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Theft

The following articles have been tagged with "Theft":

Police suspect theft after surprise cash 'windfall'

Business & Money: 24 May 12
A woman is suspected of theft after she dropped a stash of 1,000 kronor ($140) banknotes in southern Sweden and then fled the scene, while local residents rushed in to gather the loot that was blowing in the wind. READ »

Suspected paedophile's home in arson attack

National: 20 May 12
The house of a suspected paedophile was set ablaze on the night to Sunday, in what the police believe to be an arson attack. READ »

101-year-old woman scares off thief with stick

Society: 14 May 12
A 101-year-old woman fought back when a thief intruded into her home in northern Sweden, beating him over the head with a stick and frightening him from the house. READ »

Drunk man charged with hijacking brewery truck

National: 26 Apr 12
An inebriated man from southeastern Sweden has been charged with hijacking a brewery truck loaded full of empty bottles outside one of Sweden’s state run alcohol retailers, spreading broken glass in his wake. READ »

Boy, 16, suspected of stabbing sister to death

National: 25 Apr 12
A 19-year-old woman was found stabbed to death in her apartment in southern Sweden on Monday night and police have since arrested her 16-year-old younger brother on suspicion of murder. READ »

Copper thieves cut off Sweden's main rail line

Society: 4 Apr 12
Rail traffic connecting Stockholm, Malmö, and Copenhagen was brought to a standstill on Tuesday after thieves severed the high-voltage overhead lines in order to steal the valuable copper wire inside. READ »

Thieving teenage intern caught 'blue-handed'

National: 30 Mar 12
After thousands of kronor kept disappearing from the petty cash supply at a company in southern Sweden, police laid a trap to catch the thief "blue-handed". READ »

Phone theft victim gets nude Facebook pic shock

Society: 27 Mar 12
A woman from northern Sweden who had her mobile phone stolen at the weekend was later horrified to find naked pictures of herself posted on her own Facebook page. READ »

Thief steals front door, made to mount it

Business & Money: 23 Mar 12
While driving home from work a man in northwestern Sweden suddenly saw his front door zoom past the other way, strapped to the roof of another car. READ »

Men jailed for 'accidental' umbilical cord theft

National: 21 Mar 12
Three men have been convicted after a witness saw them breaking into an apartment in suburban Stockholm, whereupon the burglars filled their pockets with valuables – and an umbilical cord. READ »

Vibrating package baffles Swedish postal workers

Society: 9 Mar 12
Another thrilling week in Swedish media, but did you hear the one about the Swedish chef, the biting thief, and the vibrating package that closed down a post office? If not, The Local's News in Brief has all the answers. READ »

Swedish ‘pooper’ gets prison after shop dump

Society: 8 Mar 12
A 46-year-old man from eastern Sweden has been sentenced to two months in prison and a hefty fine after pooping on the floor in a sports shop in central Gävle. READ »

Drowsy thieves nabbed sleeping in stolen car

National: 5 Mar 12
When police in southern Sweden went to check up on a car, parked carelessly near a perilous crossing, they found the two car thieves fast asleep in the stolen vehicle. READ »

Four fined for buying stolen clothes on the net

Science & Technology: 1 Mar 12
Four women who were convicted for buying what turned out to be stolen clothes on Swedish internet auction site Tradera lost their appeal on Wednesday as the court ruled the women should have known the low-priced clothes were stolen. READ »

Convicted lay judges found working in Sweden

National: 20 Feb 12
The discovery that several of Sweden's lay judges have continued to work while having criminal records of their own has resulted in many either stepping down or being fired. READ »

Mother-killer murders dad and stepmum

National: 16 Feb 12
The 41-year-old man suspected of killing his father and stepmother in a Stockholm suburb on Wednesday, had previously been convicted of murdering his mother back in 1997. READ »

Pigeons 'beheaded and eaten' in Swede's kitchen

National: 31 Jan 12
Pigeon owners in southern Sweden were met with a gruesome sight when they found their pet birds decapitated and apparently eaten by a mystery intruder. READ »

Forced labour on the rise in Sweden: report

National: 15 Jan 12
Organized begging, forced labour and forced participation in thefts have bypassed human trafficking for sexual purposes, shows a recent report from the National Police Board. READ »

Friday the 13th 'not unlucky': Swedish study

Society: 13 Jan 12
Despite Friday the 13th having a reputation as an ill-fated day, fresh figures from Sweden have shown that there is nothing particularly unlucky about it at all. READ »

84-year-old killed for 'not lending grandson her car'

National: 9 Jan 12
Murder charges have been filed against a 22-year-old Swede suspected of killing his 84-year-old grandmother after she refused to let him borrow her car. READ »

Disabled at risk after assistance centre theft

Society: 26 Dec 11
A home assistance centre in Kronoberg, central Sweden, was left reeling after a burglary on Christmas day, where thieves took off with both cars and computers after demolishing the centre's offices. READ »

Tree-snatchers exposed by tracks in the snow

Society: 21 Dec 11
Police in Uppsala, north of Stockholm, caught two thieves stealing Christmas trees after following the tracks in the snow where they had dragged the loot from the scene of the crime. READ »

Agencies list Sweden's safest places

Society: 21 Dec 11
The safest municipality in Sweden is Habo, north of Jönköping in central Sweden, where the risk of having an accident or being subjected to a crime is the smallest in the country, according to a new report. READ »

Gang helping shoppers steal from Ikea

Business & Money: 6 Dec 11
A criminal gang is helping customers shoplift items from an Ikea store in northern Sweden by offering to carry items out the store's main entrance, allowing shoppers to bypass cashiers. READ »

Elvis' Swedish 'daughter' sues Presley estate

Society: 1 Dec 11
A Swedish woman who has long claimed that she is the rightful daughter of deceased US crooner Elvis Presley has sued the singer's estate for $130 million. READ »

Thief caught with loot down his underwear

Society: 29 Nov 11
A 26-year-old tourist to Malmö, southern Sweden, was recently arrested after being caught with 16 stolen mobile phones stuffed down his thermal underwear. READ »

'Missing' Swedish teen was held by police

National: 15 Nov 11
A mother had to wait five days to find out that Swedish police had arrested her 18-year-old son, by which time she had already reported him as a missing person. READ »

Teen uses 'Zlatan' move to swipe cop's iPhone

Society: 9 Nov 11
A Spanish teenager was recently charged with theft after being caught with a stolen mobile iPhone, pick-pocketed from a Swedish police officer while showing off a Zlatan Ibrahimovic football move. READ »

Police hunt snowblower, find moonshine

Society: 7 Nov 11
When police in northern Sweden were busy searching for a stolen snowblower they accidentally stumbled upon 130 litres of illegally distilled alcohol hidden in the same garage. READ »

Robbers jailed after pooping at crime scene

National: 31 Oct 11
Two men suspected of robbing a strawberry farmer earlier this year and arrested after forensics discovered their faeces near the getaway car, have been sentenced to prison, a Swedish court ruled on Monday. READ »

Thieves charged after pooping at crime scene

Society: 19 Oct 11
Three piles of human excrement left at a crime scene in central Sweden served as key evidence in the case against two men charged for tying up and robbing a strawberry farmer earlier this year. READ »

Swedish shoplifters prefer meat: study

Business & Money: 18 Oct 11
Swedes are the worst shoplifting offenders in the Nordic region, costing every resident 779 kronor ($117) per year in higher retail prices, according to a new study, which also found that meat is among the most popular items stolen. READ »

Caregiver steals from 98-year-old, goes free

National: 30 Sep 11
A caregiver in western Sweden, caught stealing from her elderly charge, has been freed after a court ruled that police planting money in the old woman’s wallet was entrapment. READ »

Sweden's 'most wanted' arrested in Slovakia

National: 16 Sep 11
One of Sweden's most wanted fugitives, who escaped from prison in August 2010, has been arrested in southern Slovakia, according to local police. READ »

Swedish police stealing confiscated goods

National: 1 Sep 11
Valuables worth hundreds of thousands of kronor left in police custody have disappeared in recent years, leading officials to conclude that police employees have been pilfering the goods, according to reports in the Swedish media. READ »

Swedish police 'return' stolen loot to criminal

National: 14 Aug 11
A van full of stolen goods, including a boat motor, previously confiscated by police in Sweden was returned to the man convicted of trying to move the items out of the country following his trial. READ »

Employee used store money for gambling

National: 14 Aug 11
A 30 year-old shop clerk in Vellinge, in southern Sweden, has been charged with misappropriation of funds, after having gambled away more than 400,000 kronor ($61,000) in the store she worked in - without paying a dime. READ »

Thief comes clean and empties undies of loot

Society: 9 Aug 11
A 31-year-old thief admitted to charges of aggravated theft in the middle of a remand hearing in Skellefteå in northern Sweden, and proceeded to produce his ill-gotten gains from his underpants. READ »

Swedish museum hit by rhino horn heist

Society: 27 Jul 11
The rhinoceros horn's reputed potency powers are believed to be the motive for the recent theft at a Gothenburg museum which left the museum's stuffed rhino a shadow of its former self. READ »

Swedish librarians find stolen atlas in New York

Society: 19 Jul 11
One of the books stolen from the Swedish National Library in the beginning of the 2000s has been discovered with a collector in New York. READ »

Copper thieves target Sweden's churches

Society: 18 Jul 11
A surge of copper thefts have left Sweden's churches reeling, as 26 thefts have already been reported in 2011, costing churches a hefty 1.8 million kronor ($274,000). READ »

Swedish teen girl trounces perfume thief

National: 16 Jul 11
A 37 year-old would-be thief in Lund, in southern Sweden, tried to make a run for it after pocketing perfume worth nearly 14,000 kronor ($2150), but was stopped by a 17-year-old girl tackling him into a wall. READ »

Man arrested at US classic car meet

Science & Technology: 9 Jul 11
A 21-year-old man was arrested last night, suspected of deliberately driving at and injuring another man during the Power Big Meet in Västerås. Police say he will be charged with attempted murder. READ »

Peace, love and 'the delirium of existence'

Lifestyle: 5 Jul 11
Ever wondered what a small Swedish town looks like when 50,000 music lovers invade its streets? Contributor Caroline Bursell finds out as she joins the throngs of festival-goers at Sweden's Borlänge Peace & Love festival 2011. READ »

Peru sues Swedish city over 'stolen' artifacts

Science & Technology: 5 Jul 11
The Peruvian president announced on Monday that the Latin American country is planning to sue Sweden's second largest city Gothenburg over the alleged theft of pre-Columbian textiles on exhibit in one of the city's museums. READ »

Unruly start to Swedish music fest

Society: 30 Jun 11
The music festival Peace & Love in Borlänge, in central Sweden, was off to an unruly start on Wednesday, with local police kept busy and holding facilities at capacity. READ »

Bouncers charged for multiple patron beatings

National: 20 Jun 11
Twelve bouncers from popular Gothenburg nightclubs have been charged for routinely assaulting patrons, sometimes using handcuffs, batons and even allegedly tossing one victim down a flight of stairs. READ »

‘VIP customers’ spent half million with skimmed cards

Society: 16 Jun 11
Three people in Sweden were charged with credit card fraud on Wednesday after using skimmed cards to buy everything from snacks to jewellery and clothes for a value up to 500,000 kronor ($77,000). READ »

Police face machine gun fire in bank robbery

National: 18 May 11
A branch of Handelsbanken in Flen in eastern Sweden was robbed on Wednesday morning by masked men armed with machine guns. Police later issued a nationwide-alert in hopes of catching the perpetrators. READ »

Swedish girl gang targets elderly single men

National: 13 May 11
After a spate of robberies by a gang of young women in Västerås in central Sweden, police have issued a warning to single elderly men to be on their guard. READ »

Looted Viking treasure trial gets under way

Science & Technology: 4 May 11
Wednesday marked the first day in a groundbreaking trial against five men charged with stealing a wealth of Viking age relics on the Swedish island of Gotland. READ »

Hidden cameras catch cleaners looting Swedish trains

National: 4 May 11
A number of sticky-fingered cleaners were caught red handed stealing liquor, beer, and candy from the restaurant cars of Swedish trains following the installation of hidden surveillance cameras. READ »

Man convicted over 'murder list'

National: 29 Mar 11
A man dubbed the "Bolt pistol man" after a livestock anaesthetizing device was used in an attack in Linköping in eastern Sweden in January, has been found guilty and is set to undergo a psychiatric examination. READ »

Malmö 'femme fatale' robbers charged

Society: 25 Mar 11
A gang of six who are alleged to have drugged and robbed a 25-year-old Malmö man after one of their number, an 18-year-old girl, had used her charms to trick her way into his apartment, were charged on Friday. READ »

Three appeal helicopter heist sentence

National: 17 Mar 11
Three of the men convicted for their roles in the spectacular helicopter heist in Västberga in September 2009 have appealed their sentences to the Supreme Court. READ »

Man faces charges over 'murder list'

National: 8 Mar 11
A man dubbed the "Bolt pistol man" after a livestock anaesthetizing device was used in an attack in Linköping in eastern Sweden in January, is set to be charged with planning 17 murders. READ »

Russian gas pipeline 'unstoppable': report

National: 7 Mar 11
Swedish objections to a controversial Baltic Sea pipeline to carry natural gas from Russia to Germany fell on deaf ears in Russia, according to US diplomatic cables released by WikiLeaks. READ »

Secret Nobel Prize documents stolen

Science & Technology: 23 Feb 11
Confidential information about possible winners for the Nobel Prize in Medicine has disappeared from a member of the committee. READ »

Midsummer murderer gets 18 years

Society: 18 Feb 11
A Swedish district court has sentenced a 33-year-old man to 18 years in prison for the murder and mutilation of a 30-year-old acquaintance on Midsummer's Eve last year in southern Sweden. READ »

Swedish postal worker stole birthday card cash

Society: 14 Feb 11
A female employee with Sweden's postal service has admitted to stealing money, gift vouchers and lottery tickets from letters that she sorted. READ »

'Jihad Jane' admits to Lars Vilks murder plot

National: 2 Feb 11
An American woman who referred to herself at "Jihad Jane" pleaded guilty on Tuesday to charged related to a 2009 plot to kill Swedish artist Lars Vilks. READ »

Swede jailed for Auschwitz sign theft

National: 30 Dec 10
A Polish court on Thursday sentenced a Swedish neo-Nazi leader who admitted to masterminding the theft of the Auschwitz death camp entrance sign, to 32 months behind bars in his homeland. READ »

Three convicted for Malmö Art Museum theft

Society: 29 Dec 10
Three men were convicted on Wednesday of involvement in the theft of several works of art, including Edvard Munch's "Two Friends", from the Malmö Art Museum in September. READ »

Swedish wheelchair thieves tracked in snow

Society: 27 Dec 10
A trio of Boxing Day thieves in southern Sweden were caught red-handed after police followed the tracks that the two wheelchair-bound members of the group had left in the snow. READ »

Snow blower snatchers take Stockholm by storm

Science & Technology: 19 Dec 10
With more heavy snowfall expected in eastern Sweden on Sunday, police in Stockholm find themselves chasing a new class of thieves who may simply be looking for a way to give their weary backs a rest. READ »

Stolen silver treasure recovered on Gotland

Science & Technology: 8 Dec 10
An old silver treasure dating back to the Viking Age that was stolen on Gotland a year ago was recovered on Wednesday. READ »

Interpol issues alert for WikiLeaks' Assange

Science & Technology: 1 Dec 10
Interpol has alerted member states to arrest WikiLeaks' founder Julian Assange on the basis of a Swedish warrant related to an ongoing rape investigation, the global police agency said Wednesday. READ »

Swede strikes plea deal for Auschwitz theft

National: 25 Nov 10
A Swedish neo-Nazi leader will serve prison time in his homeland after pleading guilty for his role in the theft of entrance sign of the Auschwitz death camp, Polish prosecutors said on Thursday. READ »

Ship to Gaza lawyer to file Israel police report

National: 9 Nov 10
Ship to Gaza, the Swedish organisation behind a Gaza-bound aid ship boarded in May by Israeli commandos, has retained plans to file a complaint with Israeli police despite the expulsion of two of its members from Israel on Sunday. READ »

Lithuanian rugby players angry after Sweden theft

Sport: 8 Nov 10
Lithuania's rugby federation plans to report an incident of changing room burglary during a match against Sweden to the International Rugby Board, claiming that their hosts had brushed the matter aside. READ »

Swedish professor rejoices over laptop thief's memory stick miracle

Science & Technology: 15 Oct 10
A professor at Umeå University in northern Sweden was stunned after a thief who stole his laptop went through great pains to return the machine's contents. READ »

Second suspect held in Malmö art theft

Society: 13 Oct 10
Another man is being held for his suspected involvement in the theft of three paintings from the Malmö Art Museum last week. Police believe the heist was an inside job. READ »

Guilty verdicts for helicopter heist suspects

National: 7 Oct 10
Several suspects involved in last year’s Hollywood-style helicopter heist of a cash depot south of Stockholm were found guilty on Thursday. READ »

Man held over Malmö Art Museum theft

Society: 7 Oct 10
A man has been arrested in connection with the theft of art worth millions of kronor from the Malmö Art Museum which was only discovered when police unearthed a work by Edvard Munch during a raid on a flat in Landskrona. READ »

Man charged over million kronor ATM withdrawal

National: 14 Sep 10
A man from Borås in western Sweden has been charged with fraud after taking advantage of a technical fault to withdraw 1.6 million kronor ($224,000) from a cash machine, despite having only a couple of thousand kronor in savings. READ »

Left leader condemns attack on far-right

National: 13 Sep 10
Left Party leader Lars Ohly has condemned an attack on a local politician representing the far-right Sweden Democrats in Malmö on Friday, while the party on Monday suspended a rally in Gothenburg due to a counter-demonstration. READ »

Helicopter heist trial closes in Stockholm

National: 9 Sep 10
The court trial of the ten men charged with the dramatic helicopter heist on a cash depot in southern Stockholm last September wrapped up on Wednesday, a judge in the case confirmed. READ »

Suspects deserve the 'maximum penalty'

National: 2 Sep 10
The prosecution presented its final arguments on Thursday in the trial of 10 men suspected of carrying out a brazen helicopter-aided robbery of a Stockholm cash depot last September. READ »

Man jailed for murder of 18-year-old

National: 1 Sep 10
A 22-year-old man accused of killing a 18-year-old woman in Hjällbo north of Gothenburg was sentenced to 16 years in prison on Wednesday for murder and attempted aggravated rape. READ »

Police discover stash of napalm material

National: 13 Aug 10
Swedish police have discovered a store of ammunition in rural Österlen in southern Sweden after a raid targeting two men, aged 20 and 23-years-old. Among the items seized was alunat, a material used to make napalm. READ »

Helicopter heist suspect confesses to theft

National: 9 Aug 10
A 31-year-old man charged with playing a role in a spectacular robbery at a Stockholm cash depot last year has admitted he was involved in the heist. READ »

Break in at Stockholm royal palace

National: 6 Aug 10
Thieves broke into the Chinese Pavilion at Drottningholm Palace - the home of Sweden's king - in western Stockholm on Thursday night. Police have not yet established what has been taken but believe that it was a contract job. READ »

Juvenile care for teen girlfriend murder

National: 3 Aug 10
A 16-year-old boy was sentenced on Tuesday to three years juvenile detention for the murder of his girlfriend of the same age. He was also ordered to pay 210,000 kronor ($30,000) in damages to the girl's family. READ »

Two helicopter heist thieves still at large

National: 19 Jul 10
Ten men caught after a helicopter heist at a cash depot in southern Stockholm belonging to security company G4S were sentenced on Monday, while two other known thieves remain unidentified and at large. READ »

Young girl forced to steal handbags

Society: 17 Jul 10
A 32-year-old man has been arrested in Bulgaria and handed over to judicial authorities in Sweden where he is suspected of human trafficking crimes involving the exploitation of an 11-year-old girl. READ »

Poland asks Sweden to probe Auschwitz theft

National: 8 Jul 10
Poland has asked Sweden to question three suspects about the theft of the "Arbeit macht frei" sign at the Nazi death camp at Auschwitz, Polish prosecutors said on Thursday. READ »

Swede's remand for Auschwitz theft extended

National: 2 Jul 10
A Polish court has remanded in custody a Swedish suspect on Thursday for a further two months over the theft of the "Arbeit macht frei" sign from the Nazi death camp at Auschwitz. READ »

Driver hits elk and runs off with slice of thigh

National: 23 Jun 10
A car driver involved in a collision with an elk on the E22 motorway in Blekinge in southern Sweden, claimed a slice of meat from the animal's thigh before fleeing the scene in a hit and run incident that has left a local hunter seething. READ »

Second Swede sought over Auschwitz theft

National: 10 Jun 10
Polish authorities want to question a second Swede, millionaire Lars-Göran Wahlström, about the theft of the "Arbeit macht frei" sign at the Auschwitz concentration camp READ »

Auschwitz theft suspect claims persecution

National: 24 May 10
Swedish former neo-Nazi leader Anders Högström, held in Poland in connection with the theft of the "Arbeit Macht Frei" sign from Auschwitz, has reported the tax agency for denying him protected identity, arguing that he is being victimized. READ »

Hotel fined for guest slur at discrimination seminar

National: 21 May 10
A Swedish appeals court has ruled that a Norrköping hotel was guilty of discriminating against a guest who was participating at a conference on ethnic discrimination at the time. READ »

Stolen Milles statue found in woods

National: 11 May 10
A bronze statue by Swedish sculptor Carl Milles, stolen from a Gothenburg hospital five years ago, has been found in a nearby forest. READ »

Swede remanded over Auschwitz theft

National: 17 Apr 10
Swedish former neo-Nazi leader Anders Högström has been remanded in custody in Poland in connection with the theft of the notorious "Arbeit Macht Frei" sign from the Auschwitz death camp. READ »

Faked cerebral palsy netted millions in benefit

Society: 14 Apr 10
A 32-year-old man from Halmstad is suspected of having cheated his way to benefits of almost five million kronor ($700,000) from the Social Insurance Agency by pretending to be mentally disabled. READ »

Poles quiz Swede over Auschwitz sign theft

National: 12 Apr 10
Polish prosecutors said on Monday they had begun questioning Swedish former neo-Nazi leader Anders Högström over his alleged involvement in the theft of the "Arbeit Macht Frei" sign from the Auschwitz death camp. READ »

Swedish ex-Nazi extradited over sign theft

National: 9 Apr 10
Former Swedish neo-Nazi leader Anders Högtröm has been extradited from Sweden to Poland where he is suspected of involvement in the theft of the infamous "Arbeit Macht Frei" sign from the Auschwitz death camp. READ »

Norrland church thief demands cash for stolen statue

National: 9 Apr 10
The Spanish man jailed in 2007 for a spate of thefts from churches in northern Sweden has demanded 60,000 kronor ($8,300) for the return of a stolen 15th century statue. READ »

Auschwitz theft suspect extradited 'this week'

National: 7 Apr 10
Former Swedish neo-Nazi Anders Högström is to be extradited to Poland this week to answer charges in connection with the theft of the "Arbeit Macht Frei" sign from the Auschwitz death camp, a prosecutor said on Tuesday. READ »

Stockholm defends city housing sell-offs

Politics: 31 Mar 10
Stockholm city council has defended its policy of privatising municipal-owned housing, which has come under fire after a couple of recent apartment sales led to windfalls for their new tenant-owners. READ »

Accident victims stole good Samaritan's car

National: 23 Mar 10
When a man stopped to offer his help at the scene of an accident outside Alingsås in western Sweden on Monday, a couple who had been involved in the crash took the chance to steal his car. READ »


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