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 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
Woman forgot to pay for her snack while shopping
According to the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration state troopers with the help of a drug-sniffing dog discovered 104 brick-sized objects of cocaine Friday
Authorities say she used a cell phone to send the photos to a man to whom she was trying to sell the girl’s virginity for $10,000
Officials are investigating the person who allowed the alcohol into the facility
An autopsy showed 42-year-old Elena Caro died April 9 from an allergic reaction to anesthesia
Police say officers were waved down in June by a neighbor who complained that a woman was feeding children beer at a playground
Officers who arrived at the home say they could hear the man shouting: “You tried to cut my head off. You’re going to jail”
Joseph Son , 40, wore a bowler hat and played one of Dr. Evil’s henchmen, named Random Task, in 1997’s “Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery”
Police officers arrested the 23-year-old man who calls himself Phoenix Jones early Sunday after he was accused of assaulting several people with pepper spray
City officials say the spill came from the Adams County Jail because inmates were stuffing things in toilets
Omaima Aree Nelson is seeking early release from her 27-years-to-life sentence for murdering William E. Nelson over Thanksgiving weekend in 1991
The 22-year-old inmate heard her cries and jumped on the dog, holding it down until the staff could subdue it
Police think murder suspects were involved in a vampire cult
Michael Robert Wyatt faces misdemeanor harassment charges after two women claimed he said he wanted to suck their toes
The city judge will either let misdemenor offenders work off their sentences in jail and pay a fine or go to church every Sunday for a year
List includes efforts to give haircuts to elderly
The two men face charges of abusing a corpse, identity theft and criminal impersonation
Gregory Dale Brockman, 33, was serving a three-year sentence for burglary in January 2010 when he wrote letters to the Secret Service detailing his plans.
The initial background check revealed the warrant for his arrest
Buena Park Police Cpl. Andy Luong says the man lost “a pretty good chunk” of skin and hair on his face
Police say a man dressed in a Gumby costume and an accomplice went into a 7-Eleven in Rancho Penasquitos on Labor Day and told the clerk it was a robbery
Man could face up to six years in prison if convicted
Court records show 44-year-old Philip Conran pleaded guilty to risk of injury to a child last week