BADALONA, Spain (AP) — Firefighters in northeastern Spain found three bodies in an abandoned industrial complex occupied by migrants and other squatters that caught fire and partially collapsed, while ongoing emergency work assisted by sniffer dogs and drones on Thursday …
A new group trying to reduce metal theft from agriculture operations in Mississippi, Louisiana and Arkansas. Mississippi Secretary of State Delbert Hosemann said his office is creating a Mississippi Delta Agricultural Theft Task Force to connect law enforcement agencies, scrap …
Portland, Ore., police arrested a city worker accused of taking part in an auto theft scheme. Sgt. Pete Simpson says 53-year-old Barbara Lorraine Peterson was arrested Wednesday at the Bureau of Transportation’s abandoned autos division. Investigators say Peterson provided information …
A Ohio man was ordered to pay more than $30,000 in restitution for working while collecting workplace injury benefits. Dale Richards pleaded guilty March 12 to workers’ compensation fraud, a fifth-degree felony, after an investigation by the Ohio Bureau of …
Authorities have charged two Albany men with stealing four tons of storm grates from suburban parking lots and selling them as scrap metal. Police tell local media outlets that 44-year-old John Gulnick and 43-year-old David Kuehl have been charged on …
Two New York men face grand larceny charges after the Chenango County Sheriff’s office accused them of stealing 50 feet of railroad track and selling it as scrap metal. The sheriff’s office tells local media outlets that 22-year-old Cody Gay …
Smaller communities in Wisconsin’s Fox Valley have seen an unusual rash of catalytic converter thefts because thieves can scrape out and sell precious metals contained in the parts, police said. Jason Weber, community liaison officer for the Town of Menasha …
Newark, Del., police have arrested a man they say stole 18 scrap air conditioners from a business. Police were called to the business about 11 p.m. Wednesday. Officers say burglars had cut a fence and once inside a storage yard, …
Madisonville, Ky., police are asking the public’s help after a rash of storm grate thefts have left exposed holes around the city. Lt. Jason Lutz says the thefts ran through May and June and roughly 30 grates have been taken. …
St. Louis, Mo., police say a revised law is encouraging thieves to steal older cars and sell them for scrap, causing a big rise in auto thefts. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports the law, which took effect last August, made …