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.
Prosecutors say Christian Gulzow fatally stabbed 29-year-old Brian Lucero in the parking lot of a Denver restaurant
No trial date has been set for Austin Harrouff’s criminal charges
A Maine man has received a 10-year prison sentence for frightening a woman during a burglary and causing a fatal heart attack
Man is charged with animal cruelty after his 20-pound dog was found so intoxicated it couldn’t stand up
A rope ladder was lowered from the chopper and the murderer climbed aboard
Woman told police she had been taking a weight-loss product, had trouble sleeping for several days and felt an “evil” presence
Man had a history of violence and wanted to go back to prison, his brother said
Robert Young and Mark Rubinson were given two years of probation in connection with the death of 43-year-old Jeffrey Jarrett
Gerald Decker was driving early Feb. 19 when an officer noticed that Decker’s car didn’t have its lights on and flagged him down
Man charged with hacking a homeless man to death with an ax and eating some of his brain and an eyeball
Anthony Garcia pleaded guilty in the case in October, admitting he contaminated a sample of the yogurt he was handing out at a market
The 27-year-old told police he was aiming at the rodent during the Dec. 20 shooting, but the bullet went through the pantry and into the bathroom
The teens have been placed with the county children’s services agency
Surveillance cameras caught an officer repeatedly stealing colleagues’ food and drinks from the refrigerator in the station’s break room
Witnesses said the car drove away from the woman, turned around, rapidly accelerated and struck her as she was crossing an intersection
Mateen Johnson told police he expected to be arrested soon and was trying to win enough at blackjack to make bail
Amy Slanina pretended to be pregnant so infertile couples or, in some cases, female friends or lovers will shower her with attention, affection and sometimes money, clothes, food and shelter
Riverside County sheriff’s officials say when police responded to a 911 call Thursday, they found the girl in a car where she was allegedly left by her 40-year-old mother
Thirty-two-year-old Verdon Lamont Taylor was arrested Wednesday night after police say he stripped off his clothes in the parking lot of the Exton store and went inside
Neighbors called sheriff’s deputies when they heard cats wailing and screeching at the 36-year-old’s house
Matthew Townsend says he spent seven hours in jail after the dog got out and he was issued a $50 ticket
An inmate who makes stationery and license plates added the image of a pig to the state decal on their cruisers
Police say David Canterbury had a Star Wars light saber in each hand as he swung at three customers last Dec. at a Toys R Us store
Some of Michael Clair’s patients reported infections after he performed root canals on them
Prosecutors say the man filed the bogus returns from 2006 to 2010 while at various state prisons
Martin Batieni Kombate allegedly said he wasn’t leaving jail and was staying because he couldn’t find his wallet
After a bus ride home to Eugene on a state-paid ticket, police say Adam Ashe held up a bank and was back in custody three minutes later
Robert Lyons flew into a rage and attacked his 61-year-old mother after she refused to call a friend to obtain skybox tickets for him to an upcoming Lavigne concert
Michael Clair pleaded guilty to defrauding Medicaid of $130,000, assault and battery, illegally prescribing prescription drugs and witness intimidation charges
Police arrested the man after he kept playing a cowbell and shaking it in an officer’s face when he and other protesters were told to be quiet
It was the country’s first prison break in more than two decades
Kenneth Shong was allegedly working with associates outside the prison walls to operate a suspected diploma mill