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.
Inmate Ricky Dubose, one of two inmates accused of slipping out of handcuffs and killing two COs, was found with a makeshift key stashed in his hair
Graig Burrier pleaded guilty to sexual battery and got probation for attacking a woman, insisting he had to touch her belly button to pledge a fraternity
The CO said he initially asked Jean Paul Ungureanu to remove the sign, but he “babbled incomprehensibly”
Police arrested the climber at the top of the 58 story building
Hadley Jons posted that defendant was guilty before trial ended
La. minister was accidently placed behind bars for nearly 8 hours
Scott Lackey, of Pa., threw a television remote control at his 8-year-old son’s head
Kayd Thorp, 24, escaped from police Tuesday afternoon at the Brisbane airport
Says she uses gin-soaked raisins to treat her arthritis
An 85-year-old man was arrested for trying to smuggle pot to his grandson in prison
Welfare recipients would get employment training and take “personal hygiene” lessons from prison dorm homes
A Calif. security guard has been suspended for excessive force on a deaf suspect who couldn’t hear alarm
Police say the boy was hurt badly enough to be treated for a “visible injury”
Nichols didn’t support his claims that the prison’s food amounts to cruel and unusual punishment
A Texas resident called Florida’s abuse hot line after seeing the picture online
Police found more than 3 grams of crack cocaine during a search after the outburst
The woman was hit but survived
He was rushed to the E.R. and briefly hospitalized
Man also charged in a similar incident at a Michaels craft store in Gaithersburg
Judge Leonard Zito said he had never gotten such a request before
When he arrived at the prison an inmate opened the front door to let him in
39-year-old Curtis Scott was sentenced to 64 years
He was stuck in a chimney for over 6 hours
The 13-year-old boy escaped
Suspect hitch-hiked, but was kicked out when he alledgely lit a crack pipe inside the vehicle
Yolanda Beck admitted to smoking the drugs on the day of the incident and left the wrappers behind
Suspect robbed the bank at gunpoint, using a toy BB gun he had shoplifted
Ronald Charles Dallas, of South Salt Lake, was ordered not to contact his wife
The Wash. man police dubbed the “Santa Claus burglar” has received his sentence
Police said the man punched and dented the hood of a car before punching the man he tried to hug
Police say he reached into the arrangement, pulled out a threatening note and handed it to a tell
Police said the woman pretended to call her sergeant