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# Thieves used a brick to smash the glass door of a pet shop overnight, then dashed in to snatch two Yorkshire Terrier puppies, priced at $2,500 each. They left a register full of cash untouched.
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# Police are looking for a couple who have been selling vacant lots as future homesites with fraudulent deeds. Police say the couple has victimized more than 100 people, taking in more than 20 million dollars.
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# James Giordano, 52, was arrested early Wednesday by FBI agents who had to scale the walls of his fortess-like Florida compound as part of an illegal gambling operation bust.

In June, Giordano left his laptop in a hotel room for a few hours, during which time period, the NYPD entered and made a digital copy of his hard drive.

*The defendants laundered and stashed away "untold millions of dollars" using shell corporations and bank accounts in Central America, the Caribbean, Switzerland, Hong Kong and elsewhere, said Queens District Attorney Richard Brown.*
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