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.
After spending 568 days and 17 hours in jail, the man stole a Ford Crown Victoria corrections vehicle from the parking lot, Morgan County Sheriff’s Office said
When the suspect was questioned, he told the officers that he stole the truck only because he had just gotten out of prison and needed a means of transportation home
Court records say Billy Partington misrepresented himself and never corrected corrections’ officers when his picture was compared to his brother during the release procedure
According to prosecutors, 26-year-old Kendell Rashad Bowden stole credit card information and accidentally texted his probation officer the victim’s information
According to the lawsuit, 27-year-old Marques Davis pleaded for help as his symptoms worsened
Authorities say 40-year-old Charlotte Carman took $180 from her ex-boyfriend after stabbing him and used part of the stolen funds to pay for the tattoo
The inmates visited their girlfriends, smoked marijuana and then walked back to the jail
The inmates had their request to marry consistently denied because corrections officials are unwilling to transport either of them to the other’s prison for a wedding ceremony, or allow them to marry via video
Carlos Rafael pleaded guilty in March to false labeling and fish identification and tax evasion, among other charges
A U.S. fishing magnate known as “The Codfather” pleaded guilty to evading fishing quotas and smuggling money to Portugal
Davontae Sanford filed a lawsuit last week against the city and two officers involved in his case seeking punitive and compensatory damages
After Casey McCary passed the balloons, he ate the evidence again
After Amika Witt was taken to the McLean County jail, a female CO found a loaded handgun inside the suspect’s body
Prosecutors say he also lived in Mississippi and Tennessee under his assumed name, holding jobs, getting drivers’ licenses, and even getting married and divorced
The trash collector unknowingly picked up the felon and was activating the blade when he heard shouting
Eric Judkins was arrested without incident, as was another man wanted on a probation violation
Troy Mason used his brother’s name to avoid returning to prison for a parole violation on a felony burglary conviction
The prison north of New York City once had hundreds of resident felines freely roaming its buildings and grounds. Today, fewer than a dozen remain
Eric Judkins was an inmate at a halfway house. He failed to return to the facility on Monday night
Martin Duram’s ex-wife, Christina Keller, has said that after the slaying, the pet parrot, Bud, repeated “don’t (expletive) shoot” in Martin Duram’s voice
Just after midnight on April 2, 1992, Rhonda Sue Warford left her home in Louisville and never returned. Authorities found her body three days later
A South Dakota man accused of sitting on a woman and slicing off her nipples with a pair of scissors has pleaded guilty
Anthony Novellino stabbed his ex-wife 84 times 11 days after their divorce was finalized in 2010
A CO in a control room thought he was opening the cell, but the number released a door to the outside
Sheriff James Underwood says prisoners used peanut butter to change the numbers above a door and trick a new employee into opening another door that led outside
Bradley Andrew Kilpatrick was being held on marijuana and drug paraphernalia charges when he and 11 others fled
Phyllistone Termine was writing a list that included “buy 3 phones, 1 clean 2 dirty’s” and reminders to buy credit card information from the “dark web”
The man told the responding deputy that someone entered his car and took $50 and about a quarter ounce of cocaine
Prosecutors say the two falsely told a woman that if she paid $5K, a lawmaker could get her relative out of prison early
The 63-year-old woman said Revantae Williams asked if he could hide in her backyard
Officials have dropped all sanctions imposed on an Iowa inmate for his role in an alleged 2009 gang rape that he says never happened
Thomas Knuff allegedly stabbed the couple to death in May, weeks after his release from prison
The two say they talk daily to bolster the other’s sobriety
