Tag: Odd Crimes: Page 6

Patrol

Police Fatally Shoot Woman With Meat Cleaver

Modesto police shot a woman on a California playground after she allegedly entered school grounds and began hitting herself in the head with a meat cleaver.

December 15, 2009

Training

Ohio Rookie Tasers Boy After $2 Tobacco Canister Theft

A rookie officer from the Piqua (Ohio) Police Department used a Taser on a 16-year-old who had stolen a $2 tobacco canister from a convenience store.

December 9, 2009

Special Units

SWAT Called After Worker's Lego Gun Scares Colleagues

A worker at a Toronto design firm's decision to bring his new replica Lego gun to work got him in hot water when the city's SWAT unit was called to investigate, the National Post reports.

December 8, 2009

Patrol

Louisiana Police Arrest Nude Burglar

The Slidell (La.) Police Department have arrested the man captured by a resident's video surveillance system, while he broke into a home in the buff.

October 7, 2009

Vehicle Ops

Oregon Man Who Robbed Police Station Faces Nine Charges

A 26-year-old Oregon man will face nine charges related to his brazen robbery of the North Bend police station in which he made off with a police cruiser, two Tasers and a radio, the Register-Guard reports.

August 19, 2009

Vehicle Ops

Arizona Man with Police Siren Pulls Over Off-Duty Officer

Officer Matt Lydic said a man driving a black Ford Crown Victoria Police Interceptor model turned on a police siren while driving behind him, authorities said. Lydic pulled over to the side of the road believing there was an emergency vehicle he couldn't see. The driver pulled up beside him and told him to slow down.

May 14, 2009

Patrol

Man Robs Colorado 7-11 with "Star Trek" Sword

It may be a galactic first - a Colorado Springs 7-Eleven robbed early Wednesday by a man wielding a Klingon Bat'leth blade. It's the weapon of choice for the war-like race on "Star Trek", but fairly rare in stickups on Earth.

February 4, 2009

Patrol

Police Say Four-Year-Old Ohio Boy Shot Teen with Shotgun

Deputies were astonished to learn that a 4-year-old boy was the triggerman in the 7:24 p.m. shooting at his grandmother's house along Spriggs Road, about 6 miles south of Jackson.

January 5, 2009

Patrol

N.C. Carjacking Suspect Smacked with Frozen Turkey

Fred L. Ervin got his Thanksgiving turkey early this year. A passer-by armed with a frozen turkey used the bird as a cudgel upside Ervin's head Sunday while coming to the rescue of a woman outside a grocery store on Sunday, Fuquay-Varina police say.

November 24, 2008

Patrol

Georgia Woman Charged with Serving Tainted Burger to Officer

Officer Adams later came to the restaurant, which gives free meals to on-duty cops, and ordered a Big N’Tasty burger. He returned later to tell the manager that the burger was so salty that it made him sick after he took a few bites.

September 11, 2007

Patrol

All Wrapped Up

A hapless crook sorta brought his own handcuffs—and manacles, ankle-irons, and hood, though he didn’t mean to. Officers responding to a report of a home-invasion robbery in Georgetown, Guyana, arrived looking for two scumbag suspects. But all they saw was a merry mob of neighborhood residents dancing around a utility pole.

July 31, 2005

Patrol

No Hacksaws, No Dynamite, No Problem

While police scampered around the countryside looking for their lost convicts, investigators at the scene were concluding that the "explosive" that blew out the iron bars of a window and collapsed the adjacent wall wasn't an explosive at all, but rather a corrosive agent: human urine.

January 31, 2005