Weird Crimes Category Archives
She Ain't Heavy, She's My Mutha
On January 20, 2010, a Cleveland, Ohio, woman pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter following the death of her boyfriend.
Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
Oldsmar, Florida, resident Gregory Oras allegedly called police claiming there were people shooting at him, and that he had a broken nose and was bleeding from the ears.
Drunk Dialer
This Waterbury, Connecticut, woman was arrested in December 2009, on a breach of peace charge after a married couple complained to police that she had repeatedly harassed them about having a threesome.
Public Display of Affection
Santa Ana, California, transient Charles Meaux was arrested January 27, 2010, following an incident on a rooftop in Santa Ana.
This Conviction Stinks
"It's one of those cases where you say, 'He did what?!'" said Preble County (Ohio) Prosecutor Martin P. Votel.
Ripped? Oh Yeah.
Actor Rip Torn (real name: Elmore Rual Torn, Jr.), 78, was arrested January 29, 2010, after police in Salisbury, Conn., responded to an alarm at the Litchfield Bank.
Can I Bum a Smoke?
A woman arrived at her home on Marco Island, Fla., at 6:00 a.m. on January 30, 2010, and Travis J. Ballenger, 29, was waiting for her. He allegedly asked if they could "hook up," police reports say, and she turned him down.
One Strange Fetish
Hall of Fame Selection (from our archives)
A University of Cincinnati student called police after an incident in the university library.
Interfamilial Deportation
This bullethead is Greg Raymond Denny Jr, 37. He's accused of posing as a federal marshal to aid him in a bizarre kidnapping in January 2010.
They Call Me Mr. Toe-Licker
Hall of Fame Selection (from our archives)
If you spotted Carlton Jermaine Davis on the street, you'd probably run the other way, even if you didn't know his criminal history.
Thrice Burned, Not Very Shy
When William Calderwood's Cleveland, Ohio, home was destroyed in an explosion on January 25, 2010, he told fire investigators his alibi.
Not the First Criminal to Load His Pants
Chamil Guadarrama, 20, is a slick character. A clerk at the Bath & Body Works store in Springfield, Mass., said she saw Guadarrama putting skin lotion through the fly in his pants and notified mall security.
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A Steaming Pile of Trouble
Following a noise complaint about their loud party in Greeley, Colorado, partiers allegedly lit a newspaper on fire on the front porch of the neighbor who had complained. After extinguishing the newspaper, the neighbor, Wayne Pickens, who "assumed they weren't going to be that stupid," waited in the front yard anyway to watch for further retaliation.
Good Doggie! Bad Criminal!
Mario Duane Porter, who turns 21 today, was pulled over in Gainesville, Fla., on February 9 for a traffic violation (police say his car stereo was audible from quite a distance away).
I'm Going to Stab You [Expletive]!
Crystal Mangum, the woman who set off a huge scandal when she lied and accused the Duke University lacrosse team of raping her, was arrested yesterday on several charges, including attempted murder and arson.
Oh, Just Let Him Keep It
Police in West Seneca, New York, are looking for a man they say stole seven bottles of shampoo from a Rite Aid store.
Unfit to Have Reproduced
Two Stanley, North Carolina, parents are facing misdemeanor child abuse charges after police say they recorded a video of their 11-month old son blindfolded running into walls and falling down face first. The alleged incident occurred on January 22.
No Quiero Stolen Police Property
A convicted burglar allegedly walked into the Trenton, N.J., police headquarters, past an unmanned security post, and entered the unlocked detective bureau, where he stole a radio, a computer monitor and a sergeant's attache case on early on Sunday morning, police say.
Not His Shining Moment
An off-duty Chicago Police officer working security for a restaurant was involved in an altercation on February 9th.
Unwarranted Attack
Drexel Green, 27, had an important appointment: he was scheduled to meet his bail bondsman to turn himself in on a warrant for violating his probation for domestic violence. Authorities say he attacked his girlfriend in December of 2009.
Kester's Keister
Kester Narine, 37, of Deland, Florida, got upset when his roommate pantsed him while he was climbing a ladder. The two were cutting trees together in the backyard of the house they shared, and drinking beer, according to deputies.
Walks Like a Duck, Quacks Like a Duck...
A man from Morgan Hill, California, was upset to come home one evening to find a "friend" sitting on his couch -- with her pet duck.
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Smooth Move, Megan
Hall of Fame selection
The why of Megan Mariah Barnes rear-ending another car is the interesting part.
Double-Barreled Troublemaker
Toni Dawn Tramel, 31, was arrested March 4 for public drunkenness in Owensboro, Kentucky. Then it gets weird.
Give Me a Belt
When a man stepped into the Indigo Room, a bar in Ft. Myers, Fla., the bartender noticed he wasn't wearing any shoes, and ordered him out.
Davy Crockett He Ain't
Charles Woodson, 40, of Front Royal, Va., has been released on $2,500 bond after his arrest March 1.
Snack Attack
Gene Edward Chambers, 80, was peeved at his neighbors in St. Lucie County, Fla. Chambers accused the neighbors of coming into his house at night and stealing his "Little Debbie Oatmeal Cookies". In all, he said, seven boxes of cookies were missing.
Houston, We've Got a Problem
Carly A. Houston, 29, was arrested after a dispute with a taxi driver in Naperville, Ill.
Call Ahead for Fastest Service
This stunning obliviot is Albert Bailey, 27. Bailey and a 16-year-old accomplice allegedly decided to rob a People's United Bank branch in Fairfield, Conn. But they didn't just waltz in and stick a gun in a teller's face. Oh no indeed.
Here, Catch!
A woman in Dallas, Texas, was upset to see that her 2001 SUV was about to be repossessed, and gol' durn it, she was going to do something about it!
Misdirected
A gas station attendant in Orem, Utah, reported to police that a man had stolen the station's cordless phone handset, as well as the attendant's personal cell phone.
Hush Little Baby
A "disgruntled" customer of a strip club in Chesterfield, S.C., called 911 to rat out the operation, which was being operated out of a mobile home.
Snippy
Neighbors and other witnesses say Thomas Alan Heugel, 56, of Grand Rapids Township, Mich., represented himself variously as a minister, an emergency medical technician, and a doctor when he performed "minor procedures" such as body piercing and ...um... circumcisions.
Love Stinks
In Las Cruces, N.M., a man returned to his car after leaving work on March 11th to find a teenager in the back seat, pulling up his pants. (No! He was alone!) If that sounds strange, it gets even weirder.
Oh Danny Boy
Police in Kingsport, Tenn., were called to a supermarket on a report of a man wearing a mask -- and nothing else -- running up and down the aisles last Friday night.
Just Another Drunk Driver
The 911 switchboard at the Douglas County Sheriff's Office in Colorado lit up with multiple drivers calling in an apparently drunk driver on Interstate 25 in the vicinity of Castle Rock.
Made for Each Other
Patricia Ann Cox, 46, was distressed that her live-in boyfriend had been arrested in Lewiston, Me., and charged with driving while intoxicated (and after having been declared a habitual offender).
Gimmie That Filet-o-Fish
At 4:30 a.m. on March 28, an irate customer in the drive-through lane at a McDonald's restaurant in South Brunswick, N.J., climbed through the window, allegedly threatened and then slapped an employee, and grabbed a Filet-o-Fish sandwich before leaving through the door.
His Sanity Check Bounced
Joseph M. Velardo, 28, of Port St. Lucie, Fla., didn't want to go to law school. OK, so he's 28, so "just say no," right? Not this obliviot.
Arrestin' is Thirsty Work
Hall of Fame Selection
Not to be outdone by the fabulous Dustin Winesberry, we have a female contender for world's sexiest mug shot.
Open Carry Movement
This fool is David Walter, 30. When Walter went to the Walmart store in El Mirage, Ariz., he was "openly carrying" a semi-automatic pistol.
Mr. Clean
Nicole Morales, 22, billed herself as a "spiritual cleanser". What that really is, we don't know, but she said she was "The Divine Master" and a Mayan Priestess.
Personal Foul
Sometimes You Really Gotta Go
Maybe the clothes just didn't fit.
Friends, Romans, Countrymen!
Bolt Out of the Blue
Anthony Giovannini, 35, told police in Trenton, N.J., that he had been having an ongoing argument with a neighbor, Robert A. Wood Jr, 41, over parking. Police were aware: they've been out several times on criminal mischief complaints.
When Ankle Biters Grow Up
Witnesses in the Meadows Mobile Home Park in Colorado Springs, Colo. say that James Williams got mad over a Wii game last Thursday. He allegedly chased after several people with a baseball bat, and intentionally rammed his car into several cars before hitting a pedestrian and a tree.
When Schoolyard Bullies Grow Up
Raoul Hughes, 48, was on duty as a City of Chicago traffic aide at O'Hare International Airport when he approached a woman parked outside a terminal, telling her that she was on camera and facing $320 in fines.
Class Act
It was prom night for Jessica Halter, 18, of Lorain, Ohio, and fellow promgoers complained to school chaperones that she was drunk. Principal Patricia Bahr and Assistant Principal James Rutledge took her into the hall and called for assistance from a police officer on duty that night.
Stuck in a Rut
Stephen Nicholas Petrocelli, 41, was convicted of drug trafficking in Missouri after police found 325 marijuana plants at his residence. Missouri probation officials allowed him to move to Maine, provided he continue his probation there.
Dirty Deeds
Dillon Makuski, 20, of Amherst, Wisc., has a weird fetish.
Was That a Wave?
Joynee Carter, 19, of Stafford, Va., got into trouble June 6 for showing police officers "an obscene finger gesture."
Puppetnaper
Sunday at 4:10 am is no time to try to register your child for daycare, Harold Raymond Caswell III found out June 13.
Condiment Queen
74-year-old Joy Cassidy had a bone to pick with the Ada Community Library in Boise, Idaho.
Low-Rent Crime Spree
It was a productive -- and well documented -- half hour for Brian Horst of Riverside, Ohio. Police say he started his crime spree at about 5:30 am on June 12, when he rode his white bike up to an ATM.
OK Buddy, Where's the Fire?
Overnighters at a campground in the Three Rivers, Ore., area, called rangers to report that a firetruck was careening around the area, and the driver was yelling obscenities at them.
Kitty Litter Catfight
It was a case of assault with a ...well... weird weapon.
Disaster Preparedness: Alien Edition
Dane Eisenman felt he needed to arm himself -- against the impending space alien attack.
Tattooed Trespass
Ottis Dwayne Ryan, 22, of Wesley Chapel, Fla., allegedly broke into a preschool on June 30.
Man of the (Very Expensive) Cloth
Reverend Kevin Gray, a Roman Catholic priest at Sacred Heart/Sagrado Corazon Parish in Waterbury, Conn., has been arrested.
Kissing His Dignity Goodbye
Toby Davis, 33, of Montville, Maine, posed for this most fantastic mug shot on July 26, after being arrested for refusing to submit to arrest with physical force, criminal threatening, domestic-violence criminal mischief, and sale and use of drug paraphernalia.
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