Bizarre Beat
The Bizarre Beat topic gives police officers a place to get news articles of the weird crime news and funny police reports, including the naked protesters, drunks in clown costumes, and all other oddball encounters cops have on the street on a daily basis.
#1. In a diaper bag strapped around the mom’s shoulders with her baby in her arms walking into a courtroom/jail
Baltimore Police have again arrested Dominique Foster’s father, Lawrence Banks, and this time they’ve charged him with her murder
A lawsuit challenging an unusual Virginia law that allows police to arrest and jail people designated as “habitual drunkards” was reinstated Tuesday
Police arrested a man after he allegedly tried to flush a dozen grams of drugs down his toilet, something they jokingly said could create “meth-gators”
The men were suspected in a carjacking
Multiple towns had similar thefts, and their police departments worked together to come up with a suspect
A traffic stop in Guthrie, Okla., took an unusual turn
A man who tried to pull a gun while fleeing from a police officer Wednesday night accidentally shot himself in the leg
The unnamed, gassy suspect was wanted on a felony warrant for possession of a controlled substance
Court documents say the suspect hit and killed a man during a police pursuit. The rest of the victim’s body was found at the crash site
Betai Koffi is charged with two counts of attempted murder, three counts of assault with a deadly weapon and one count of carjacking
The man is accused of feeding methamphetamine to what authorities called an “attack squirrel”
There were at least 12 “clogging” incidents, according to authorities
Deputies attempted to contain a gator that was spotted in the middle of a highway, but the animal proved to be too quick for them
The former drummer was sworn in on Monday
The unsatisfied customer notified the Slidell Police Department that the restaurant was “out of both hard and soft taco shells”
Police say the man gave conflicting accounts of how the shooting occurred
An apparently hallucinating Florida man used a bedpost to attack a mattress
Police in northern Brazil have taken a parrot into custody whom they believe was warning crack dealers of impending raids
“He better be glad I didn’t have a gun,” Clarese Gainey said
The sheriff’s office took to Facebook again after her arrest to say “her witty comments are taking a hiatus”
The men were arrested in connection with aggravated assault
Police work is often one gross-out waiting to be topped by the next
The video shows approximately 10 people jumping out of a Ford F-250 during a police pursuit
The driver broke out in dance moves before getting arrested after a pursuit
The boy got the gun from the trooper’s locked police vehicle outside their home and shot his father in the buttocks
The officers were called to what was described as “road rage in progress.”
A caller reported seeing a man standing motionless outside wearing no coat in the cold and hugging a pillow
He was jailed on charges including resisting an officer, unauthorized entry, meth possession and wearing a mask
Police have arrested the woman on four counts of burglary
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