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.
The inmate was apparently complaining about his attorneys and was ordered to be silent multiple times
Native American inmates and defendants in Oklahoma have already begun appealing their convictions or asking for their cases to be dismissed on the same jurisdictional grounds
Sheriff’s officials said the inmate slipped out of his handcuffs, shattered the passenger-side window and climbed atop the patrol car
Man was jailed on a $25,000 bond at the Tippecanoe County Jail
A judge ordered him held on $1 million bond
Investigators said that 53-year-old Michael Fuller tried to buy a vacuum cleaner, a microwave oven and other items
Officials say 25-year-old Ryan Jarvis is charged with stealing the $3,200 ring from a Zales jewelry store
Prosecutors are reviewing the case to determine whether to charge the man
Authorities believe the Czech was a courier for a criminal organization that smuggles exotic species whose exports are banned
The clerk was on high alert because the store had already been robbed once recently
Investigators say the duo didn’t realize one of them had accidentally pocket-dialed 911
Now only relatives will be allowed to visit inmates
The parents asked Paul Kim to discipline their son after finding a lighter in his possession
The two young suspects could be charged with armed robbery because one of the children thought the gun was real
Lauretta Cheek, 42, of Greensboro was arrested Wednesday and charged with one misdemeanor count of practicing medicine without a license
The claims included fake fires and gunshots.
Cesar Sanchez, 37, is serving a 7-year sentence for burglary
The man was treated at a hospital for injuries in the penis area and released
A fugitive from Florida tried to open a multimillion-dollar bank account
Man reluctant to face trial on child sex abuse charges solicited two of his fellow inmates to kill the people who put him in jail
Patrick Fousek and Samantha Tomasini were arrested in June 2010 after witnesses told Salinas police that they were offering their 8-month-old daughter for $25
Lawyer: “They take off their tops and let the guys touch them”
Authorities say a bowl used by customers to soak their nails was thrown during the brawl and hit a 17-year-old customer waiting to have her nails done, knocking out two of her teeth
Orange County deputies recommended to the state attorney that Tyrell Staffine, the inmate accused of kissing the teen, be charged with assault or battery
Sheriff Bill Bivens says the disturbance started when the inmates in two of the cells were denied their evening meal because they refused to put their clothes on before being served
Inmate Jafar Torkpour added sugar to a note telling a woman he was still “sweet” for her
Just 69 inmates remain awaiting transfers
Man admits throwing a heavy glass that shattered during a bar fight and fatally sliced the neck of a bystander from New York
A surprise search at an Acapulco prison has netted two peacocks, 100 fighting cocks, 19 prostitutes and two sacks filled with marijuana
Police arrested him on a weapons charge and allegedly for insulting police who came to arrest his friend on Halloween
Prosecutors say 27-year-old Jaime Alvarado told Salt Lake City police and immigration officials in 2010 that his name was Saul Quiroz and he had come to the U.S. illegally from Mexico
Four Philadelphia men are being held on $150,000 bail after a 13-year-old boy was robbed over the weekend