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.
Officers removed three syringes from the man’s rectum during a search
A sheriff is turning himself in for a night in jail to learn more about prisoners’ complaints on living conditions
The officer tested above the DOC’s legal limit for morphine in 2016 after eating a poppy seed bagel before a drug test
Was about to be released and had nowhere to go
Paraphrased statement from investigator caused defense attorney to drop motion to dismiss charges
Report said the dog, named Thor, bit the inmate in the face, “biting off his left nostril”
Osvaldo Quiroz-Lopez is charged with endangering the welfare of a child
“Jail food may get a bad rap ... but jail EMPLOYEE food is off the chain”
It’s the kind of case even veteran law enforcement officers shake their heads and say “just when you think you’ve heard it all...”
5 inmates tied bedsheets to their cell door to prevent deputies from entering and issued ultimatums for about two hours
New charges say that while in jail, she groomed fellow female inmates to become prostitutes, lining up her former boyfriend to bail them out
Woman laced his food with sleeping pills, then tied him to a bed, severed his penis and put it in the garbage disposal
X-rays showed 14-karat white-gold ring with princess-cut diamonds inside him
Raymond Voet has a posted policy stating that electronic devices causing a disturbance during court sessions will result in the owner being cited with contempt
CO allegedly beat inmate for removing fake eyelashes and braids too slowly during processing
Accused of shoving a 2-year-old
Killed ex-husband by dousing him with scalding water after she believed he was seeing another woman
Greenwood police say 48-year-old Michelle Thomas called them Monday night and said she grabbed a knife and stabbed her boyfriend after he hit her
Jury deliberated for less than 15 minutes before convicting him of first degree murder
Violation of restraining order
Johnson County sheriff posed as hit man during phone calls with suspect
Officer was reportedly drunk when the incident occurred
On Wednesday night, the caller told KOMO, “I just killed my wife ... I want you to put it on your Facebook”
Earlier proceedings ended in a mistrial after victim’s $3,000 prosthetic blue eye popped out as he was testifying
Inmate wants his attempted murder conviction overturned due to stress suffered after stabbing someone
One of the largest prisoner civil rights payouts in U.S. history
Prosthetic eye popped out while man was giving testimony
Corrections officers “said that they would not accept Lloyd because he was ‘too drunk’”
Assaulted a corrections officer, then kidnapped a woman and her baby at knifepoint
Prosecutors charged Abner Canda, 58, on Tuesday with custodial misconduct
Robert Schiavelli was slapped with two summonses for “disturbing the peace”
Correction officials initially confirmed he only tried, but failed to move inmates within the facility