Weird News
The Weird News topic gives corrections officers a place to get articles covering the bizarre, including strange crimes, wacky courtroom appearances, and oddball encounters COs have on a daily basis. The job is deadly serious, but there are dozens of moments in corrections that leave officers shaking their heads and laughing as they make their rounds.
The man was in court to respond to numerous charges, including second-degree assault
The man told authorities that he thought the “other half of his keys” was in one of the vehicles
His sister, Wanda Palmer, identified him as her attacker upon awakening
State police say a 78-year-old nun was caught shoplifting $23 worth of coffee, snacks and toiletries
Corrections officer who was serving a sentence for attempting to sexually assault inmates died just one week into his sentence
A felon offered a musical apology before being sentenced to up to 17 years in prison
After 19 years in prison, Darryl Hunt was exonerated in February 2004
State records list him as a corrections officer I in 2014
The comedian was found ‘lying on the ground with his hands behind his back ready to go to jail’
The sheriff declined to release the name of the suspended deputy
Inmates are worried about contaminants in the other mothers’ milk
The man said he ate his roommate’s brain as part of a ‘mutual agreement’
Riot left 49 inmates dead and 11 others injured
Steven Pratt was 15 when he shot and killed his next-door neighbor
Police later confiscated the dollar bill, a jacket and a revolver as evidence
Police say Eldon Gale Samuel III showed no remorse
The man’s attorney said the case ‘can’t be much worse’
The display featured a sharp-toothed, ghoulish figure in the manger where baby Jesus would be
Jamaican officials say the severed head of a murder suspect who escaped from jail has been found along railroad tracks in a city west of the capital
Man barred from testifying at his murder trial after asking jurors to “vote not guilty” has been sentenced to life in prison
TV personality Mike Rowe of ‘Dirty Jobs’ fired back at the politician
They also learned the man sought help from a Ku Klux Klan grand wizard who was an FBI informant
The clinic says the cause of death in 1996 was a massive head injury
If convicted, the woman faces a maximum sentence of more than a year in prison
A man refused to share his hot dogs, then things turned violent
Virginia authorities say they have noticed a rise in people trying to steal underwear in order to earn money to buy drugs
Burglary suspect who was held at gunpoint by two of his victims is back in jail after allegedly committing another robbery
Jury rejected woman’s argument that she was in the midst of a seizure and didn’t know what she was doing
Kevin Jaramillo is accused of using a squirt gun full of his semen to spray children
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