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.
Sixty-two-year-old Herbert Rodgers had been serving a 30- to 70-year prison sentence in Pennsylvania and died Monday
Officer John Moore was sitting in his vehicle eating a biscuit in the parking lot when Natasha Dawn Mencia tried to get in the passenger side
Lisa Harding was also ordered to pay back money taken during a third bank robbery, even though that charge was dismissed under a plea agreement
Cpl. reprimanded after shocking female officer in behind
Man abused by assistant Scoutmaster to receive $1.4 million
Jesse Alva, a 21-year veteran, fired in the direction of a repo man who was towing his truck
Harry Jackson broke out of jail, then returned after stealing 14 packs of cigarettes
A British couple was convicted of kissing in a restaurant
Letter detailed instructions on how to smuggle drugs
The chase started after a minor traffic violation
Bruce Davidson killed his friend in a drug-fueled basement sex party
Philadelphia removed 21 mistreated dogs and cats from Virginia Wetzel’s house
Matthew Eaton on Dr. Phil: ‘I was shoplifting. I don’t deny that at all.’
Judge says families must quit relying on faith, ‘graveyard’ full of children have already died unnecessarily
Originally arrested for public intoxication, 31-year-old now faces charges of third degree assault on a police officer
Rianne Theriault-Odom doused a bikini dancer with gasoline and set her on fire at a club
Deputies are having to turn Douglas Rank’s patients away at the gate
Charles Wright locked himself in a cell and started firing
Wife attempted to run over an old flame of the groom
Richard Peterson gets 3 days in jail for doing show about one night stand with stripper
Amy Teresa Ricks pleaded guilty to second-degree felony aggravated assault on Tuesday
57-year-old Calif. probationer was somehow misplaced when staff went home for long weekend
The 18-year-old was intoxicated at a house party in Western NY
She drove to Flagler County jail and demanded to see specific inmate
Tanya Nelson found guilty of murdering a Vietnamese fortuneteller and her daughter
18-year-old allegedly offered 2 boys several dollars to urinate in a cup