40,000 Pounds of Pabst Blue Ribbon Stolen Someone Stole 40,000 Pounds of Pabst Blue Ribbon, and the Company Is Not Amused Instead of quietly working with police, Pabst went straight to Instagram. Its initial post read simply: “STOLEN – 40,000lbs of beer.” But it’s the tone that really sells it. The company added that it…
$70,000 in Landscaping Trailer Gone Overnight What the Ottawa Trailer Theft Teaches Every Contractor Early Friday morning, an Ottawa landscaping business owner got the kind of call no tradesperson wants to receive. Joshua Nemchin, who runs Yard Kings, discovered that one of his trailers — packed with roughly $70,000 worth of tools — had vanished…
Thieves Steal Keys, Titles, and $120,000 in Cars When Thieves Target More Than Just Cars A car dealership in Mapunapuna, Hawaii got a rude awakening this week when staff arrived to find their lot had been ransacked overnight. But this wasn’t your typical smash-and-grab. At City Auto Sales, burglars cut through the gate lock, broke…
Dekalb County Theft $215K in Equipment Vanishes from Illinois Solar Farm And the Suspect Is Caught Fast Solar farms are popping up across rural America, and it turns out their construction sites are becoming an increasingly popular target for thieves. The latest example: a construction site in Kingston Township, DeKalb County, Illinois, where more than…
Truck Stolen from East Bay Nonprofit East Bay Food Nonprofit’s Only Delivery Truck Stolen Days Before Major Distribution The Monument Crisis Center’s 2004 Ford F-350 was stolen Sunday from the nonprofit’s front entrance in Concord, California. The theft came just one day after the organization’s annual backpack giveaway and days before a scheduled food distribution…
Turo Theft in Sky Harbor Could a GPS tracker help if your car is stolen? A car GPS tracker cannot prevent vehicle theft, but real-time GPS tracking may help owners and law enforcement locate a stolen vehicle faster. A GPS vehicle tracker provides live location updates, allowing you to monitor your car’s whereabouts if it…
The 60 Second Car Theft: Why Modern Vehicles Are Easier to Steal Than Ever and How to Protect Yours Imagine this. Someone walks up to your car, spends less than a minute reprogramming a key fob, and drives away like they own it. It sounds unreal, but it is happening right now. The Rise of…
When Lobsters Go Missing: What the Costco Heist Teaches Us About Cargo Security A bizarre but increasingly common crime made headlines recently: a truckload of lobster worth roughly $400,000 mysteriously vanished while en route to Costco stores in the Midwest. The high-value shipment was picked up from a facility in Taunton, Massachusetts, but never reached…
When a Business Is Stolen: A Christmas Theft and the Importance of GPS Trackers On Christmas Day in Phoenix, a local small‐business owner returned home to find something no one wants to see. A work trailer full of his business equipment had been stolen. Security camera footage captured the theft in about a minute, as…
Caught on Camera — But the Trailer Still Vanished A broad-daylight theft in a busy neighborhood shows how fast your property can disappear. Are you protected? In broad daylight, two suspects backed a U-Haul into a residential neighborhood and stole a camper trailer. A quick-thinking neighbor captured it on their phone—clear video, full faces, full…