Crime Watch

By Carl Schreck / Staff Writer
28 March 2007
The beheaded body of a Georgian trader was discovered at a train station in the Moscow region, a Georgian Embassy spokesman said Tuesday.   >>

By Carl Schreck / Staff Writer
28 February 2007
A government official from Ingushetia has died in a Moscow hospital after being savagely beaten near the Sukharevskaya metro station last week in what prosecutors say may have been a hate crime.   >>

By Carl Schreck / Staff Writer
21 February 2007
A city official from the prestigious Cheryomushki district was gunned down Monday outside Moscow in a contract-style murder that may be tied to property disputes.   >>

By Carl Schreck / Staff Writer
14 February 2007
A Dutch citizen was arrested in Moscow last week on suspicion of running a smuggling ring that brought diamonds and other precious gems into Russia from South Africa, the Interior Ministry said.   >>

By Carl Schreck / Staff Writer
07 February 2007
People are borrowing record amounts of money to pay for more creature comforts, and police blotters across the country make clear that criminals have taken note of this consumer trend.   >>

By Carl Schreck / Staff Writer
31 January 2007
A Ukrainian online gamer is facing up to 15 years in prison for stomping a fellow gamer to death in central Moscow after bad blood in a virtual world spilled over into the real one, prosecutors said.   >>

By Carl Schreck / Staff Writer
24 January 2007
Thieves broke into the elite central Moscow residence of a former Miss Russia last Friday and made off with cash and valuables estimated at almost $2 million, authorities said.   >>

By Kevin O'Flynn / Staff Writer
17 January 2007
Russia may seem to be a place where a libertine lifestyle can be indulged without leaving a trace, but now thanks to the ever-ingenious pirated-CD salesman, there are some nervous lovers of paid sex out there.   >>

By Carl Schreck / Staff Writer
11 January 2007
Investigators cracked what was likely the city's last kidnapping case of 2006 after the captors made the mistake of allowing their hostage to make a phone call, police said Wednesday.   >>

By Carl Schreck / Staff Writer
20 December 2006
Using firepower reminiscent of the gangland wars of the 1990s, unidentified assailants fired two rocket-propelled grenades at an armored car Saturday in an apparent attempt on the life of a little-known vegetable-oil mogul.   >>

By Carl Schreck / Staff Writer
13 December 2006
A Turkish diplomat was stabbed over the weekend outside a popular expat haunt in central Moscow, police and embassy officials said Tuesday.   >>

By Carl Schreck / Staff Writer
06 December 2006
In the Soviet era, the Exhibition of Achievements of the National Economy, or VDNKh, was a glittering tribute to internationalism, highlighted by the gilded Fountain of People's Friendship.   >>

By Carl Schreck / Staff Writer
29 November 2006
Amid a spate of crimes against Western Europeans, a German man had more than $35,000 withdrawn from his bank account after his wallet was stolen during lunch at a central Moscow cafe.   >>

By Carl Schreck / Staff Writer
22 November 2006
Police find the remains after responding to a call from a tenant who had been shown a severed ear.   >>

By Carl Schreck / Staff Writer
15 November 2006
The driver had been fired three years before for taking a bus on a drunken joy ride.   >>

By Carl Schreck / Staff Writer
08 November 2006
A retired Air Force pilot has been accused of trying to sell 50,000 liters of banned Moldovan wine, city police said.   >>

By Carl Schreck / Staff Writer
01 November 2006
It was a scam that would have made Ostap Bender proud.
City police are investigating a company that obtained the medical records of people suffering from eye maladies and used the information to market therapeutic eye drops that contained nothing but distilled water.   >>

By Carl Schreck / Staff Writer
25 October 2006
A Moscow man turned himself in to authorities last week and admitted to shoving a woman during an argument over a fender bender, causing her to fall into the path of an oncoming truck.   >>

By Carl Schreck / Staff Writer
18 October 2006
Nine mental patients who had been confined to a Moscow region psychiatric hospital for committing violent crimes broke out Friday after a nurse refused to let them watch a football match.   >>

By Carl Schreck / Staff Writer
11 October 2006
A Moscow man was killed last week in a drunken scuffle when a grenade exploded in his pocket.   >>

By Simon Saradzhyan / Staff Writer
04 October 2006
An 18-year-old girl and three friends have been charged with slipping drugs into men's drinks and robbing them of money to go clubbing.   >>

By David Nowak / Staff Writer
27 September 2006
Authorities say the suspect, Besik Kochalidze, may have fled the country after the attack at the school in southwestern Moscow.   >>

By Simon Saradzhyan / Staff Writer
20 September 2006
City prosecutors say they have found the killer of Yekaterina Kiryushina, a 23-year-old Moscow State University student brutally attacked Sept. 11 with a hammer, national newspapers reported.   >>

By Carl Schreck / Staff Writer
06 September 2006
A car thief with a tragicomic record of heists gone awry was arrested Thursday morning after the Volkswagen he had stolen ran out of gas in rush hour traffic, police said.   >>

By David Nowak / Staff Writer
30 August 2006
A 15-year-old girl stabbed and killed a man with his own knife late last week in northern Moscow after he purportedly tried to rape her, investigators said.   >>

By Carl Schreck / Staff Writer
09 August 2006
A security guard stole 18,000 rubles ($675) from the bank where he worked and was caught trying to use the money to pay back a loan to the same bank, police said.   >>

By Carl Schreck / Staff Writer
02 August 2006
When a plumber responded to complaints about clogged pipes in an apartment building in northern Moscow last week, he made a gruesome discovery: chunks of human flesh.   >>

By Carl Schreck / Staff Writer
19 July 2006
A wedding reception in central Moscow turned bloody early Sunday morning when one of the guests shot two security guards at a local casino following an argument over a parking space, leaving one guard dead and the second seriously injured, police said.   >>

By Carl Schreck / Staff Writer
12 July 2006
It's a setup that all club-hopping expats should be aware of. You're sitting at the bar nursing a drink and minding your own business, when someone slips a drug into your glass and cleans out your pockets when you black out.   >>

By Carl Schreck / Staff Writer
05 July 2006
Police have arrested the man suspected of killing wealthy banker Ivan Kivelidi in 1995 by lacing his telephone with a toxic substance.   >>