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.
Unknown to the inmate, the “hit man” he was talking with was an undercover FBI agent
Robert Berger now faces up to four years in prison if convicted in the alleged scheme
The shipment was seized in New York because the weaves appear to be a product of forced child labor and imprisonment
An Oregon woman has been sentenced to nearly six years in prison for dousing her husband with gasoline and setting him on fire during an argument over weed killer
Man responded to Facebook alert seeking his arrest for robbery, other charges
Arturo Valenzuela, 23, had walked away during a work release program
Jose Gonzalez, 53, attempted to bring a sword inside of a cane through security as he entered the jail
Deputies: Man placed chewing tobacco outside county building for inmate
Arthur Benoit became angry when his dad wouldn’t get out of bed that morning and broke the older man’s wheelchair and cellphone
A man who killed a long-time acquaintance following a fight over $5 is now behind bars
An ex-convict who robbed a bank hoping he’d be sent back to prison told an Indiana judge he wanted to plead guilty only if he received the maximum 8-year sentence
Given four years for attempting to burn down a Crown Heights building in 2013
Police arrested a man suspected of robbing a bank in New Jersey after they say he stopped for a cup of coffee a block away
A convicted child molester has agreed to plead guilty to mailing a threatening letter from jail to President Barack Obama — albeit to the wrong address
Robert Van Winkle, a.k.a. Vanilla Ice, said the situation was a “misunderstanding” and has been “blown out of proportion”
Lawrence Peterson Jr. will now serve a life sentence on top of the 40- to 80-year term he had been serving for a violent robbery
Padge Victoria Windslowe is accused of killing a 20-year-old dancer from London during a procedure involving silicone and Krazy Glue
Israel Silva, 25, wore an orange jail jumpsuit and shackles when District Judge Steven Cranfill wed Silva and Ivy Koryne Smith, 19, of Powell in a Cody courtroom last week
Mass. man accused of breaking into a restaurant, munching on pizza and guzzling beer before making off with $150 has been sentenced to a year of probation
Parking lot was only place in area that fit his required 1,000 feet away from schools, parks, day care facilities and school bus stops
Darkvomit.com began selling the items this week in its “True Crime Museum & Prison Art Gallery”
A homeless man broke into a funeral home and had sex with a woman’s body
Anthony Bottom, now known as Jalil Muntaqim, filed a grievance with the Attica Correctional Facility over “lack of access to premium television channels”
Police say the boy’s mother, grandmother and aunt planned the ruse last week to scare him, because they believed he was too nice to people
Afton Elaine Burton wanted to marry Charles Manson so that she could gain possession of his corpse and place it on display
A Connecticut man has been sentenced to two years in prison for killing five cats belonging to his fiancee’s family
Surveillance video also captured the attack and the suspects driving away
The officers were later found naked and handcuffed
The Lincoln County Sheriff’s Office said Thursday the three wanted to scare the boy
“Lucky V.” described the jail as having a “club med feel” due to the logos on issued clothing
Sean Killion, 42, was shackled when he overpowered a female officer and ran off
Fla. man suspected of stealing a car took off on foot from a traffic stop and briefly eluded deputies while he grabbed a nap under a nearby trailer
Federal prosecutors say he sold the illegal substances online through his company, ACS Herbal Tea