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
A former Md. resident who is detained at Guantanamo Bay may have a pet
Man can sue police because it’s not illegal to kill the backyard animals
Cops say they arrested 24-year-old Justin Kryzanowski on Wednesday after being contacted by dispatchers who told them a conversation about narcotics could be heard over an open line
A woman disguised in scrubs was caught trying to steal a newborn girl from a Southern California hospital in a tote bag after sensors attached to the baby alerted employees
A dispatcher said at least once, the caller asked if someone could send him a ride so he could buy beer
A Pittsburgh man allegedly broke into a woman’s apartment while drunk and stole a potato peeler, a kitchen knife and a small dog
Man spent more than a year on the run after switching identities at the Wayne County jail
Woman has been arrested for trying to sneak into a county jail and telling authorities to arrest her
Holmes reportedly asked a jailhouse worker ‘Did you see the movie?’ and nearly got slapped for it
Man refused to leave the jail after authorities wouldn’t give him a ride to a motel
The Justice Ministry on Tuesday ordered the destruction of a 24-foot long pool
Animal was shot with a tranquilizer gun
Levy Izhak Rosenbaum, and Israeli native who resides in Brooklyn, pleaded guilty in October to brokering three illegal kidney transplants
Police arrested the husband of a $1 million lottery winner
Cincinnati police say a group of girls who shoplifted snacks from a convenience store triggered a police chase that ended when their car crashed into a utility pole
The woman allegedly “embraced the officer from behind, causing the holstered weapon to accidently discharge”
Woman insisted she was not the woman police wanted for throwing hot water on a man
An inmate allegedly wearing an orange-and-white striped uniform tried to hail a taxi to escape from a hospital
Maricopa County sheriff’s deputies said they were investigating whether Michael Marin put something in his mouth that led to his death after the verdict
The 22-year-old is charged with felony cruelty to a non-livestock animal
Lab tests detected only marijuana in the system of a Florida man shot while chewing on another man’s face
A Utah woman has filed a formal complaint against a juvenile court judge who told her that he would reduce her 13-year-old daughter’s sentence if she would cut off the girl’s ponytail in court
The teen shot and nearly killed an intruder who broke into his Phoenix home and pulled a gun on him
Samantha Tomasini was arrested in June 2010 after witnesses reported that she and her boyfriend Patrick Fousek were offering their 8-month-old daughter for $25
A worker handing out food samples at a Georgia Walmart was taken into custody after police say she pushed a co-worker handing out taste tests into a fruit cooler
“Facecrook” features the names, photos and last locations of fugitives wanted by the Bergen County Sheriff’s Office
The 22-year-old model says police didn’t give her clothes to put on until about 20 minutes after her arrest
Michael Baker, of Holbrook, was arraigned Monday on charges including assault and battery with a dangerous weapon
A Baltimore grand jury on Thursday indicted him on the more serious charges of first- and second-degree attempted murder, first- and second-degree assault and a weapons offense
Allentown police say Yardley Joy Frantz was promptly arrested Friday after witnesses spotted her “ZOMBIE” license plate