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.
Parking authority agents scanning license plates outside the courthouse found a car that had been reported stolen
Two men and a woman are accused of chasing down two suspected teen car thieves, forcing them into the trunk of their car and driving them to the station
Something stinks in one southeastern New Mexico town and residents want police on the case
A man who was being held in a police station interrogation room tried to hide crack cocaine in the room’s ceiling
Police say a woman charged with theft took a shower before speaking with authorities in an attempt to make it seem like she hadn’t robbed someone
Police say the man stole the car from a parking garage on the night of the officer’s police academy graduation
The pair ran along the side of a building and jumped a fence, despite a sign for “Peoria Police” above the door
Police say a damning clue led to the arrest of a man charged with stealing a pot of meatballs — red sauce smeared on his face and clothes
“Thankfully, we don’t see that every day,” Capt. Will Akin of the Clay County Sheriff’s Office said
The white horse, Guera, wasn’t hurt and was released to the man’s mother
A Pennsylvania middle school canceled classes after a student who said he was sleepwalking was found inside the building
Officers had to sift through the woman’s feces to retrieve the evidence after she was booked
Police stepped in to help a superhero in need of assistance on Thursday morning
An investigation was launched after reports claim that refurbishment engineers are overwhelming dispatchers with accidental 911 calls
A Virginia police officer found an unlikely occupant inside a car parked on the side of the road
Police in a Philadelphia suburb received an unusual report about a dinosaur on the loose
Deputies who questioned the girl said she eventually admitted that she had helped set up the robbery
Pastor Anthony Morris has been charged with aggravated robbery with a deadly weapon
“At this point, we want to assist Danny in getting back the last six days of his life,” said New York State Police Maj. John Tibbitts
The woman was charged with misdemeanor breach of peace
Police said a toddler was asking for a candy bar before a man with “a strong odor of an alcoholic beverage” grabbed the boy by the arm and spanked him
A New Jersey sheriff’s officer who appeared in bondage films as a dominatrix was fired after fighting to keep her job
Police in Pennsylvania were able to identify a suspect charged with stealing cash in part due to a “cartoonish” police sketch
South Carolina deputies said they found a woman holding her own eyeballs after she gouged them out
Police in Scotland had an hour-long standoff with a “tiger” that turned out to be a stuffed animal
Police say the man walked into the Dallas Central Patrol parking lot at the city’s marshal’s office detention center and started hitting the cars
Merrionette Park police Sgt. Jon Bruce said the device was not an explosive but was made to look like one
Attorney Jack Bradley said Cornelius Carey Jr. “always had mental issues and he’s on disability for mental issues”
A Florida trooper found a shoe box with two bricks of cocaine wrapped in tin foil in a woman’s vehicle, but it was too much for his scale
Police officers in Spain were surprised to find four tons of stolen oranges after a pursuit
