Al Capone earned $105m per year from alcohol and rackets during the Prohibition era. Today, this would be equivalent to $1.4b per year.
7
A surprise inspection of a men’s prison in Acapulco unearthed 100 plasma TVs, 2 sacks of marijuana, 2 peacocks, 100 cockerels… and 25 women.
37
Anthony Greco, aged 18, became the first person arrested for spim (unsolicited instant messages) on February 21,2005.
11
In 2010, police in Belfast, Northern Ireland, used ice cream van music to calm angry teen rioters - and it worked!
28
Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar made so much money, he spent over $2,500 every month just on rubber bands to bundle up his stacks of cash.
23