Weird Crimes

Protesters threw soup on van Gogh’s “Sunflowers” in London’s National Gallery to protest fossil fuel extraction; glass-covered painting was undamaged. More

October 14, 2022

Authorities said Bruce Grady was connected to WiFi and could view a live feed from anywhere right to his phone. More

October 10, 2022

Victim advocates want to dismantle the “murderabilia” industry, a dark online marketplace selling morbid mementos allegedly from notorious killers. More

September 28, 2022

A Florida brother and sister are accused of purposely crashing into a motorcyclist. Narciso and Solimar Rosario are each charged with attempted murder. More

September 20, 2022

LA cops arrest 2 boys in connection with the death of a girl who overdosed at Bernstein High School after buying pills possibly laced with fentanyl. More

September 16, 2022

Jose Flores Ortiz was arrested on charges of impersonating a peace officer after he attempted to stop an off-duty officer in Brighton, Colorado. More

September 8, 2022

An unhappy customer at a Maryland Papa John's attacked a store employee, who in turn stabbed him with a pizza spear in self-defense. More

August 19, 2022

A woman detained inside an Oklahoma police car is accused of slipping out of her handcuffs, stealing an assault rifle, and firing at officers. More

August 18, 2022

Sen. Tiara Mack, a state senator in Rhode Island who was suspended from TikTok after posting a video in which she twerked while doing a handstand in a bikini, says she has no regrets. More

July 13, 2022

Former Las Vegas McDonald's employee arrested for spitting in customer's coffee. More

July 6, 2022

Workers at a McDonald's restaurant in Massachusetts intentionally put bacon on a fish sandwich that a Muslim woman had ordered for one of her children, a civil rights organization said Wednesday. More

June 1, 2022

GLEN BURNIE, Md. (Scripps News Baltimore) — A Maryland man is facing charges after driving without a license and crashing his car into a pond with two children inside. The incident happened April 1 at around 9:15pm near an Anne Arundel County park.    A police officer who happened to be nearby heard the […] More

April 5, 2022

Judge Spalding wrote that based on the speech, demeanor, and appearance of Stanziano, he suspected she was under the influence of illegal substances. More

March 16, 2022

Sherri Papini was found on Thanksgiving Day in 2016 after weeks of searching with bindings on her body and injuries including a swollen nose and a “brand” on her right shoulder. More

March 4, 2022

The 110-pound pig is “family,” Flatt says, an emotional support animal who helped him through a divorce and the death of his mother. More

February 11, 2022

A 21-year-old man who was acting erratically opened fire inside a Greyhound bus in Northern California, killing a 43-year-old woman and wounding four others before he was arrested, naked, inside a Walmart after getting into a fight. More

February 3, 2022

A man once convicted of double murder but let out of jail early is in trouble with the law again. Brett Whittaker was granted one of then-Governor Matt Bevin's controversial end-of-term pardons. The former governor called Whittaker a "new man" who had transformed in prison. More

January 25, 2022

A former New Mexico School District employee has been sentenced to 18 months in prison for stealing and reselling Apple products that were meant for Native American school children. More

January 13, 2022

Judge set bail at $1 million for a man who reportedly believed he was demonically possessed and admitted to killing a Marysville resident, saying "voices" told him to do it. Anthony Boggess was booked into the Snohomish County Jail in Everett for investigation of second-degree murder and first-degree attempted arson in the death of former roommate, James Thrower More

January 11, 2022

A 58-foot-long (18-meter) pedestrian bridge stolen from an Ohio city last month has been found and a man is facing charges, police said. Akron police said investigators acting on tips and other information Friday afternoon found the missing span partially disassembled on property in Sharon Township in neighboring Medina County. A man has been arrested and charged with felony theft, police said. More

December 20, 2021

A man accused of putting razor blades and screws in pizza dough at supermarkets in Maine and New Hampshire was sentenced Thursday to four years and nine months in federal prison. More

December 2, 2021

Hal Uhrig, who works for The Defense Group, was arrested Monday on charges of solicitation to commit perjury and witness tampering. More

October 19, 2021

"Hao Kuo Chi" + California man broke into Apple iCloud accounts thousands of private photos videos steal images nude young women plead guilty More

August 23, 2021

SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. (AP) — A couple whose gender reveal ceremony sparked a Southern California wildfire that killed a firefighter last year were charged with involuntary manslaughter, authorities announced Tuesday. Refugio Manuel Jimenez Jr. and Angela Renee Jimenez pleaded not guilty Monday to charges involving the El Dorado Fire, San Bernardino County District Attorney Jason […] More

July 20, 2021

By FREIDA FRISARO Associated Press FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — Two men apparently killed themselves, police said, in a suite at the Miami Beach hotel that Gianni Versace turned into his mansion, nearly 24 years to the day after the fashion designer died on the building’s front steps. Their bodies were found by housekeeping on […] More

July 16, 2021

BOSTON (AP) — Actor Sacha Baron Cohen has sued a Massachusetts cannabis dispensary he says used an image of his character Borat on a billboard without his permission, according to documents filed in U.S. District Court in Boston. The billboard for Somerset-based Solar Therapeutics Inc. showed Baron Cohen posing as Borat with two thumbs up […] More

July 14, 2021

IDAHO FALLS, Idaho (AP) — An Idaho Falls woman has been sentenced to up to 20 years in prison in connection with a kidnapping and torture case, a judge said. Sasha Dee Martinez, 34, will be eligible for parole after serving at least five years, Judge Bruce Pickett said Wednesday. Martinez pleaded guilty to aggravated […] More

July 9, 2021

AUBURN, Maine (AP) — Police have charged two Maine people with drug crimes after a mother complained that she found a medication used to treat opioid use disorder in her son’s Happy Meal box at McDonald’s. Auburn police said Wednesday they reviewed video surveillance footage and concluded the incident was the result of an accident […] More

July 7, 2021

A California inmate firefighter left “half a block of destruction” when he stole a firetruck in an apparent Independence Day escape bid. More

July 7, 2021

Prosecutors said Danyal Hussein was obsessed with demons and spells, and had signed a pact in his blood with a mythical figure known as King Lucifuge. More

July 6, 2021