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.
In one call, an inmate admitted that he tried to outrun police on his motorcycle, which helped establish that he was willfully and dangerously fleeing and eluding an officer
Nicholas Wayne Hamlett, who is wanted for a parole violation, pretended to be a “distressed” hiker to hide his crime, the Monroe County Sheriff’s Office said
The weapon consisted of six sporks bound together with plastic wrap and an instant coffee wrapper; the Multnomah deputy was struck in the face but not severely injured
“Jailbreak: Love on the Run” charts Vicky White’s 17 years working as a Lauderdale County CO, with coworkers noting her behavior leading up to the escape was erratic
Similar to the diet of a common college freshman, inmate recipes are both unique and often disgusting
John Manard escaped in 2006 with the help of a woman who ran a dog rehabilitation program; A CO who recognized the woman did not thoroughly search the van at the time
“What will happen to you and your body when I’m located & you didn’t report me: you overlook’d me continuously?” the letter said
The inmate made the bombs at some point during a four-month period and mailed them to courthouses in Alaska and D.C.
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
Kirk Muckenfuss was “caught in the act” of cutting the jail fence; correction officers were waiting for him, and chased him out through the hole
The inmate wrote letters threatening to kill public officials as well as demanding his release; all letters had “Inmate Mail” stamps and at least two letters had his DNA on them
The suspect, who had just escaped from the Glades County Jail exercise yard, stole a truck that was running while unoccupied and led deputies on a pursuit
While awaiting sentencing of 10 years to life, David Lettieri has filed 51 lawsuits since November engaging “in a pattern of abuse of the judicial process”
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
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.”
Prosecutors informed defense attorneys for Sheila Keen Warren on Wednesday that they had found a “clown sighting file” which prosecutors said they didn’t have
27-year-old Jersey City woman recently applied for the security job with the Hudson County department, thus giving up her location
The man was in court to respond to numerous charges, including second-degree assault
The man told authorities that he thought the “other half of his keys” was in one of the vehicles
His sister, Wanda Palmer, identified him as her attacker upon awakening
Both the bombs exploded and injured those who opened them, but neither victim was the man’s intended target
“It’s a proven fact that I will not tolerate foolishness,” Sheriff Burnis Wilkins said
The victim was rescued after she flagged down a detention officer in the jail parking lot
