Actor Randy Quaid and his wife, Evi were arrested in Santa Barbara, California yesterday for allegedly squatting in their old house, which they had sold over three years ago. Talk about falling on hard times. Damn.
Miami police this week arrested a woman for posing as a doctor and injecting another woman's butt cheeks to make them "look perfect." It didn't turn out so well — the victim passed out from the pain and almost died.
Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss are entrepreneurs, twins, Olympic rowers, and Harvard graduates. They are best known, however, for alleging that Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg stole the idea for Facebook from them back in early 2004.
Julie Torres was painting a watercolor mural on a piece of paper hung on a Williamsburg construction wall when she was arrested by undercover cops for "graffiti" this summer. Score one for law and order over harmless art!
A Wisconsin street musician, Brandin "Bongo Jesus" Hochstrasser, flipped out Thursday after a man complained about his "questionable guitar playing." So Bongo Jesus beat him with his guitar, assaulted a college student and wrestled a cop. Then he was tasered.
Six months after serving time on federal weapons charges, rapper T.I. was arrested driving last night in West Hollywood after police "smelled a strong odor of marijuana emitting from the vehicle." Another celebrity undone by the "vapor trail."
Two American men "of Yemeni descent" are being questioned by Dutch police (among others) after they boarded a flight carrying a bunch of suspicious—but legal—items. Officials suspect they were on a "dry run" for a hijacking attempt. (UPDATED)
24-year-old Efraim E. Diveroli, who scored a $300 million weapons deal with the Pentagon for Afghanistan in 2007 and was eventually charged with ripping them off, is at it again, trying to purchase guns for "resale in the Miami area."
The Arizona cousin/fiancee fugitive couple John McClusky and Casslyn Welch (a former white supremacist drug mule!) were arrested yesterday at a campground in eastern Arizona, ending their three-week odyssey of jail breaking, killing, burning and visiting National Parks. Bummer. [AP]
Did you know that it's legal to videotape police in action? Yes, it is. Although you may have a police officer threaten to take you to jail, where inmates will "rape you," as in this video. Fair warning.
Ronnie Ortiz-Magro, the guy on Jersey Shore who isn't the Situation or Paulie D or the other guy, was arrested on Sunday over unpaid parking tickets. He was released while I was in the middle of writing a protest ballad.
Police yesterday arrested a man suspected of being the serial killer who's attacked 20 victims in Michigan, Ohio, and Virginia, killing five. The suspect worked at a party store, and was reportedly "really flirty with the ladies." [Pic: AP]
Drag queen Jane Lane is well known on the gay club scene for his outrageous clothes and oversized personality. On Sunday, he became known to the NYPD when he bit off someone's ear and was arrested. Details and photos below.
TMZ reports that Jersey Shore guidette Snooki was just arrested on the beach in Seaside Heights for "disorderly conduct." When is she ever orderly? Details are still sketchy, but we already have our "Free Snooki" T-shirts made.
We come to you with a heavy heart to report that our long municipal nightmare of messy legal incidents involving women riding the subway with their tiny dogs still persists. Will New York ever be safe, for subway dogs?
Zachary Chesser, a 20 year-old kid from the DC suburbs, was arrested yesterday while allegedly on his way to travel to join an Islamist insurgency in Somalia. No surprise. Zachary fit the classic terrorist profile: he hated South Park.
British author Alan Shadrake was released on bail in Singapore today and his passport is being held over government worries about his new book, Once a Jolly Hangman: Singapore Justice in the Dock, which details the country's death penalty.