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pilferage

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In the second novel of the Amina al-Sirafi fantasy series, Chakraborty sets her pirate protagonist out onto the high seas for some perilous pilfering after being dragged into her partner’s problems.

— Erik Pedersen, Oc Register, 8 May 2026

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That same day, the Shoplifting Task Force, which works with the Flint Township Police Department and the Genesee County Prosecutor's Office, coordinated a regional shoplifting blitz.

— Paula Wethington, CBS News, 27 Oct. 2026
Officers were at the Walmart to respond to a call about an alleged shoplifting and encountered two people with a child fleeing from the store into a vehicle, the Mississippi Department of Public Safety said at the time of the June 14 incident.

— Charlotte Phillipp, PEOPLE, 25 Oct. 2026

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Ford said Ahmed’s checks were made out to Ford’s 2019 mayoral campaign and were cashed before the hospital embezzlement scandal.

— Olivia Olander, Chicago Tribune, 28 Oct. 2026
Daniel Elie Bouaziz, who owned two galleries in Palm Beach County, had pleaded guilty to a single count of money laundering, while prosecutors agreed to drop 16 other counts related to fraud and embezzlement.

— ABC News, ABC News, 16 Oct. 2026

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Just ask Indianapolis’s Tony Kiritsis, who, in February of 1977, parlayed an ideological kidnapping into an unlikely turn as a folk hero.

— Graham Hillard, The Washington Examiner, 30 Oct. 2026
The investigation revealed that the kidnapping victims are the parents of a man who allegedly participated in the theft of hundreds of millions of dollars in Bitcoin, according to court records.

— Staff Report, Hartford Courant, 30 Oct. 2026

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The International Criminal Court in 2023 issued an arrest warrant for Putin for war crimes, accusing him of personal responsibility for the abductions of children from Ukraine.

— ABC News, ABC News, 24 Oct. 2026
Other theories about Madeleine’s disappearance include a botched robbery that resulted in her murder or an abduction by human traffickers.

— Frannie Comstock, Encyclopedia Britannica, 23 Oct. 2026

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