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It would be easier to empathize with these people if they were not a bunch of entitled jerks who view looting as a natural part of life. Instead, what we are learning is that among the 40 million people who get SNAP benefits through EBT cards, a whole lot of them are worthless, entitled people who need to get off their asses and go to work. TikTok is filled with videos of SNAP "beneficiaries," most of whom are obese, explaining how they intend to loot grocery stores to stock up on junk food for the month of November because the...

Two women are facing a slew of charges after they allegedly brawled with Market Basket employees who accused them of shoplifting from a West Bridgewater grocery store Sunday. Police said Olivia Byrd, 37, of Quincy, and her sister Rahjane Byrd, 28, of Hyde Park, became argumentative when confronted around 5 p.m. on Oct. 26, screaming obscenities and assaulting two store employees.

(WARNING: Graphic language in some videos in this story) (WND News Center)—Four weeks into the federal government shutdown, a woman claiming she’s out of food stamps is bragging online about stealing from a grocery store while urging others to steal at will and “infiltrate” churches to get cash. The woman who goes by “consiracycutiee” and has a username of @jaalagotanattitude posted her illegal shoplifting exploits on social media, using extremely graphic language. “Everything out here is yours,” she said. “Whether or not you take it, they call that sh** free will. I call that sh** eminent domain. You know what...

The U.S. Secret Service, alongside local law enforcement and state agency partners, conducted an Electronic Benefit Transfer fraud and payment card skimming outreach operation in Baltimore and the surrounding area on Oct. 22-23. Personnel visited 493 businesses and removed 22 illegal skimming devices, preventing an estimated potential loss of nearly $22.9 million. More than 3,000 point-of-sale terminals, gas pumps and ATMs were inspected. Teams also distributed educational materials about Electronic Benefit Transfer fraud and skimming to businesses to help them better identify the warning signs of illegal skimming devices in their point-of-sale terminals, gas pumps and ATMs. This outreach operation...

Two men who allegedly stole $100 million worth of France’s crown jewels during a daring daytime heist at the Louvre Museum were arrested on Saturday night — as one suspect was captured trying to flee the country. One of the suspects, who has not been identified, was busted as he was boarding a flight bound for Algeria at Paris-Charles de Gaulle Airport, Paris newspaper Le Parisien reported. The men, from Seine-Saint-Denis, a suburb north of Paris, were detained by police as part of the investigation of “organized gang robbery” and “conspiracy to commit a crime.” Police were tipped off on...

At a time when Indian-origin truck drivers are dominating headlines in the US for horrific accidents, a major cargo theft ring has been busted in California, with 12 men charged, including 11 'Singhs'. Referred to as 'Singh Organization' by the cops, the group acquired or fraudulently used real trucking companies to bid on shipping contracts. When they won these bids, they used to take possession of the cargo that was to be shipped, but instead of delivering it to the right destination, they diverted it and stole it. They sold the cargo thorugh black market channels and earned millions of...

Five people police say are part of the "South American Theft Group" – a Colombia theft group that police say are targeting Florida homes and businesses – were arrested Oct. 20 after a robbery was caught on police drone camera. Police say the group targeted Asian business owners. Now, the five suspects are on ICE detainers at the Osceola County Jail. What we know: Five people – Wendy Farias-Suarez, Johan Beltran-Prieto, Laura Pedraza-Sarmiento, Julio Lozano-Trujillo and Elkin Cubillos-Jimenez with the "South American Theft Group" – were charged by the Osceola County Sheriff's Office with burglary, grand theft and criminal mischief....

LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- Could copper theft slow Los Angeles's move towards a zero-emissions future? Thieves are targeting electric vehicle charging stations for copper wire -- cutting cords and even breaking into chargers using hacksaws. It's a costly fix to repair the vandalized stations. VIDEOS AT LINK.................... Now, there are new efforts underway to prevent copper wire theft. "All our focus is, 'How do we accelerate transportation electrification?' More EVs, cars and trucks on the road, more charges in the ground by the time the world arrives for the Olympic and Paralympic Games in 2028. How do we show the...

The Louvre’s first female museum director hired the first female security chief and less than a year later Napoleon’s crown jewels were stolen in broad daylight while the museum was open. NEW – Louvre security chief Dominique Buffin, the museum’s first female security head, hired last September by the museum’s first female director, accused of being a “diversity hire” — Telegraph From corporate meltdowns like Bud Light, target, Disney et al to mid-air collisions that cost lives, DEI is operationally catastrophic and systemically destructive.

Homeowners in Richmond, British Columbia, Canada are being told to attend a city meeting next week because apparently their property titles might not mean what they thought they did. They may no longer own their own property after a court ruling. The meeting, set for October 28, follows a British Columbia Supreme Court ruling that gave the Cowichan Tribes Aboriginal title to about 7.5 square kilometres of land on Lulu Island, an area that includes private homes, farms, golf courses, and even port facilities. The August 7 decision said the Nation had exclusive occupation of the land before 1846, meaning...

Wall Street Apes @WallStreetApes White House confirms Democrats have been lying, Illegals are on Medicaid Dr. Oz, Administrator of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, CONFIRMS “We have proven that there's been over a billion dollars — paid by U.S. taxpayers for illegal immigrants in about half a dozen states.” “We're just getting started. So it's going to be significantly more money than that.”

With the arrests and federal indictments of two California men announced on Thursday, we're now getting an idea of how California's billions of dollars to "end homelessness" vanished without a trace. Instead of helping to solve the problem of rampant tent encampments filled with addicts on the beaches and streets in California, things got worse. Where did all that money go? An audit in 2024 revealed that no one knew how the homeless money was spent. I wrote about this in "No Wonder Gavin Newsom Didn't Want an Audit to Track $24 Billion in Homeless Spending." The audit revealed that...

The economy and the environment hang in the maritime balance.A big, beautiful brouhaha went down between the Trump administration and a globalist initiative by the International Maritime Organization (IMO) to impose a tax on the world’s shipping industry. Amid growing doubt about the scientific legitimacy of alarmist claims of human-caused climate change, the same international bodies that have led the charge against carbon dioxide for decades now seek to launch a complex new scheme that will impose huge costs on maritime shipping. Within these machinations were the usual seeds of inflation, control, and a vision for a one-world domination by...

One guy used $2.1 MILLION to pay his American Express Credit Card

BUNNELL, Fla. — A second suspect in an alleged fraud scheme at a Palm Coast Popeyes has been arrested following a seven-month investigation, according to the Flagler County Sheriff’s Office. Shaunta Johnson, 42, was taken into custody Wednesday by Flagler detectives on charges related to an organized scheme to defraud customers, a sheriff’s office news release states. Johnson is accused of charging customers’ credit cards while working in the restaurant’s drive-thru, the news release states. She allegedly orchestrated the scheme to make commissary payments to her boyfriend, an inmate at Apalachee Correctional Institution. Johnson remain in jail Friday morning on...

Mayor Brandon Johnson announced a $16.6 billion budget plan for 2026 on Thursday, relying on a number of new or increased taxes on corporations to close a $1.2 billion shortfall while protecting the city from funding cuts by the Trump administration. "We are asking large corporations and big tech companies that have made trillions of dollars to pitch in a little bit more," Johnson said. f Johnson's budget plan is approved, social media companies could find themselves on the hook for a new tax next year. Chicago would be the first city to impose such a tax, and it's just...

There’s more than one reason for the high prices hurting average Americans. But one of them is seldom discussed: the massive retail theft now plaguing our country. How serious is it?The total annual 2022 losses (e.g., including security and insurance) associated with criminality amounted to approximately $112.1 billion. Theft alone was 65 percent of this “shrinkage,” totaling a $72.9 billion loss. Of course, good citizens are supporting these criminals, too.In fact, theft cost the average family more than $400 in 2022.This isn’t distributed equally, though. Families in high-crime areas — i.e., people generally poorer to begin with — bear a...

Later this week the United Nations will hold a vote on a multibillion-dollar climate change tax targeted squarely at American industry. Without quick and decisive action by the White House, this U.N. tax on fossil fuels will become international law. This resolution before the International Maritime Organization will impose a carbon tax on cargo and cruise ships that carry $20 trillion of merchandise over international waters. Roughly 80% of the bulkage of world trade is transported by ship. The resolution is intended to advance the very “net zero” carbon emissions standard that has knee-capped European economies for years and that...

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) -- A man and two women from the Houston area have been arrested after the Texas Department of Public Safety says they stole $300,000 from Target stores in multiple states. The thefts took place from February 2024 to September 2025, according to court documents. Bernard Lane, the man prosecutors refer to as the ringleader of the group, has been charged 70 times in Harris County for things like evading arrest, assault, and DWI. By 2024, he'd been convicted three dozen times. And yet that same year, when he was arrested for allegedly choking and threatening to kill...

Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA) signed a bill into law on Friday, launching a process for California to administer reparations for descendants of slaves. The governor gave the final green light to Senate Bill 518, which establishes a new state agency responsible for verifying eligibility, processing claims, and recommending forms of reparations for descendants of slaves. “This law reflects a critical acknowledgment of the historic injustices that have shaped the Black experience in California and across this country,” California Legislative Black Caucus chair Weber Pierson said in a statement celebrating the new law. “For generations, Black Americans have faced exclusion, exploitation,...