Poor Caroline Giuliani. Arrested for stealing makeup from Sephora on the Upper East Side on Wednesday, she was obviously the victim of inept police work because she was handcuffed. Handcuffed! The daughter of "America's Mayor" deserves better than that.
Former media mogul Conrad Black — who was recently released on bond from his six-plus year prison sentence for stealing millions of dollars from his businesses — has penned a column for Toronto's National Post. Hint: prison is unfair!
When a Florida cellphone store clerk was approached by an armed robber, she turned to Jesus for help: "I'm just going to talk to you about Jesus, my God, before you leave." He left, and later robbed a Payless ShoeSource.
Rod Blagojevich probably never imagined that when he hired R. Kelly's former lawyer to close out his corruption trial that it would turn into a circus. Never! But Sam Adam Jr. made a scene, and said he'd go to jail.
Recently freed rapist/filmmaker Roman Polanski, enjoying a paperwork mistake that saved him from extradition to the US, was spotted out for the first time today at the Montreux Jazz Festival in Switzerland to watch his wife perform. [AP]
The oxygen tank-carrying old man accused of robbing a clothing store in Manhattan last week died in a car accident after being chased by police in Maryland this morning. He is identified as 63-year-old Arthur Williams, from Gadsden, Alabama. [AP]
Trigger happy record producer Phil Spector's wife, Rachelle Spector, has a new record coming out! It's called "Out of My Chelle," and if the first music video from the record is any indication, it's going to be hot.
Italian authorities have arrested over 300 people in a sweep of the Calabrian mafia 'Ndrangheta, on suspicion of murder, drug trafficking and money laundering. Some 3,000 police officers took part and arrests were also made in the US. [BBC]
The Swiss government said this morning it will not extradite cinematic auteur and skeezy rapist Roman Polanski to the US to face charges of raping an underage girl in 1977. Said the Swiss justice minister: "He's a free man." [NYT]
After nearly a week the nationwide manhunt for killer Raoul Moat in Britain ended today. Police cornered Moat, shot him with a taser, and he then shot and killed himself. Moat had shot his ex-girlfriend and two others. [Independent; Getty]
Apparently upset about the price of a pair of shades in a Chelsea boutique, a man yesterday brandished a knife and stabbed the store manager. He stabbed more people outside before being subdued by a Salsa DJ and his crew.
The infamous Southern California booby trapping drug dealer, Nicholas John Smit, has been arrested and will face charges in court today for allegedly setting deadly traps to kill police officers after he was arrested for growing weed.
Cornelius Abson, convicted of robbing five people between the ages of 67 and 85, was sentenced to 17 years in prison yesterday. Abson was caught on a security camera choking an 85-year-old woman, then stealing $900 and her cane. [NYDN]
Shocker: An Australian Catholic priest today was sentenced to 20 years in jail for molesting 25 children between 1968 and 1986. In court he called himself a "mere scumbag paedophile." The same could be said for much of the Vatican.
Paul Baldwin is a 49-year-old man from Portsmouth, New Hampshire. As of June, Baldwin has been arrested 154 times for arson, trespassing, receiving stolen property and theft, among others offenses. His most recent arrest was for stealing 48 beers.
50-year-old Michoel Streicher, a singer who calls himself "The Michael Jackson of Jewish music" was sentenced yesterday to a year in jail for swindling a woman out of $36,000 he said he would use to buy a torah.