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.
No evidence was found that a twin exists
By the time officials realized the check from the “County of Voulisa” deposited by Ryan Athey was fake, Athey had already spent all the $350.24 in commissary purchases
Taylor Fender, 23, was part of an inmate crew from Putnam Corrections Institute
The film is a look at Glen Rogers, a carnival worker whom Florida jurors convicted in 1997 of killing a woman in a Tampa motel room
Drawing credited to man convicted of killing 11 women posted online
Had pictures of Abraham Lincoln on them, rather than Benjamin Franklin
The first plastic barrel was found on the shore of Lake Hartwell on Wednesday with a woman’s body inside
Recognized the man as a former fellow inmate
Chased her husband through a parking lot, circled him as hid behind a light pole, struck him and pinned him under the vehicle
Creative, and sometimes controversial, sentences handed out by judges to publicly shame offenders
Keith Hinds was charged on Friday with larceny, possession of less than half an ounce of marijuana, possession of drug paraphernalia and other drug charges
She arrived bundled up against the 34-degree cold, puffing a cigarette, wearing head phones and avoiding comment as passing vehicles honked
The 45-year-old car audio business owner remained in the San Luis Obispo County jail Thursday with bail at $1.1 million
Mom had to call 911 to finally break them up
Lags have fired off a string of letters to prison bosses demanding action after putting up with the problem for 16 months
He was previously in jail as the suspected get away driver in a botched robbery that left two people shot
Walked out of the store with $350 in lobsters
Required to register as a sex offender and ordered to pay $27,411 in restitution
Says that she owns a cleaning business and sometimes enters homes, cleans them and leaves a bill
Officers were called after children in the town of Royton in northwest England reported finding sachets of white powder in their Halloween bags
Shanellia Birdow says she does not know why Derrick Birdow attacked the minister Monday
The suspect, who police subdued by using a Taser, died a short time after being taken into custody
Results from lab on exhumed body show no link to mother, says attorney; orthodontist stands by his forensic examination and conclusion
Samuel Cutrufelli filed the suit claiming 90-year-old Jay Leone negligently shot him
Investigators say suspect left bank but returned when he found he hadn’t been given $20,000
Two clerks grabbed the suspect and wrestled him back into the store
One housemate attacked another after the locks were changed
Woman was found by an officer apparently asleep and bound with rope in her car
After police discovered the pills, he reportedly exclaimed: ‘Oh, wait, these aren’t my pants!’
It’s unclear how the man ended up inside a cooking device called a “steamer machine”
Federal appeals court rejects inmate’s claim of a First Amendment right to receive printouts of Facebook pages through the U.S. mail
Twenty-four-year-old Eric Cuellar and 24-year-old Justin Teixeira were jailed Friday afternoon on suspicion of conspiracy and willful malicious killing of wildlife