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N. Korea Diplomat Busted at Airport With $1.4M—in Gold

Son Young Nam may have been smuggling gold for sale in Bangladesh

(Newser) - You and I can't get away with a 5-ounce bottle of shampoo at the airport, but a North Korean diplomat apparently thought the 27 kilograms of gold in his carry-on—worth about $1.4 million—was no big deal. Bangladesh would beg to differ, reports the Wall Street Journal ...

Memorable Mugshots: 5 Craziest Crimes of Week

Including a bad packaging decision and a race car gone missing

(Newser) - A couple of unfortunate (for the suspects) mugshots kick off this week's crop of weird crime stories:
  • Driver Is Apparently Shocked Over Arrest : Ashley Stabler got arrested for relatively nondescript reasons in Tulsa, Okla. But the 23-year-old's official booking photo is ... the opposite of nondescript. Here's what
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Teacher Shows Raunchy Film, Gets Jail Time

Sheila Kearns will appeal conviction of disseminating matter harmful to kids

(Newser) - A tip for teachers: Be sure to watch the movie before you show it to students. As a former Ohio substitute teacher at Columbus' East High School has learned, not doing so could land you in jail. Yesterday, a judge sentenced long-term temp Sheila Kearns to three years of probation,...

'Tough Guy' Cries in Mugshot

And sheriff posts a taunting tweet about it

(Newser) - Another memorable police mugshot is making the rounds: This time, it's a 21-year-old Ohio man named Andrew Marcum, who looks pretty emotional as he's getting booked. However he gets no sympathy from Butler County Sheriff Richard Jones, who posted a taunting tweet that asks, "Is it raining...

Driver Is Apparently Shocked Over Arrest

Or Ashley Stabler is just goofing on the whole process

(Newser) - Ashley Stabler got booked for relatively nondescript reasons—suspended license, improper plates, no proof of insurance. But the 23-year-old's mugshot in Tulsa? It's the opposite of nondescript. For reasons that remain unexplained, either Stabler is genuinely shocked or she is pretending to be. The Smoking Gun first published...

Guy Busted With Container Labeled 'Not Weed'

The container turned out to be mislabeled

(Newser) - He put his weed in there: The crack law enforcement in Lincoln, Neb., were apparently unfooled by a 21-year-old man's sour cream container labeled "Not Weed." As the Lincoln Journal-Star reports, the unnamed man was pulled over about 9pm on Saturday on suspicion of drunken driving. During...

Guy With License Yanked 41 Times Busted Again

Jason Brown is not confidence-inspiring behind the wheel

(Newser) - The state of New York has suspended Jason Brown's driver's license an impressive 41 times in his 36 years, and it might not be done yet: Cops on Long Island pulled Brown over yesterday afternoon, reports Newsday , after observing him drive erratically; they say they found pot in...

Driver Withdraws From Race: His Car Got Stolen

NASCAR's Travis Kvapil can't compete this weekend in Atlanta

(Newser) - When Travis Kvapil got the call today, he figured someone on his race team was playing a joke. "They said there was trouble with the car," Kvapil said. "I thought we could figure it out when we got in the garage area. They're like, 'No,...

Would-Be Car Thief Knocks Himself Out

Concrete block bounces off window, hits him

(Newser) - Three strikes and you're out, literally in this case. CCTV footage in County Louth, Ireland, shows a would-be car thief hurling a piece of concrete at a car window, only to have it bounce back, hit him in the head, and knock him out cold, reports the Irish Examiner ...

Woman Knocked Out by 'Drive-By Egging'

Police still looking for suspects

(Newser) - A woman standing outside a Seattle bar early Tuesday was knocked unconscious by, quite possibly, one of the last things you might expect. Someone in a pickup driving by "let loose a volley of eggs," police tell Q13 Fox , and at least two people were hit by said...

In Deep Doo-Doo: 5 Craziest Crimes of Week

Including another classic butt-dial

(Newser) - A judge in overdrive and a ruined birthday party are among the weirdest crime stories of the week:
  • Floating Strip Club Has Toilet Troubles : The latest legal tangle for a crabbing boat converted into a floating strip club off of Alaska's Kodiak Island: allegations it's been dumping human
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Judge Spotted Driving Tycoon's Seized Porsche

Brazil judge says he was just looking after it

(Newser) - Eike Batista used to be Brazil's richest man; now he's a billion dollars in debt and a judge is driving his Porsche. Reporters spotted the judge overseeing Batista's insider-trading trial driving the luxury vehicle in Rio de Janeiro earlier this week after a tipoff from the tycoon'...

Floating Strip Club in Legal Doo-Doo Over Actual Doo-Doo

Owners indicted, charged with illegally dumping sewage

(Newser) - The latest legal tangle for a crabbing boat converted into a floating strip club off of Alaska's Kodiak Island: allegations that it's been dumping human waste. Darren Byler and Kimberly Riedel-Byler have been indicted by a federal grand jury on three counts. According to the Feb. 18 indictment,...

Partygoers Busted After One Butt-Dials 911

Whoops

(Newser) - Today's entry in the annals of " When Butt-Dials Go Wrong ": A Wisconsin teen's cellphone dialed 911 accidentally, and when police responded at 3:49am yesterday, they found an "underage drinking party" going on at a house in Rothschild, the Wausau Daily Herald reports. Five women...

Cops Called Over 'IS' Birthday Balloons

It was a strange 21st birthday, Swedish woman says

(Newser) - Police turned up at a Swedish woman's house after a vigilant passer-by spotted balloons that appeared to spell out "IS" for Islamic State—also known as ISIS—in her window. After speaking to her boyfriend, officers quickly determined that the balloons were to celebrate student Sarah Ericsson's...

Alleged Crime: Attempt to Bite Guy's Penis Off

Assault said to have followed an alcohol-fueled argument

(Newser) - In Tulsa, a man has narrowly avoided the brutal loss of a key appendage, KJRH reports. Amber Ellis, 32, and her boyfriend were feuding "about how needy she had become" last week after they had been drinking, according to a police report. At home afterward, they slept separately. The...

Stop Punching Yourself: 5 Craziest Crimes of Week

Including an allegedly appliance-attacking appliance executive

(Newser) - A made-up blind twin and rapper Vanilla Ice under (police) pressure are among the weirdest crime stories of the week:
  • Guy Gets Beat Up in Police Custody, But ... : He was brought in for police questioning and endured punches to the face, but when Aleksander Tomaszewski filed a complaint against the
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Beloved Clown Found in Sex Offender's Home

It disappeared from amusement park years ago

(Newser) - If you're not from Wichita, Kan., Louie the mechanical clown may seem a little creepy—but where he was discovered is a lot creepier. The life-size clown, who played the Wurlitzer organ at the city's now-closed Joyland amusement park for decades, was found this week in the home...

Vanilla Ice: Arrest a 'Misunderstanding'

Rapper wishes world would focus on the 'good things'

(Newser) - Vanilla Ice wishes the world "would focus on all the good things I've done" ( like this , probably) rather than on the allegations that he's a burglar. The 47-year-old rapper-turned-home-renovator, real name Robert Van Winkle, was booked into a Florida jail yesterday and then released; he's...

Vanilla Ice Charged With Grand Theft

He allegedly took stuff from home under foreclosure

(Newser) - Vanilla Ice is accused of ripping somebody off again, but this time it doesn't involve musical hooks. Police in Lantana, Fla., have charged Ice—real name Robert Van Winkle—with stealing furniture, bikes, and even a pool heater from a home, reports WPTV . Ice is currently the host of...

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