunken driving, and was released at 7 a.m. Tuesday. Authorities allege he stole a van three minutes later. A man who lives a block from the Lemon Creek Correctional Center had left his 1997 Dodge van running to warm up. When he came out of the house, it was gone. Two hours later, the owner called police on a cell phone, saying he was following the stolen van in traffic. Police responded, and said they found Mulligan alone in the van. He now faces up...

Alleged felons accused of driving a stolen car to court. Two Bowling Green men who drove to their trial at the Butler County Courthouse in Morgantown not only were convicted, but were arrested again when the trial was over. Authorities say Terry Hunt, 39, and Justin Hawkins, 24, were accused of driving to the courthouse Tuesday in a stolen car. Hunt and Hawkins had driven a 2005 BMW to the courthouse to attend their jury trial on arson and fraudulent insurance acts. After the discovery of the stolen vehicle, police searched the residence of the two in Bowling Green and...

Flamethrower Mad Maxine Waters is on Al Rantel now discussing the shooting of the young car thief in L.A. who was in a stolen car at 4 am and tried to ram the police. Listen online from KABC WEBSITE --- www.kabc.com