What Is a Paper Route Crime? The Hidden World of Newspaper Theft and Fraud
The first time a delivery truck vanished overnight in 1987, the *Chicago Tribune* assumed it was mechanical failure. Then came the missing pallets—dozens of them—stolen from loading docks in broad daylight. By the time investigators pieced together the operation, they’d uncovered one of the largest paper route crime schemes in U.S. history: a syndicate of […]