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US Sounds Alarm Over Tourist Crime In Popular Tropical Getaway US Sounds Alarm Over Tourist Crime In Popular Tropical Getaway
US Sounds Alarm Over Tourist Crime In Popular Tropical Getaway A popular Central American getaway spot is under new scrutiny after US officials warned that criminals are increasingly targeting tourists and foreign residents with robberies and extortion schemes. In a security alert issued on Tuesday, Nov. 25, the US Embassy in San Jose, Costa Rica, said it is tracking a rise in property crimes, financial crimes, and robberies affecting foreigners across the country, including US citizens.  The alert describes criminal gangs targeting foreign-owned homes and businesses for break-ins and extortion. It also details cases in which foreign residents and…
Thieves Turn Fairfax ATM Into Cash Spigot, Walk Off With $175K In High-Tech Heist, Police Say Thieves Turn Fairfax ATM Into Cash Spigot, Walk Off With $175K In High-Tech Heist, Police Say
Thieves Turn Fairfax ATM Into Cash Spigot, Walk Off With $175K In High-Tech Heist, Police Say A crew of high-tech thieves turned a Virginia ATM into a late-night cash geyser, walking away with $175,000 after cracking open the machine, filming themselves, and forcing it to spit out bills without ever inserting a card, according to Fairfax County Police. Detectives say the group hit the Apple Federal Credit Union ATM on Members Way near Fair Oaks three separate times in one night, using a scheme known as ATM jackpotting — a cyber-physical attack that makes a machine “rapidly dispense cash on command,” similar to hitting a slot machine jackpot. Police released images showing the suspec…
Foreign Nationals Charged In Virginia Walmart Abduction, Armed Robbery: Police Foreign Nationals Charged In Virginia Walmart Abduction, Armed Robbery: Police
Foreign Nationals Charged In Virginia Walmart Abduction, Armed Robbery: Police Talk about a terrifying shopping trip. Three foreign nationals are behind bars after allegedly abducting a woman outside a Walmart in Virginia, forcing her at gunpoint to drive to an ATM, and then to her home before fleeing with stolen cash and property, police announced. The Culpeper Police Department said it happened Wednesday morning, Aug. 27, around 10:30 a.m., when the woman was leaving the Walmart on James Madison Highway. Investigators said the suspects — Luis Felipe Garcia Baez, a resident of Mexico, Claudia Teresa Aldana Restrepo, and Elisa Andrea Espitia Campos, both of Colombia …