A 23 year-old transgender woman was arrested on a parole violation, and (mistakenly?) placed with male prisoners in a Manhattan jail. There, she says, she was repeatedly sexually assaulted by a guard. Which is apparently standard and expected.

Larry Wilcox — better known as Ponch's sidekick Jon from the 70's-80's cop show CHiPs — was caught in a sting operation by FBI agents and the Securities and Exchange Commission allegedly seeking kickbacks in exchange for penny-stock manipulation.

Charles Leaf—the investigative reporter for New York's Fox 5—was arrested for "sexual assault of a minor." Previously, Leaf was known for shoddy work trying to connect the Park 51 project to terrorist groups. Now, he's known for this.

Steven Seagal: Lawman is back! And it's still basically Cops with a celebrity guest. Fresh off handing a homeless man $20, Seagal philosophized about his job and warrior mentality. Then, he sliced some bamboo with a sword! Video inside.

You know those stories about soldiers who carry bullet-stopping Bibles in their breast pockets? A guy in Harlem got shot today, but the cellphone in his pocket stopped the bullet. Maybe God found out that we call phones "Jesus" now?

Concetta Serrano was summoned to her brother-in-law's home by Chi l'ha Visto—an Italian show about missing persons—where she was informed on live TV that her teenage daughter's body had been found—and her brother-in-law was responsible for her death.

Last weekend marked an outrageous and ignoble milestone of disillusionment for more than a hundred Yale students: New Haven police rudely broke up their party as if they were regular townies. Needless to say, academe is aflame.

The NYPD has released security camera footage of two suspects in last week's murder of weed-selling Pace University student Max Moreno in his financial district high rise. Seen these guys? Don't sell them weed. Call the police instead. [Previously]

Before Rutgers freshman Tyler Clementi committed suicide after his sexual encounter was streamed online, he emailed officials in his dorm about what was going on. Now, prosecutors want to see Rutgers' response. Also, the lawyer for Clementi's roommate has spoken.

The Justice Department has arrested 130 people in Puerto Rico—including 89 cops—and charged them with corruption and involvement in drug and gun trafficking. It's "the largest police corruption investigation in the history of the FBI." [CBS. Pic via]

Philip Calderon, the 37-year-old arrested for falsifying his age and impersonating a student at Binghamton University, pleaded guilty to raping a man under the age of 21 in 2008. Then he moved to Binghamton and joined the gay student group.

Criminals: are they becoming less able? In cities across the world, it has been a terrible week for those who try to make their living by robbing others. Three examples below illustrate this embarrassing trend of outlaw incompetence.

A lawyer representing Molly Wei—one of two Rutgers students charged with streaming classmate Tyler Clementi's sexual encounter online, which drove him to suicide—says Wei is innocent of any crime.

Click to viewAn eight-year-old girl was rescued from a kidnapper who abducted her in front of her home on Monday—thanks in no small part to an unemployed construction worker who recognized the suspect's truck and ran it down.

A woman named Daynara Fernandez is suing Hyatt hotels after finding a male employee in her room wearing her skirt, and her underwear, and her high heels. He kept his uniform shirt on, though!

How's the investigation into last week's Mexican pirate jet-ski shooting going? It's not.

When a video clip of a girl drowning puppies appeared online, 4chan went to work and identified the perpetrator, a girl in Bosnia. The police there tracked her down. And now: she's reportedly getting off without being charged.

Phillip Calderon, 37, was escorted off the campus of Binghamton University in upstate New York last Wednesday for pretending he was an undergraduate student at the university. Was this all a ploy to get close to gay students?

In Bell, California, America's most corrupt town, the farcical stories of civic corruption don't stop just because most of the elected officials there were arrestedl. There's so much more to learn about! Like the "disabled" police chief's exercise habit.

In London promoting his new novel Freedom, Jodi Picoult's favorite author had his trademark spectacles stolen by party crashers, who left behind a $100,000 ransom note. They were apprehended soon after by a HarperCollins staffer who "gave chase."