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.
Both the bombs exploded and injured those who opened them, but neither victim was the man’s intended target
“It’s a proven fact that I will not tolerate foolishness,” Sheriff Burnis Wilkins said
The victim was rescued after she flagged down a detention officer in the jail parking lot
Inmates at the Barra da Grota prison used a mouse with bags of drugs tied to its tale to ferry the contraband between cells
A federal judge has rejected Malcolm Smith’s request to delay his seven-year sentence so he could attend a seminar on living behind bars
A deputy on duty at the time directed Castro to leave and turn himself in at the San Jose Police Department instead
Clodoaldo Antonio Felipe used a mask and a long dress to pretend he was an elderly woman in order to walk right out from the Coronel Odenir Guimaraes Prison in central Brazil
A New Mexico man who had been watching TV’s “The Walking Dead” told authorities he fatally beat his friend before he could become a zombie
Charles R. Cole was arrested Friday in the death of 76-year-old Betty Cole
Creepy incidents at these prisons and jails may indicate some inmates and officers never left
The Bucks County district attorney on Thursday charged 37-year-old Christopher Williams with criminal homicide and other counts for an attack on Donald Rush earlier this month
An inmate who wants to hang on to his hairstyle is seeking the approval of a local Cherokee tribe to certify him as a Native American
27-year-old Treasure Dawn Shockey, who had two warrants for her arrest, ran when police in Eugene tried to talk to her Saturday morning
Tony Irvin McKinley, 55, was arrested for intimidation, public intoxication and disorderly conduct Thursday
Judge Chris Cleaveley told Downes that he needed to respect authority figures
The five-page letter is currently priced at $225,000
Fifty-one-year-old Teresa Owens was arrested the following day after deputies searched the couple’s home
John Mogan, 28, and Ashley Duboe, 24, are charged with the August 24 robbery of Savings Bank in Ashville
Police in Carlsbad say officers had to squash a public disturbance at the fast-food restaurant after the customer began harassing employees over a mistake
Stephanie Marie Moore was arrested by Melbourne police early Saturday on the felony charge of trying to “possess, sell, molest marine turtle”
The inmates alleged that they were forced to remain naked while their clothes were washed
Memorabilia related to Boston gangster James “Whitey” Bulger is being peddled to coincide with the release of the new Johnny Depp movie on Bulger’s life
Here are ten stories of felines, bovines and even a stool pigeon or two who ran afoul of the police and ended up taking a vacation in the big house
Christopher John Smith, 38, was arrested Monday on probation violation charges
34-year-old Steven Felton, of Emmaus, was sentenced to 62 to 124 years on Monday
Sheriff Sam Crish says an investigation will be conducted on how that happened
Sheriff’s office believes Nickcole Dykema intentionally “booby trapped” her home by hiding blades in blankets, floors, her yard, and even pins and needles in handles
Now faces a second-degree assault charge as a juvenile
Stuart Horner, 35, has been in the high-security Strangeways jail for the last 27 years after shooting his uncle in the chest with a shotgun during a family feud in 2012
A man is charged with burglary after police say he returned to a Twin Falls, Idaho, home for his forgotten car keys and cellphone
Justices on Maine’s highest court are skeptical about an appeal by a man who was stripped of his right to a lawyer because he couldn’t get along with five earlier ones
