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The Evansville Police Department has asked for the help of the public to identify two suspects believed to be involved in a catalytic converter theft caught on camera in an Evansville area parking lot. The footage shared by the Evansville Police Department to their official Facebook page shows two suspects traipsing through the shadows under the cover of darkness as they make their way to the far side of small car in the parking lot. The video then shows the suspects jacking up the vehicle and ...

Article content In an effort to target property crime, RCMP hooked and reeled in three individuals with the use of a bait vehicle in the Grande Prairie area over a recent four-week period. The Grande Prairie RCMP Crime Reduction Unit, assisted by members from the Grande Prairie Rural and Grande Prairie General Duty area, conducted the operation to battle property crimes. We apologize, but this video has failed to load. Try refreshing your browser. Grande Prairie RCMP target property crime, ree...

Shots were fired Thursday afternoon in the parking lot area of Town East Mall, Mesquite police said.

AGN Media Officials with the Amarillo Police Department released information on a recovered stolen vehicle and a related incident Monday afternoon, which led to an arrest.  According to a news release, officers with the department were called to meet with detectives from the Panhandle Auto Burglary and Theft Unit at 4:17 p.m. Monday in the 1200 block of south Garfield Street. Detectives from the unit had located a stolen truck at the address. Officers also found a second stolen vehicle in the...

Amarillo police find stolen vehicles, arrest man after brief chase Share on Facebook Share on LinkedIn AMARILLO, Texas (KFDA) - Police recovered two stolen vehicles and arrested a man after a foot chase in northeast Amarillo Monday. Officers were dispatched at 4:17 p.m. to assist detectives from the Panhandle Auto Burglary and Theft Unit at a home near Garfield Street and SE 12th Avenue. The detectives had located a stolen pickup at the home, according to officials. When police approached, two ...

Coronavirus is king of consumer complaints, state attorney general says Samantha McDaniel Ogletree, Journal-Courier FacebookTwitterEmail COVID-19-related complaints were among the highest received by the Illinois Attorney General’s Office last year. Attorney General Kwame Raoul’s office received 4,879 COVID-19-related complaints, ranging from price gouging to housing complaints to fraud resulting from identity theft related to the Illinois Department of Employment Security. Raoul said thes...

APD: Traffic stop yields two arrests AGN Media The Amarillo Police Department said a Tuesday traffic stop by an officer resulted in the arrest of two men for a stolen vehicle.  Per a Wednesday APD media release, an officer at a red light at SW 15th Avenue and South Washington Street saw a 2000 black Chevrolet Suburban that had been reported stolen through the department on Jan. 22.  Authorities said the officer stopped the vehicle in a driveway in the 1700 block of South Hughes Street, whe...

Amarillo police arrest 3 after suspicious vehicle investigation Amarillo police arrested three people over the weekend after a suspicious vehicle investigation. (Source: Gray News) By Kaitlin Johnson | January 13, 2021 at 10:06 AM CST - Updated January 13 at 10:06 AM AMARILLO, Texas (KFDA) - Amarillo police arrested three people over the weekend after a suspicious vehicle investigation. On Sunday, January 10, police were called to the 6500 block of East Amarillo Boulevard on a suspicious...

UPDATE 1/11/2021: The Evansville Police Department released photos today of two vehicles believed to have been involved in the theft that took place October 18, 2020 from a storage unit on Indiana Street in Evansville, Indiana. The theft occurred around 9am that morning when two vehicles entered and left the storage facility at the same time. One vehicle appears to be a Chrysler 300 that in photos appears to be silver or possibly white in color. The other vehicle seen leaving with the stolen tr...

Potter County and the city of Amarillo have filed a joint grant application with the states Motor Vehicle Crime Prevention Authority to secure funding to continue the Panhandle Auto Burglary and Theft Unit.  Officials previously noted the Panhandle Auto Burglary and Theft Unit consists of investigators from the Potter County and Randall County sheriff’s offices, the Amarillo Police Department and the Department of Public Safety. Per the interlocal agreement, the targeted funding al...