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.
Rapper DMX’s attorney pulled an unusual move in court in hopes of convincing a judge to be lenient on the rapper
The prison identification card of Boston gangster James “Whitey” Bulger has sold at auction for more than $11,000
A group of inmates is tending to 200 roosters at an Arkansas sheriff’s office pending their use as evidence against 137 people arrested at a cockfight
The inmate, who fled on Christmas Eve, was serving a six year sentence on drug and weapons convictions
The girls, ages 10 and 11, found the chocolate chip cookie in a baggie when they came home from school
William Joseph Boldt, 38, of St. Paul was released from state prison less than a day before the robbery
Regulations allow officers to wear beards for certain medical conditions, but not for religious purposes
The man’s mother is incarcerated for
The alpaca was valued at $8,000.
Yolanda Lugo Jimenez is expected to serve prison time before being deported to Mexico.
City Council had planned to post the mug shots of repeat DUI offenders
The Wasilla man has hepatitis C, an infectious disease that can cause liver damage
A councilman in Huntington Beach wants mug shots posted for repeat offenders, an idea that’s raising the hackles of privacy advocates
The video will not be released because it is considered evidence
Man has been charged with burglary and assault after being fended off by a baby sitter, a broom, and a small dog
Man plotted with others to rob wife
The government says John “Sonny” Franzese’s true legacy is something more akin to “Goodfellas.”
The colony of feral cats trigger false alarms by crossing over the fence at the Utah State Prison in Draper
Rain of cash would have required modest payment to genies
Alesha Abernathy, was killed in the July 21 crash that involved a dispute with another woman over the affections of a prison inmate
Authorities sent the boy to Alameda County Juvenile Hall in San Leandro. He was expected to appear in court Monday
Man was arrested in September 2009 while trying to flee from a New Jersey state trooper on the Garden State Parkway
The robber got his nickname from earlier asking a teller for all the $20s, $40s and $60s
Warned that a lot of “rounds” would be going off and to stay indoors
Boy is in juvenile custody after telling a neighbor he had shot and killed his mother
Man chewed through masking tape for two hours to free himself after two men bound him to a chair and robbed his house
A Michigan man who hacked into his wife’s email account could face a prison sentence
The past year saw a breast milk assault, a dog taped to a fridge, a melon full of drugs, a naked mailman and much, much more weird news
19-year-old thief ditched the stolen television when it proved too big for his Lexus
Descendants of Old West lawman Pat Garrett and New Mexico Territorial Gov. Lew Wallace are outraged that Gov. Bill Richardson is considering a pardon for Billy the Kid
The sing-off will be videotaped and shown to the whole inmate population on Christmas Day