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 find was documented in a medical journal as the cause of a stone formation in the inmate’s nose
Keisha Houser received special permission to have her wedding in jail while she remained incarcerated
Andrew Pleviak allegedly showed a fake memorandum in an attempt to release an inmate
A man faces domestic battery charges after assaulting a woman during a discussion about anger management classes
A California surgeon has been disciplined for removing a prisoner’s healthy kidney and leaving the diseased one intact
A woman who is recovering from serious burns says that her husband drenched her in gas and lit her on fire for dancing with another man at a party they both attended
Rodents came into contact with transformers on the courthouse roof
Wound up removing the toilet from its moorings to free the trapped limb
Man shot his mother because she “stole his diamonds and gave his father cancer”
CO Colleen Ellis, 48, was asked to take her belt off before walking through a metal detector
Never told anyone about woman’s death, using her Social Security benefits and food stamps
Man who claimed he was robbed at gunpoint, kidnapped and held against his will for three days actually had escaped from a halfway house
An attempt to use a McDonald’s Egg McMuffin to get drugs inside the Pinellas County Jail was foiled by detectives
Officers who helped her get back into her apartment found drug paraphernalia
A man is back behind bars after accidentally texting his probation officer while looking to buy marijuana
District Attorney’s office says rapper’s album promotes series of shootings that terrorized a neighborhood
Melissa Burton believes that Manson loves her daughter
Antonio Miranda Martinez, 36, was let out of a jail in Salinas on Thursday because of a paperwork error
Voyd A. Turner was arrested in the parking lot of Wal-Mart in Richomond for public intoxication and criminal trespass
What memorable booking photos can you think of?
Mass murderer Charles Manson has gotten a license to marry a 26-year-old woman who visits him in prison
Fresno police say 28-year-old Lamikka Lee attacked another woman outside the Fresno County Jail just before 8 p.m. Saturday
The man, his wife and his mistress were arrested in April 2012 in the city of Garanhuns and police say they have confessed to the crimes
Drunk dad accused daughter of cheating, threatened her with a gun
Deborah Delane Asher, 37, was arrested and charged with trafficking in a controlled substance, first degree and possession of methamphetamine
Terrence M. Thompson, 40, was sentenced on charges of third-degree assault
Sean Petrozzino is a person of interest in his parents’ murder
A man accused of wearing a zebra print dress while robbing a New Hampshire bank has been arrested
Woman informed deputies she thought she was parking in front of another bar
Official: “What was unusual was when the deputy spoke with the suspect’s mother, and she found out about the charges, she vowed to take care of it”
Deputies noticed Tiffanie Lizette Bass coming back from the bathroom with her head leaning to one side
Micah Dailey’s mug shot shows him sporting a green T-shirt with the Monopoly board game order to “Go Directly to Jail” stenciled on it
Wanted to get the child in trouble at school
