The Local France reports that two Chinese tourists in Paris found themselves in hot water recently with anti-fraud authorities. After paying their €70 hotel bill in €1 coins, police found €3,700 in change in their possession, and arrested them on suspicion of forgery. The two tourists, aged 29 and 30 had been staying in a hotel in Bagnolet, in the Seine-Saint-Denis suburb of the French capital. When the time came to settle their bill, hotel management ended up calling the police. The pair hadn’t run out without paying, though. Their offense was attempting to use a massive pile of €1 coins as payment. Read article
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According to Sky News, a drunk airline passenger who stripped naked on the tarmac and challenged the flight captain to a fight had to be tasered by police. The burly, tattooed 52-year-old was caught on video stripping to his black underpants, shouting and remonstrating after stepping off the easyJet flight from Malta to Manchester. He […]
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As reported by khaleejtimes.com, the Sharjah Police on Tuesday arrested a gang of three Pakistanis, including a woman, who allegedly specialised in selling fake gold jewellery using forged receipts. The police received a complaint from a jewellery shop owner about a woman who came to exchange gold ornaments with genuine ones and produced receipts for […]
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According to gulfnews.com, in yet another incident of harassment of women tourists at the famous Ajanta and Ellora Caves in Aurangabad, a Russian couple was photographed, harassed and abused until police intervened. Local police arrested 11 men who were among a group of 250 tourists who had arrived in four busloads from the Indore district […]
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CBC reports that immigration officials say a Chinese citizen, who travelled to Canada on a tourist’s visa, may have spent his time in this country scamming seniors. Huo Youjin and four women were detained at Vancouver’s airport last month as they tried to return to China. Canada Border Services Agency say they were carrying $148,000 […]
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Globalpost.com reported that UK nationals Melissa Reid and Michaella McCollum have given up their six-week attempt to prove their innocence, after they were accused of attempting to smuggle 24 pounds of cocaine out of Peru. More than 140 drug “mules” have been arrested at the Lima airport so far this year. Read Article
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According to thenational.ae, a tourist who slashed one of his wrists with a bread knife to get his wife’s attention was yesterday sentenced to a month in jail and deportation. F W, 31, from Norway, cut himself during a row with his wife then locked himself in the bathroom and fell unconscious. When police arrived they […]
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According to mauinews.com, California tourist was given jail time Monday after nearly a dozen abuse-related charges against his girlfriend last week, police said. Read article
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Colombian police arrested at Bogotá airport to a Canadian citizen carrying two kilos of cocaine hidden in a latex tummy with pretending to be pregnant, police sources said Wednesday. The woman, identified as Tabatha Leah Ritchie, 28, a social worker by profession, had entered the country on August 6 from Toronto (Canada). Read Article
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According to AOL Travel UK, two female British tourists have been arrested in Portugal after allegedly hiring a firm to kidnap them as part of their 40th birthday celebrations. Police raced to Lisbon’s Restauradores Square after receiving a string of calls about witnessing masked men forcing two women into a white van. Several police cars […]
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