All news on the topic: Arrests

In a New York town, there is a significant rise in a fraud scheme involving the theft of checks directly from official collection boxes.

In the previous week, Mexico has seen heightened federal operations focusing on senior members of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG), intensifying confrontations in key strongholds.

On Wednesday, Italian police arrested four people in connection with an alleged Camorra scheme to infiltrate a Naples hospital, stage fake crashes for insurance payouts, and secretly transport corpses on oxygen-masked stretchers to benefit from private ambulance transfers.

Authorities in Georgia have arrested the former mayor of Lentekhi, a small town about 320 kilometers northwest of the capital, Tbilisi, along with two municipal officials. They are accused of issuing a hotel construction permit to a company owned by the ex-mayor’s wife without adhering to required procedures.

Four individuals have been arrested in the eastern Indian state of Jharkhand for allegedly burning a woman and her 10-month-old son to death on suspicion of practicing witchcraft earlier this week.

A significant fraudulent scheme involving ticket sales has allegedly generated over €10 million in illegal profits, with museum staff and tour guides among those arrested.

French and Romanian authorities have arrested 13 individuals suspected of laundering at least 306 million euros ($364 million) in proceeds from drug trafficking and other crimes, Eurojust announced.

North Koreans who are caught watching South Korean television shows face public humiliation, years in labor camps, or even execution—with the harshest punishments for those too poor to pay bribes, according to testimonies given to Amnesty International.

A single tip regarding a quiet suburban home in California led to a major human trafficking bust, rescuing nearly 20 children, uncovering residential brothels, and resulting in over 600 arrests across the state, authorities reported on Tuesday.

Police have apprehended four individuals and confiscated servers valued at £750,000 in a significant new advancement in the fight against illegal streaming.

A neo-Nazi extremist group known as the Black Sun Rising Militia planned coordinated terrorist attacks across the US and Europe before its leader, Vincent Weidlich, was arrested in Brazil.

Greek authorities are preparing further arrests in a major European Union farm subsidy fraud case after taking 15 suspects into custody last week, the minister of citizen protection said Monday.

Authorities in Europe and Israel have targeted companies and suspects behind fraudulent social media advertising campaigns as part of a crackdown on a massive cryptocurrency fraud and money laundering operation, which allegedly scammed thousands of victims with fake online investment schemes.

Over a five-year investigation resulted in the arrest of 24 members of an international drug-trafficking network, Eurojust announced on Thursday.

Since the beginning of 2025, Myanmar authorities have arrested 12,468 foreign nationals in relation to fraud and illegal gambling at scam centers, with 9,978 already deported.

Brooklyn’s dine-and-dash influencer shows no signs of stopping.

People continue to launch fireworks near highly flammable areas year after year — with disastrous results. And now, one group of firework-happy individuals on a private yacht in Greece are learning their lesson the hard way.

Nearly two dozen people were arrested as faith leaders protested on Friday outside a federal immigration facility near Chicago, authorities said, highlighting the ongoing tensions over the Trump administration’s aggressive enforcement efforts.

Spanish police said Sunday that they seized 6.5 tons of cocaine and arrested nine people after a U.S. tip-off led them to raid a ship off the Canary Islands a few days ago.

Officials in Florida have faced accusations of secretly deleting records that revealed American citizens were caught up in the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown, just days after reporters started inquiring about them.

“Fast and Furious” star Tyrese Gibson was arrested Friday after his four mastiff dogs allegedly mauled his neighbor’s dainty pooch, as footage captured the animals lurking at the door moments before the tragedy.

The operation covered 18 countries across Asia and North Africa, with authorities reportedly seizing fentanyl in amounts "enough to kill 151 million people."

The Trump administration announced Thursday that the agency that assesses whether immigrants should be granted green cards and citizenship will add its own law enforcement agents who can carry firearms and make arrests.

Emmanuel Haro's father admitting to killing the 7-month-old and then dumping his body in a trash can, according to a new report — as authorities say the baby died after enduring lengthy abuse by his parents.