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.
Inmates housed in an aging lockup flooded a Kentucky police chief’s office with sewage by flushing jumpsuits and shredded bedding down the toilets
Death row inmate Robert Van Hook also was “troubled by increasing questions about his own sexual identity,” his federal public defenders said
Lakeland’s Food Technology program — one of 11 like it around the state that teach inmates the ins and outs of food service — has been a quiet success story
Woman technically has no fixed address
Kimberly Betty Prestby was allegedly being booked into the jail when she became uncontrollable and bit a correctional officer
The item — a rubber glove, according to Reilly — was found to contain nine pills, later identified by medical staff as five Xanax, an anti-anxiety drug, and four Suboxone, used for treatment of addictions
Boat had capsized near the state prison
Man gouged out his eyes while in Miami-Dade County jail
Sheriff Joe Arpaio allows online users to browse through the photos and then vote on their favorites
Erin Sullivan alleges the dog violated his civil rights and used excessive force to capture him after he ran from officers
Woman asked for a selection of lobsters from the seafood clerk and left the store without paying
Sheriff said Monday that a man and woman approached the girls Saturday and the man snatched the money jar from a 13-year-old girl
Prosecutor had worked to get him lesser sentence
The t-shirt displayed a picture of the suspect with the slogan: “Making money is my thang”
The woman showed up in court with a phony doctor’s note
A police report says 25-year-old Ryan James Stephens was charged with teasing a police dog in the Cincinnati suburb of Mason
The fight broke out late Friday when the 74-year-old man said his kittens were being harassed by his neighbor’s dog
Man saw robber pointing a gun at the owner of a convenience store and acted without thinking
The teens were among a group of 20 who were rounded up after neighbors complained about a loud house party early Saturday
A Mississippi man allegedly shot his neighbor who, he claimed, allowed his dog to defecate in his yard
The Beacon-News in Aurora says Friday that some 2,500 ducks took flight this week from the Yorkville Citizens Police Academy
Edward T. Kendrick called himself to the witness stand and began asking -- then answering -- his own questions
Officers had to restrain 28-year-old Angela Davito around 9:30 p.m. Saturday after she became disorderly
27-year-old Karin Mackaliunas was detained last weekend following a crash
Louis Scala is accused of coming up with the “inventive” method of selling the pills during his regular rounds in his Lickety Split ice cream truck,
49-year-old Nathan Wayne Pugh of Sachse was sentenced to eight years for trying to hold up a Dallas bank
State police charged Melanie Houtz with putting one or two tablespoons of bleach in her husband’s vodka bottle
Wolfgang Rust and Bobby Conn filed a federal lawsuit in 2008 to force prison officials to recognize Theodish Belief
Police say Giancarlo Sabatini went into hiding in 2000, shortly after being given a 3-year, 8-month prison sentence in a cocaine trafficking case
Richard Blaylock, 37, had only nine days of a 180-day sentence left