It's kind of a big 'oops' that has one man wrongly jailed. While most inmates proclaim innocence, one man seems to have the right to do so: Prosecutors won a first-degree assault case which has kept a man in prison since 2006. The only problem--the charge had already been dismissed before the New York guy was ever sent away. Read more
It’s the reason drivers should never get out of a broken-down car on the freeway: A Houston driver on Interstate 45 not only didn’t bother stopping after hitting a pedestrian—a man who was launched through the driver’s windshield—he kept driving until cops saw damage to his Mazda. The dead pedestrian was sitting in the passenger seat. Read more
A woman in Stamford, Connecticut, obtains DNA evidence for police in a most unusual way and highly effective way--battling an attacker she helped police catch, by biting off his tongue during an attempted sexual assault. Read more
The fact he’ll go down in history as a “first” won't ease the mind of Miguel Ashby--a Seattle, Washington, kingpin facing federal charges related to bath salts. Cops says he's been supplying a major bath salts drug ring in a business plan raking in millions. Read more
The Feds and law enforcement are getting very lucky--capturing two "Most Wanted" criminals, in just one week, in Southern California. Weirdly, one of the most notorious drug kingpins has been captured just miles from where gangster James "Whitey" Bulger was arrested in Santa Monica. Read more
Sexual predators unfortunately aren't unusual--but a guy showing up in a horse and buggy, to meet a young girl, ranks more on the bizarre tip. A Milroy, Indiana, man showed up at an undercover sting in a horse-drawn buggy to solicit a girl he'd been talking to via text. And, yeah, apparently cell phones aren't considered "technology". Read more
If karma exists and sexual assault charges against Dominique Strauss-Kahn prove true, the IMF Chief better duck: the woman he's accused of raping or sodomizing may have AIDS or test positive for HIV. Read more
No matter how many times it's said--that Facebook posts will be subpoenaed for criminal prosecution--it's criminals that don't listen. Wiping your teeth with hundreds apparently attracts attention Read more
Posing as a police officer may not be the most uncommon ploy but a cop posing as someone else is more of a rarity -- especially when it involves an unusual occupation like "massage parlor inspector." Read more