Teen faked elaborate sex-ring kidnapping story
Christina Almanza, 17, from the Sacramento area is facing charges after allegedly faking an elaborate kidnapping story via text messages and voice mails. Almanza was the subject of an Amber Alert after...
View ArticlePiano teacher mutilated her own hands with kitchen knife in bid to convince...
An piano teacher from England, Tracy Frankcom, stabbed herself with a knife, wrote poison pen letters then claimed she was the victim of a stalker. These incidents triggered a police manhunt which...
View ArticleCops arrest 72 in crackdown over ‘Monkey man’ rumour
Mumbai Police are cracking the whip on rumours about ‘monkey men’ and the ‘chaddi baniyan gang’ which have circulated around the city in recent months. They have now arrested 72 people for allegedly...
View ArticleGerman teenagers who made hoax calls about tiger on the loose face detention
Four Bavarian boys who cried “Tiger” and sparked a huge police hunt for an escaped big cat have been told off by a judge. Three of the four will spend time in youth detention. The teenagers from...
View ArticlePolice arrest man claiming to be Justin Bieber
A man claiming to be Justin Bieber was arrested on a public drunkenness complaint. Oklahoma City police responded to a disturbance call about a man breaking a neighbour’s windows at about 3:40 a.m. on...
View ArticleCouple in missing child hoax to get a lift home from the seaside
An English couple sparked an major search operation after claiming their three-year-old daughter had gone missing in order to get a lift home. Dozens of police officers were drafted in after the pair...
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