Man tried to register taxi he stole

California - Authorities in Northern California say a man released from a hospital after a psychiatric evaluation stole a taxi and tried to register it at a Department of Motor Vehicles office. 26-year-old Jermaine Grosse was arrested on suspicion of auto theft and forgery...More

$450,000 in drugs found on man passed out in taxi

Illinois - A frustrated cabdriver unwittingly delivered a man carrying a bag that was allegedly filled with nearly a half-million dollars in drugs to officers at the Rogers Park District police station. The driver said he picked up a fare in the Lincoln Park neighborhood and took the man to an address in Rogers Park. The passenger, later identified by police as Joseph Andrew Hoffman, 25, chatted on his phone for about half the trip but was unconscious by the time they arrived at the destination...More