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.
During a second scan, the assistant jail commander noticed the object in the arrestee had moved
Tureygua Inaru tried to get other inmates to kill her family members and a prosecutor
Desmen Ramsey thought he was leaving a voicemail with a hitman, but had mistakenly called a dumpster rental company
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
James Staples was placed in a mental health unit at the Maine State Prison, where he blinded himself, after allegedly punching a woman at a psychiatric hospital
William Lewis spent 40 years on the lam after escaping from a Maryland jail in 1970
It took nearly three months for lab test results, which were negative for cocaine
The suspect was arrested on a fifth-degree controlled substance warrant
Police said the marijuana smell at the party was so strong that you could smell it while driving by
Police say the man jumped as he was being taken in by state parole officers for a violation
The commissioners won’t have to undergo criminal background checks either
