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
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
Jovanie Saldana, a transgender woman, spent the last 14 months incarcerated at Riverside Correctional Facility
Man says he’s a vampire and has been alive for more than 500 years
The patient claims the surgery was supposed to be a circumcision and he never authorized the amputation
Keemonta Peterson called 911 and the boy was rushed to a hospital last October after her botched effort left the infant bleeding uncontrollably and in intense pain
A thief who was released from a New York jail so she could get a heart transplant is back behind bars — possibly for good — after she was caught shoplifting again.
Parolee Marvin Lane Ussery claims he made his way back onto prison grounds because was “reminiscing”
Chaos erupted on JetBlue’s red-eye flight from Portland, Ore., to JFK yesterday when a drunk allegedly urinated on a sleeping 11-year-old girl
Michael Kevin Lallana was arrested in July 2010 and his DNA was later matched to the water bottle
Man was booked into jail on charges including child desertion and allowing a minor to drive
The phone system charges inmate accounts for calls but refunds the money if the call doesn’t go through
Investigators have publicized his mug shot to figure out who he is, but 100 tips have led nowhere
Witnesses told police the woman gave a 40-ounce bottle of beer to the boy and ordered him to chug it down
The warrant was for felony identity theft charges
Cops believe the parents were already dead when the teen used Facebook to invite friends to his house for a party Saturday night
Daniel Self says he suffers from sleep apnea and he ordered corrections officers not to resuscitate him if he stopped breathing
Anthony Garcia is accused of handing out tainted yogurt samples
Pogos Paul Sefilian, of Sandy, Utah, faces a federal charge of interference with a flight crew
Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio began issuing pink underwear to inmates more than 15 years ago to cut down on theft
Trooper: “Some of the plants were five feet tall”
Man kept 4-foot reptile to impress women, cops allegedly told
Man strapped 15 live lizards to his chest to get through customs at Los Angeles International Airport
Tyell Morton put a blow-up sex doll in a bathroom stall, causing officials to call a bomb squad
Kyle Richards says denying his request for erotic material subjects him to a “poor standard of living”
Woman was caught trying to sneak her common-law-husband out of a Mexican prison in a suitcase following a conjugal visit