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 officers, who were screaming at him to stop, grabbed the inmate’s upper body and placed him on a gurney after the incident
The corrections officer caught Paul Garrett Mercer with a cup of ramen noodles he had taken from the commissary without paying
The Person County Sheriff’s Office helped fulfill Ruth Bryant’s unusual wish: to celebrate her birthday in jail
There was disorder in the court when 30 bats flew inside an Arkansas courtroom during a trial
Authorities say Eddie Smith’s Facebook page on Jan. 20 boasted of having 16 warrants out for his arrest
Police eventually found the seller, who claimed he had gotten the ID from a friend of a friend
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Has been arrested a dozen times, and has been convicted multiple times for domestic violence
A man who led police on a brief chase drove himself right into the parking lot of the Toledo Correctional Institution
Authorities say the man used a dumbbell from a set of weights to smash his way into the stores and grab jewelry from display cases
Sheila Kearns showed the film, “The ABCs of Death,” during five periods of a Spanish class at East High School in Columbus in April 2013
Jeannie Jonas, 55, pleaded guilty to indecent exposure
Deputies noticed the running car embedded in a snowbank around 1:46 a.m. outside the jail
Andrew Rivera is charged with aggravated assault with a deadly weapon
Companies claim to help cut down on contraband, but music producers consider the CDs contraband
A Florida man’s crime was written all over his shirt
Ran when confronted while drinking a bottle of hand sanitizer
Joseph Mullen, 28, of Feasterville, was charged by an investigating grand jury with official oppression and harassment
‘Prison Didn’t Break Me. It Made Me.’
His movie “Blues Brothers” shot at the old Joliet Correctional Center in Illinois
Corey Matthews, 22, had to put the baby down so he could pull a knife on the homeowner
Stole the amount in quarters
Jeremey Michael Perry purchased a Whizzinator, a prosthetic penis that holds fake urine, for $120 in an attempt to pass a drug test at the Greene County Probation Office
A man is behind bars after running his truck into the Lawrence County Jail
Gun was later found in the trash by an inmate, who alerted jail officials
Jarred Matyjasik arrived to bail his friend out but was stopped in the parking lot when deputies smelled marijuana
Police detected odor of meth when they discovered the two in the closet
Andrew Lee Stitt dropped off a bag of bananas along with a greeting card at the Dickinson Police Department
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