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Shortly before midnight on Monday two criminals accessed a cargo building in John F. Kennedy airport and managed to steal $1.5 million worth of iPad minis. According to The New York Post, the pair used the airport’s own forklift to load two pallets containing the Apple (AAPL) tablets into their vehicle.

A young couple in Washington state may be guilty of committing an expensive crime for pennies on the dollar. Dakoda Garren, 19, has been charged with stealing a rare coin collection worth $100,000 and spending the coins at face value on a movie and pizza with his girlfriend.

A man who tried to steal undershirts valued at $16 from a Wal-Mart in Margate, Fla., shot and killed a loss prevention employee there Friday evening, police said.

Families waiting for San Francisco's cable cars on a recent morning couldn't help but notice Kenny the Clown, who wore a curly rainbow wig as he twisted brightly colored balloons into animal shapes for visitors, blasting Michael Jackson's "Smooth Criminal" from an iPad at his feet....

A man in Pennsylvania who was arrested Saturday for allegedly stealing a bag of marijuana from a police station says he did so because he couldn’t resist the drug’s aroma.

In a bust that gives new meaning to the term “white-collar crime,” authorities in suburban Washington, D.C., broke up a ring of thieves who bought stolen Tide laundry detergent and exported it for resale in Vietnam...Specifically, shoplifting Tide is big business.

Fugitive accused of taking Highland Park woman’s $90,000 wedding ring arrested in East Texas... He was first arrested shortly after the January 2010 mugging, in which a woman in her 50s had her $90,000 wedding ring stolen outside the Whole Foods on Preston Road. Authorities say Fuller’s bail was supposed to be set at $500,000, but after a court mix-up he was released on $50,000 bail. He’s been on the lam for two years. Two weeks ago, however, Fuller was featured on America’s Most Wanted, and tips about his whereabouts poured in to the North Texas Fugitive Task Force.

As gasoline prices rise at the pump, so apparently does the brazenness of some thieves trying to steal it.

Los Angeles police said Friday they were looking for a gang of thieves who stole an estimated $2 million in diamonds in a backpack from a man whose car they intentionally struck.

A 11-by-6-inch pen-and-ink drawing titled 'The Judgment' by the 17th century Dutch master is valued at more than $250,000. Authorities say a man working with accomplices is believed responsible for the theft late Saturday.