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.
Before catching a ride to Tennessee, the man returned the van and the key he had found in it
The Nevada inmate exited a jail van at an intersection and slipped and slid his way back into custody
“Only in South Florida can you have a yacht on shore from a hurricane with the owner of the yacht incarcerated.”
James Robert Young Jr. had been out on parole for less than 10 months when he was fatally wounded after breaking into a woman’s home
Bobby Cutts Jr. was sentenced to life in prison in 2008 for the murder of Jessie Davis and their unborn daughter
The man tried to strangle his wife after he woke up from a dream in which she was cheating on him
Lawrence John Ripple’s public defenders cited Ripple’s health issues, remorse and unlikeliness to re-offend as justification
Attorneys for Richard Anthony Jones uncovered a lookalike possible suspect for the robbery for which Jones was incarcerated
Investigators found hydrocodone, meth and marijuana wrapped inside a burrito
A federal inmate and his fiancee ran a taxi service, ferrying inmates to restaurants, hotels and homes, and returning them to the prison for a fee
Nicholas D. Kean, who testified that John Barnett once showed him a gun, ended a text message to Barnett with the words, “this switchblade goin thru your kidney”
The bill is aimed in part at Bristol County Sheriff Thomas Hodgson, who has offered to send inmates to the U.S.-Mexico border to help Trump build a wall
Inmates in the jail’s primarily medium-security Division 11 can now order piping hot pizza — delivered direct to their cells
Johnathan Cruz justified killing three people in four days by citing the horror movie, “The Purge”
Corrections officers discovered Orville Morris hiding in a ceiling inside the prison pallet shop where he worked
Tiffany Li’s family helped her post $35 million and she is free from jail pending a September trial
A self-described psychic scammed more than $1 million in cash and valuables from a dozen people she promised to protect from “dark forces”
Christopher S. Hendon claimed he was part of a police program that gives kids prison tours to scare them off from committing crimes
Investigators said Jessie McCrimmon was missing toes on his right foot and had bone exposed. His left foot was being held on by necrotic flesh
Authorities say Winfred Moses and others obtained personal information from inmates
An Ohio man set for trial this week for an arson fire that killed a girl he allegedly raped and her grandparents jumped to his death from a fourth-floor balcony at a courthouse
If Tiffany Li does go on the lam, the court can confiscate the property and cash
Angelo Pesce is a convicted felon and cannot vote, but there’s nothing stopping him from creating the fundraising entities
Tiffany Li is backed by a consortium of people tied to her mother who have raised $4 million cash and pledged $61 million in San Francisco Bay Area property
The judge ordered the men to carry signs outside the courthouse that said “This is the face of domestic violence”
Darrik Forsythe and other inmates, using cellphones smuggled into their prison, befriended the victim through an online dating site and extorted money from him
The deputies’ injuries were minor
Executions have been on hold since 2014 after Joseph Rudolph Wood, who was given 15 doses of midazolam and a painkiller, took nearly two hours to die
At one point Gustavo Zavala-Garcia could be seen kicking and punching firefighters who attempted to bring him down
Jeremy Meeks took the internet by storm in 2014 with his “hot” mugshot
Two Detroit carjackers are back in prison after their victim went online and found they’d been mistakenly released
A state district judge lowered the bond to $150,000 later Friday
Matthew Ezekiel Stager was captured in Washington D.C. after two Metropolitan police officers spotted him