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.
Jeron Combs, a convicted murderer, cooks meals on a makeshift grill he created with his metal bed and a hot plate
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
Arrested in 1999 for on a charge of sexually battering a 9-year-old boy
Robert Vitale is the third and last ACI employee to retire amid an investigation following a séance that took place in February in the office of then-deputy director David McCauley
“I’ve made loads of money in the stock market, for a whole bunch of people”
Wayne’s photo is the default for mugshots at the station
Tossed a plugged-in radio alarm clock into a motel bathtub while her boyfriend was in it
Less than an hour after she was released on Thanksgiving, Shaday Gamble was back behind bars
Tried to pass the boxes off as toy packages
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
