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.
Luis Clarke, 25, was caught when he tried to get into an Uber car he ordered through the delivery driver’s phone
Most COs will tell you they’ve seen it all. But what about the paranormal?
An armed robber serving life in prison staged a daring escape by creeping into a cart, piled with mounds of trash, to reach freedom
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
Suspect admitted to attacking because he was hungry and wanted pizza
Authorities say the customers who purchased the used enemas have been notified
Convicted the 31-year-old man on Thursday of smothering a woman to death
Found the girl in a child seat watching television
Authorities arrested 31-year-old twins Christopher and William Cormier and charged them with concealing a death
Police say he apparently wanted to be prosecuted federally so he could be taken to a prison in central Pennsylvania
Prisoners originally remade ‘Thriller’, which went viral
Some worry the government’s assertion could open up people who practice bondage, dominance, sadism and masochism to criminal charges for consensual acts
Prison officials say the identity of the false convict was discovered only when he’d been released on probation
The body of 28-year-old Johnny Lewis was found Wednesday morning in the driveway of a hillside home in the Los Feliz area near Hollywood
Allegedly contained human remains
She posted this comment to her Facebook page: “My dumb (expletive) got a DUI and hit a car LOL.”
Dawn Viens disappeared in 2009 and police identified her husband David aa‚¬a€? the chef at the former Thyme Café in Torrance, Calif. aa‚¬a€? as a prime suspect
From birds used as drug mules to the oldest convicted bank robber, here are some bizarre records
Police can’t say who the victim is or what gender the body is until they get autopsy results
Blasted the AC/DC song “Highway to Hell” and other loud music from her home, threw a frying pan
Man said that the prostitute took his money, but then changed the price
A man bought the contents of a storage unit at auction last week in Pensacola and made the gruesome discovery after being overpowered by a strange smell while sifting through furniture and boxes
Thomas Rogers is awaiting trial on 27 charges related to child pornography
Authorities say man stuck his foot out the driver’s side door as if he was exiting the car, but instead accelerated suddenly, crushing the foot between the car and a cinder block
Rapper confronted burglar and detained him until police arrived
Man was convicted of abducting, molesting and killing a 10-year-old boy
Woman has been charged with murder
Jacquetta Simmons was charged with two counts of felony assault but one of those was reduced last week to a misdemeanor