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Three armed teens robbing a check-cashing business in Commerce City got targeted by another criminal during the stickup — who stole their getaway vehicle.

Stolen bikes worth more than $80,000 recovered, Boulder police say By: Óscar Contreras BOULDER, Colo. – Three bikes worth more than $80,000 that were stolen from a Boulder business last week have been recovered and a suspect is now in custody, police said Wednesday. The suspect was arrested after police were called to a local bike shop the day after the burglary when the business owner noticed the man walking into the shop with one of the bikes valued at $12,000 and a pair of bolt cutters sticking out of his backpack. Further investigation into the individual led police to...

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LINCOLN, Neb. - A not-so-swift-minded suspect gave authorities a pseudonym Tuesday, forgetting he was wearing a lanyard with his real name on it, police said. Officers responded to a domestic assault call at 10:30 p.m. knowing they would be contacting Markel Towner, 26, who has two warrants for his arrest, police said. When investigators arrived, they found Towner seated in a vehicle out front of the house they were called to. When an officer asked his name he replied, “Deangelo Towns” although a lanyard around his neck read “Markel Towner.” After a brief struggle, Towner was taken into custody.

What began with a quick grab-and-go theft Saturday at the San Antonio Aquarium -- the suspect leaving a trail of water drops as he hurried away with his dripping prize of a small but very much alive shark -- ended Monday with the safe return of "Miss Helen" to her tank at the aquarium. The 16-inch female horn shark was taken during a heist that aquarium officials said was no spur-of-the-moment, let's-steal-a-shark thing. "The suspects staked out the pool for more than an hour" to wait for the right moment, the aquarium said in a statement. The search for the...

An effort to avoid paying a $7.41 bill at a Waffle House in tiny Pearl River has led to the arrest of two out-of-state men and the discovery of a sophisticated interstate identity theft scheme that is now being investigated by the U.S. Secret Service. The two suspects are accused of installing credit card skimming devices at gas pumps, which allowed them to steal credit card information from unwitting victims. The information was being used to create counterfeit credit cards that were used to make fraudulent purchases or sold to other individuals, according to the Pearl River Police Department. Investigators...

of them planning bloodbath outside Brooklyn court Police stopped a potential bloodbath outside Brooklyn Criminal Court — thanks to Facebook, officials said Thursday. Cops grabbed three gang members planning violence outside the courthouse on Joralemon St. in Brooklyn Heights on Wednesday after finding a Facebook Live video that showed they had a gun and planned to shoot members of a rival crew, police sources said. Cops monitoring social media sites of gang members found the video around 10 a.m. Wednesday. It showed Rashid Celestine, 19, Davon Arthur, 20, and Envoy Bullock, 24, in a car and armed with a...

<p>An Ohio woman was arrested after she called 911 to complain about a Chinese food order that simply wasn’t up to par.</p>

We’ve all seen Gone in 60 Seconds. The remake film from 2000 features an all-star cast and an elusive Mustang that always gets Nicolas Cage’s character in trouble. It’s a unicorn car – no matter how hard he tries to steal it, something always goes wrong. Joshua Nadelhoffer, 29, is not a professional car thief. If he was, he wouldn’t have been foolish enough to (allegedly) try to steal a 2013 Camaro SS from a Hertz Rent-A-Car parking lot at the Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport. Not only that, but he surely would have had the foresight to know that leaving...

Police are looking for a man who attempted to rob a convenience store early Wednesday with an electric drill. A man wearing black jeans, a black sweater and a black mask entered the Kwik Shop near First Street and Cornhusker Highway at 2:49 a.m., Lincoln Police Officer Katie Flood said. He demanded money and held an object concealed under a towel to look like a gun, Flood said. The clerk, however, noticed a drill bit and saw a cord hanging from below the towel and refused to give the man money. After the clerk told the man she thought it...

PLEASANTON--Three men accused of torturing a pig at the Alameda County Fair will appear together in court for the first time Aug. 31. Cody Paradero, 22, of Livermore, the third suspect to be arraigned in the case, appeared Thursday in Judge Hugh Walker's courtroom to face charges of public intoxication and animal cruelty. "Oh, good. We've got all three of you," Walker said during Paradero's brief appearance. "You're lucky you got arrested first. Those ranchers and cowboys would have strung you up behind the barn." Paradero, along with codefendants James Anthony Horn, 22, and Kyle Flapan, 24, -- dubbed "the...

A weight lifting instructor was kidnapped in the North Caucasus republic of Dagestan and killed one of his kidnappers. The two criminals went into the gym of the instructor, handcuffed him to a radiator in the basement and demanded a ransom of $66,000 (2 million rubles). When the criminals decided to leave the next morning and left a gun on a nearby table. The weight lifting instructor broke free from the handcuffs and shot one of the kidnappers. The other one fled and is now on the wanted list. Luckily, the instructor got out of this situation alive. He is...

Nathaniel James Clay and a couple of friends allegedly thought it would be easy to steal some stuff from a house and make some quick cash. But what he got was a couple of bullets from one of his friends instead as they tried to burglarize a home in Melbourne, Florida. The homeowner forcefully tried to protect his property as he caught the men stealing from him. He started pounding Nathaniel James Clay (pictured below) with a baseball bat. One of his armed accomplices came to his rescue and tried to shoot the burglary victim. The accomplice fired but hit...

Carl Wooley, a Pittsburgh area man, shot and killed his wife’s alleged boyfriend yesterday with his bow and arrow. Police determined that Tony Bittinger came at him carrying a weapon as he climbed a staircase toward him. Bitttinger reportedly came after Wooley with a 32 inch long club. Wooley had continually told the man to leave his house when he got there. The man who was killed had called the home earlier and threatened his intended victim. Alcohol was involved on Bittner’s part. Police called the shooting self defense. IN MADISON, WISCONSIN: Lamar Crump. Jr. allegedly broke into a man’s...

Two people are in custody after a strange string of events led to their arrest and subsequent discovery of stolen copper wire, a pickup submerged in mud and a damaged tractor hooked to a loaded grain cart. “This is a case where the evidence is pretty clear,” said Lt. Paul Vrbka with the York County Sheriff’s Department. “There’s no doubt these two are copper wire thieves, they were involved in that type of theft and then a rain storm ruined their plans.” The sheriff’s department alleges that Marlo Turner, 42, and Michael Doxon, 34, both of Lincoln, stole copper span...

After wrecking a car they had allegedly stolen at gunpoint near Slidell, a pair of New Orleans teenagers tried to run across the twin spans Sunday night in an unsuccessful attempt to escape pursuing St. Tammany Parish deputies.The chase began about 10 p.m., after two 16-year-olds approached a resident at Harborside Apartments on Oak Harbor Boulevard and demanded the keys to a Ford Taurus at gunpoint, Sheriff's Office spokesman Capt. George Bonnett said. The resident complied, and the teens got into the car and drove off, with the one carrying the semi-automatic pistol driving, Bonnett said. The Sheriff's Office did...

Florida kid's joy ride ends in grand theft auto bust after license left in carPolice on Florida's West Coast didn't have a tough time finding a suspected teen car thief. All they had to do was look at his driver's license. Detectives say 17-year old Miles Jared Overway stopped by the Car Care Center in Port Charlotte on Sept. 15th and wanted to test drive a 1999 Ford Crown Victoria. Overway brought back the car but not the keys, and the car was reported stolen later that night. The car lot owner says he called police the next day after...

EDEN, N.Y. (AP) -- Note to would-be bank robbers: when robbing a bank, be sure to put on your mask. Police say a robbery suspect had a dust mask around his neck but didn't pull it over his face when he walked into an HSBC branch Wednesday afternoon in the town of Eden, 15 miles south of Buffalo. snip While handing the note to the teller, the man answers his cell phone, then grabs the note and runs out of the bank. Police speculate that the call came from the suspect's get-away driver, alerting him that he forgot to put...

A Boaz woman trying to retaliate against the person who repossessed her car got burned in the process. Literally. Authorities say Haleigh Elizabeth Boland, 26, accidentally set herself on fire while she was torching the car of the person who had taken hers. To make matters worse, the entire incident was caught on tape. "It was just a big act of foolishness all the way around," said Etowah County Sheriff's spokeswoman Natalie Barton. The incident happened May 8 when authorities said Haleigh Boland and her father, Benny Gene Boland, 50, went to a home on Carlisle Cut-Off Road in the...

Three muggers in Australia got the fright of their lives when their attack was interrupted by five black-clad ninja warriors. The thieves were assaulting a German medical exchange student in Sydney, but the alleyway where they struck was next to a school for ninja warriors One of the pupils raised the alarm after noticing the attack. Police say they have arrested two men and charged them with robbery, and are still looking for a third suspect. "We just ran outside and started running at them, yelling and everything," said ninja master Kaylan Soto who instructed his students to take action.