Weird Crimes: Shocking News Stories and Dumb Laws - Page 61

Couple Charged
With Smuggling
Hundreds of
Sea Turtle Eggs

Dec 10, 2015 5:30 PM CST

Couple Charged With Smuggling Hundreds of Sea Turtle Eggs

They're worth $3 to $5 on the black market

(Newser) - Federal officials say a Southern California couple has been arrested on suspicion of smuggling more than 900 endangered and threatened sea turtle eggs into the US from Mexico. The US Justice Department said this week that Hemet residents Olga and Jose Jimenez have been charged in a four-count indictment. Each...

Cops: Man Went to Strip Club After Killing

Dec 9, 2015 2:42 PM CST

Cops: Man Went to Strip Club After Killing

Rodney Chavers said he wanted to clear his head

(Newser) - Police in Florida say a man went to a strip club to clear his head after killing another man in Riviera Beach. Police tell the Palm Beach Post 41-year-old Rodney Chavers killed 42-year-old Tarrie Wilder on Nov. 13. Following the incident, police say Chavers, who was ordered held without bail...

Son Charged
With Stealing
Mom's Stew

Dec 8, 2015 3:30 PM CST

Son Charged With Stealing Mom's Stew

Holy posole

(Newser) - There's nothing better than mom's cooking, apparently not even if it comes with a side of jail time. The Albuquerque Journal reports 23-year-old Jonathan Ray was arrested after allegedly breaking into his mother's house on Nov. 28 and stealing homemade posole, a "traditional New Mexican holiday...

Dad-Son Duo Busted in
$41K Chicken Wing Caper

Dec 8, 2015 2:15 PM CST

Dad-Son Duo Busted in $41K Chicken Wing Caper

Pair pilfered scads of wings from restaurant where they worked: Cops

(Newser) - It's a crime of some passion in Syracuse, just down the road from the birthplace of the Buffalo chicken wing: Father and son Paul Rojek and Joshua Rojek stand accused of pilfering a squawk-worthy $41,000 worth of wings from the restaurant where they worked, and as the Post-Standard...

Burglary Suspect Taken Out by Toothy Crimefighter

Burglary Suspect Hides in Lake, and a Gator Gets Him

Dec 8, 2015 9:41 AM CST

Burglary Suspect Hides in Lake, and a Gator Gets Him

Matthew Riggins picked the wrong hiding spot—an alligator-inhabited lake

(Newser) - A burglary suspect in Brevard County, Fla., said to be hiding from the cops drowned after an alligator apparently dragged him underwater in a Barefoot Bay lake, USA Today reports. Matthew Riggins, 22, had reportedly told his girlfriend on Nov. 13 that he'd be in the Barefoot Bay area...

Driver in Jersey
Was 'Looking
for Jersey,'
Gets Busted

Dec 7, 2015 12:54 PM CST

Driver in Jersey Was 'Looking for Jersey,' Gets Busted

Police say her BAC was 3 times the legal limit

(Newser) - When in New Jersey, don't tell the cops you're "looking for New Jersey." That was apparently Karol Andino's big mistake after getting out of her car near the entrance to the Holland Tunnel and telling police officers just that. Sensing perhaps that alcohol might be...

Man Allegedly
Tries to Snort
Coke During
Traffic Stop

Dec 5, 2015 3:59 PM CST

Man Allegedly Tries to Snort Coke During Traffic Stop

'Are you kidding?'

(Newser) - "Are you kidding? You're about to snort coke on the side of the road?" A routine traffic stop on Tuesday in Seattle ended with one poor police officer getting increasingly incredulous after the 73-year-old man he pulled over allegedly tried to snort some coke in the middle of...

Woman Could Go to Prison for Giving Thirsty Pigs Water

Anita Krajnc tried to give the pigs a sip on their way to be slaughtered

(Newser) - "Jesus said, 'If they are thirsty, give them water.'" The "they" in this case were pigs packed into a tractor-trailer en route to an Ontario slaughterhouse on June 22, and the speaker of that sentence—which is captured on video —is Anita Krajnc. The...

Cops: Bud Weisser Breaks
Into Budweiser Brewery

Dec 4, 2015 5:45 PM CST

Cops: Bud Weisser Breaks Into Budweiser Brewery

It was his destiny

(Newser) - In a crime too dumb to make a clever joke about it, a 19-year-old man named Bud Weisser allegedly broke into the Budweiser Brewery Thursday in St. Louis, Fox 2 Illinois reports. According to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch , Weisser got into a car crash shortly before 7pm local time then...

Precious Perp:
5 Craziest Crimes
of the Week

Dec 4, 2015 7:36 AM CST

Precious Perp: 5 Craziest Crimes of the Week

Including out-of-control arachnophobia and thirsty pigs

(Newser) - A bizarre judicial mandate and a mom who should've stuck to cooking eggs for breakfast are among the weirdest crime stories of the week:

Judge Issues Lord of the Rings Assignment : Bilgin Ciftci is accused of insulting Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan (a prisonable offense in Turkey) after sharing

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'Adorable' Suspected Drug
Dealer Has DEA Agent Dad

Dec 3, 2015 3:29 PM CST

'Adorable' Suspected Drug Dealer Has DEA Agent Dad

Maybe she was smiling because she appreciates irony

(Newser) - It turns out the 19-year-old college student dubbed an "adorable drug kingpin" by the media is also the daughter of a veteran DEA agent, Death and Taxes reports. According to the Houston Chronicle , Sarah Furay was arrested in Texas last month after police allegedly found a good amount of...

5th-Graders Busted in
Attack Plot Against School

Dec 3, 2015 10:46 AM CST

5th-Graders Busted in Attack Plot Against School

Kids accused of bringing vinegar, cinnamon mix to school

(Newser) - Five fifth-graders in northern New Jersey were suspended after they were detained by police for allegedly plotting to attack a high school during a field trip. The students from School 11 in Clifton were detained on Wednesday after allegedly bringing a device filled with vinegar and cinnamon to school. The...

Judge's Strange
Order: Study
Gollum, Then
Fill Me In

Dec 2, 2015 1:11 PM CST

Judge's Strange Order: Study Gollum, Then Fill Me In

Turkish justice is deciding slander case against president

(Newser) - Experts recruited in the case of a man accused of insulting Turkey's president have been given some interesting homework: study the character Gollum from Lord of the Rings. Bilgin Ciftci is accused of insulting President Recep Tayyip Erdogan—a prisonable offense in Turkey—after sharing photos of the politician...

Feds Bust Man With
51 Turtles in His Pants

Dec 2, 2015 1:00 AM CST

Feds Bust Man With 51 Turtles in His Pants

They spotted 'irregular bulges'

(Newser) - A Canadian man caught at a border crossing with 51 turtles taped to his body pleaded guilty Tuesday to smuggling or attempting to smuggle more than 1,000 of the reptiles out of southeastern Michigan. Kai Xu, 27, would order turtles online, travel to the US to pick them up,...

Mom Accused of Egging Homes With Her Daughter

Dec 1, 2015 9:02 AM CST

Mom Accused of Egging Homes With Her Daughter

Jennifer Terry has been charged with causing a catastrophe

(Newser) - A teenage act of mischief has landed Jennifer Terry—who happens to be 44—in some very real trouble. The Utah woman has been arrested and charged with causing a catastrophe, a class A misdemeanor, over an alleged summertime incident, reports KSL . On Aug. 20, Terry allegedly chauffeured her teenage...

Guy Insults
Stripper,
Bad Things
Happen

Nov 30, 2015 4:59 PM CST

Guy Insults Stripper, Bad Things Happen

Florida man gets assaulted at a gentleman's club: report

(Newser) - Insulting a stripper about her weight may not be the world's best idea—as a young man discovered early Sunday morning in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. Unidentified by police, the 23-year-old apparently told a dancer at Derriere's Gentlemen’s Club to "go to the gym and lose...

SF's 'Hot Cop'
Arrested in
Hit-and-Run

Nov 30, 2015 12:03 PM CST

SF's 'Hot Cop' Arrested in Hit-and-Run

Heavily photographed officer charged with hitting 2 men early Sunday

(Newser) - A police officer dubbed the "Hot Cop of the Castro" is in pretty deep trouble after a hit-and-run Sunday, the San Francisco Chronicle reports. Christopher Kohrs, a 38-year-old who gained social media fame for his chiseled good looks, faces two felony charges stemming from an early morning accident that...

Cops Called to Stop Domestic Violence— Against Spider

Nov 30, 2015 10:26 AM CST

Cops Called to Stop Domestic Violence— Against Spider

Witnesses heard man screaming 'die, die!'

(Newser) - "At this point, the male became very sheepish." So goes a recent Facebook post from the Harbourside Local Area Command of the New South Wales Police in Australia. Officers had gone to the Wollstonecraft apartment after receiving calls from neighbors concerned about an apparent domestic violence incident occurring...

Where's the Beef?
Trucker Steals 40K
Pounds of Meat

Nov 27, 2015 6:00 PM CST

Where's the Beef? Trucker Steals 40K Pounds of Meat

The missing beef is worth $110,000

(Newser) - Where's the beef? That's what authorities would like to know after someone stole 40,000 pounds of it from a meat plant in central Pennsylvania. State police say it happened last Saturday at Nicholas Meat near Loganton. According to troopers, a trucker loaded $110,000 worth of meat...

Missing Trees: 5 Craziest Crimes of the Week

Nov 27, 2015 9:12 AM CST