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 publisher of a weekly newspaper in south Mississippi says he unwittingly gave a car ride to a convicted murderer who had just escaped from a state prison
A prison inmate serving a life term for two murders is running for a U.S. Senate seat in Minnesota. And it’s legal
The helicopter pilot who was forced to take part in the jailbreak of Redoine Faid has told of how he was taken by surprise, beaten with pistol butts and threatened
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
Police Chief Wayne Payne says 35-year-old Nathan Mark Hardy was arrested Saturday after allegedly being caught stuffing food into his cargo shorts
Walther Scovish was charged with burglary, criminal trespass, larceny, and attempted larceny
When the man was asked to turn his phone off, he did not and when the plane pulled up to the gate, El Paso authorities met the aircraft
Police say they had to use the stun gun on Michael Andes after he became combative and screamed at officers that they weren’t doing their job
The 100-foot banner read: “V. Vassilenko jailed 5+ yrs — no trial — is this legal?”
Residents said afterward that the suspect was seen running down the street yelling that it was the end of the world