Crime

We don’t generally associate Sweden with carjacking. But Kortedala, a suburb of the city of Gotenberg, was nonetheless the site of one of the strangest car thefts we’ve ever read. It involves a toy gun, a nine-year-old  and an electric car.

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Former Penn State coach Jerry Sandusky, who was found guilty last week on dozens of counts of child sexual abuse, had been prepared to take the stand in his own defense during his trial — until he learned his adopted son Matt was ready to testify that his father had molested him as a child.

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The elderly may seem like easy targets to thieves, but as this story shows, that isn’t always the case. On Monday, an unidentified 90-year-old California woman teamed up with a good Samaritan to chase down a mugger who robbed her outside a convenience store. Is this the beginning of a new crime fighting duo?

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Last week, the FBI announced that violent crime dropped four percent in 2011, compared to a 5.5 percent drop in 2010.

However, according to a 24/7 Wall St. review of 2011 FBI crime statistics, violent crime is on the rise in places that already have the highest rates for it in the country — both murder and burglary have gone up.

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It never seems to fail — where there’s a twinge of desperation, a nearby Walmart, and just enough faith in a reckless gamble to go over the wall, the derelict sideshow and dumb circus is there.

Apparently, one man from New York does not intend to change that.

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The first photos of Ronald Poppo, the victim in that horrific face-chewing incident in Miami, have been released. Although doctors say Poppo remains positive and upbeat, the evidence of what he’s been through is brutally apparent.

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A Connecticut man arrested for attempting to rob a woman at knifepoint a while back has come up with an interesting defense — he says he was sleepwalking at the time. We’ve heard of sleep-eating before, but sleep-robbing? That’s a new one.

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In the fairy tale ‘Hansel and Gretel,’ the brother-and-sister pair leave a trail of breadcrumbs behind to help them retrace their steps back home.

But apparently some California thieves weren’t familiar with the story — it was their own trail of food-related evidence that helped police find them.

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A video that seemingly depicts a security guard in Malaysia standing by and doing nothing as a woman is mugged in broad daylight has drawn criticism from those who think he should’ve intervened. But all may not be as it seems.

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No means no — on a date and when it comes to telemarketing.

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