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Stolen Video Games Help Catch A Predator

10:20AM Owen Good | A Delaware man is looking at some time in the slammer for failing to register himself as a sex offender, and he would have gotten away with it if it weren’t for those meddling video games. More »
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Stolen 360 Helps Cops Bag Prolific Bronx Burglar

10:00AM Owen Good | Jeremiah Gilliam’s streak of 200-plus larcenies and burglaries came to an end when the criminal mastermind plugged in a jacked Xbox Live, leading the cops directly to his door. More »
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Mum Calls 911 When Kid Won’t Stop Playing Console

2:00PM Owen Good | In Chicago last month, a kid called 911 when the ‘rents took away his Xbox 360. Saturday in a Boston suburb a mum dialled the law when her son wouldn’t stop playing. Oh yeah, Grand Theft Auto’s involved here, too. More »
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Detroit Shopper Gets Cray-Zay When He Can’t Return A Console

2:40PM Owen Good | The ancient Chinese curse reads, “May you live in interesting times.” So when a GameStopper says “It was an interesting day here,” you know he’s not talking about big sales. More »
Culture

Wii-Bowling Drug Cops Get Off Lite

2:40PM Owen Good | A-member them law enforcement perfesshunals in Florida who killed time on a raid by bowling up big scores on a drug kingpin’s Wii? Well, 11 of them got sanctioned for their conduct, but not too hard, now. More »
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Cops Play Wii During Undercover Drug Raid

12:00AM Owen Good | Guns drawn, cops busted down the door of a suspected south Florida drug dealer, then proceeded to kick some arse — on Wii bowling. A security cam captured some playing video games while others searched for drugs and weapons. More »
Culture

Hero Cop Popped In Video Game Ripoff

6:00AM Owen Good | A Lawrence, Kan. police officer who earned a medal for rescuing people from burning apartments now faces a 14-count federal indictment in an alleged buy-and-return video game fraud. More »
Culture

Mii Sought in Hit and Run

5:00AM Owen Good | Calling all cars: Be on lookout for this Mii in connection with a hit and run. Driver last seen in Moo Moo Meadows wearing Mii Outfit B. Suspect is believed to have unlimited blue shells. More »

Great Dane Gaming Mobilises SWAT Team

5:00AM Owen Good | We’ve heard of this in the States before, but if you game super loud in Denmark, especially in shooters with loud bang-bang noises, someone might sic a police strike force on you too. More »

Cop Pulls Over Driver, Seizes Xbox

8:20AM Stuart Houghton | Questions are being asked in Orange Country, Florida after a Sheriff’s Deputy apparently confiscated a man’s Xbox 360 in lieu of a speeding fine. I Am Not A Lawyer, and my knowledge of Florida traffic law is pretty minimal, but isn’t this a bit… unorthodox? More »