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.
A self-styled prophet who helped lead a Utah doomsday cult that believed in polygamy pleaded guilty to sodomy and child bigamy charges
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
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
The “watchgator” was found protecting nearly 2,300 illegal pot plants
59-year-old Loewen B. Craft was wearing a gray wig and makeup to make her look older when she arrived this week at a credit union branch in Ferndale, Wash.
25-year-old Stephen Supers was pulled over early Wednesday and failed a series of sobriety tests after drinking in front of an officer
The robber made off with booze in cigarettes, but his pants fell off in the process, revealing bright red shorts
Rival pizza owner faces charges of disorderly conduct, harassment and animal cruelty
Prosecutors said the man collected Social Security numbers from inmates and recruited others to collect the numbers for him
Some collectors are willing to pay tens to hundreds of dollars for artifacts from imprisoned killers
Woman woke up her roommate early last Sunday and accused her of eating her Thin Mints
Defendant’s lawyer says his client told police the cat “needed a Sunday bath” because it “got into some kitchen spices”
Defendant’s lawyer says his client told police the cat “needed a Sunday bath” because it “got into some kitchen spices”
The man had been smoking hallucinogenic mushrooms before the police arrived on scene
During a traffic stop, dog grabbed owner’s drug-filled sock and flung it out the window
Six matches, a flint, a syringe, some lip balm, and an unused condom among the smuggled items
Residents found hot sauce, mustard, ketchup and spices in burgled home
Police say the man was very drunk at a party where he was being teased about his flatulence
Man allegedly killed horses because his wife was having an affair with stable owner
Inmate complained that staff failed to follow proper procedures on searching and testing for drugs
The nineteen-year-old accepted a plea agreement Friday on charges of rape, criminal solicitation of murder and other counts
Robert Gleason Jr. had said he would kill again if not given the death penalty for murdering his cellmate
Man was declared legally dead in Mississippi in 1994
The Sandusky Register reports that the woman’s car got stuck in a snowbank near the sign when she stopped early Monday
The 20-year-old Montgomery man apparently got into the ceiling above his cell then crawled about 25 feet and hid on top of ventilation ductwork
The gray structure, which took about 30 hours to build, is made of plywood and wallboard and sits in a vacant lot
19-year-old Demrick McCloud had been charged with leading other teens to beat a high school student and threaten him with a gun