Joker Busted

Rick Ross's Jail Time
July 28, 2008

We don't mean to pile on the beleaguered gangster rapper (and former prison guard) Rick Ross, but a Freedom of Information request has turned up additional documents chronicling the performer's penal career.

A former Miss Kansas and a dude who seemingly couldn't be more pleased about posing for an Oklahoma sheriff's deputy highlight this week's roundup.

Memo to Barack Obama supporters everywhere: If you plan on soliciting some sexual favors from a prostitute, perhaps you should leave your t-shirt promoting the Democrat's presidential campaign at home.

According to Utah cops, a motorist pulled a gun on mustard-seeking prankster. "Pardon me...

Lawyers for Brad Pitt are threatening legal action against news outlets if photos taken of the actor and his brood at their French estate are published.

A Milwaukee man who repeatedly watched the film "Natural Born Killers" strangled his girlfriend shortly after viewing the Oliver Stone movie, police charge

Apparently desperate to distance himself from any affiliation with law enforcement, the rapper Rick Ross has recently denounced as fake photos purporting to show him in a former career as a Florida prison guard.

Thug, flatulator, and survivor highlight this week's mug shot roundup

Porn star Janine Lindemulder is facing a federal criminal rap for failing to pay about $80,000 in income taxes, according to court records. Lindemulder, 39, was named last month in a misdemeanor information accusing her of stiffing the Internal Revenue Service for taxes due on $350,101 of income in 2004.

A New Jersey woman claims that Ashley Dupre, Eliot Spitzer's favorite hooker, improperly assumed her identity--and flashed her stolen driver's license--to convince "Girls Gone Wild" employees that she was old enough to be filmed naked.

Comedian Andy Dick was arrested this morning by California cops on drug and sexual battery charges.

When cops yesterday arrested Daniel Everett for allegedly trying to set up a sexual encounter with a 14-year-old girl he met online, the 33-year-old Michigan man was wearing a t-shirt pronouncing him the "World's Greatest Dad."

Texas Rangers slugger Josh Hamilton has turned his re-birth from a troubled past into baseball's feel-good story of the year. Here's his booking photo from a 2005 North Carolina incident.

An Ohio woman who lost her job after blogger Perez Hilton posted an e-mail in which she called him a "FAT GAY PIG" and Angelina Jolie a "fag lover" is suing the online columnist for $25 million for publishing her name and e-mail address, which she claims triggered hundreds of angry letters and phone calls from fans of the gossip site.

An 18-year-old Florida woman 18 allegedly assaulted her boyfriend with a toilet seat after finding him smoking crack in a bathroom of their home Friday afternoon.

Cops catch the red-eye, others in this week's booking photo roundup

A family dispute over the valuable estates of Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King has landed the late couple's children in court, with two of the siblings claming that a third has misappropriated money from their parents's estates.

A porn-loving college professor described sexual fantasies involving female students and teenage girls in e-mails to a fellow educator, correspondence that may result in his dismissal after the University of Texas Board of Regents hears his case later this month.

A 37-year-old Wisconsin man allegedly robbed a convenience store yesterday morning and made a highly unorthodox getaway attempt on a bicycle.

Lured by $1 beer and the prospect of "hot chicks" and "hardcore fights," thousands of Arkansans were duped last month into appearing as extras in comedian Sacha Baron Cohen's latest staged mayhem.

Citing a long string of extramarital affairs, the estranged wife of baseball star Alex Rodriguez today filed for divorce and is seeking alimony and shared custody of the couple's two children.

The July 4th edition of our weekly booking photo roundup is a celebration of life, liberty, and the pursuit of mug shots.

A 2007 deal memorandum covering Nicole Kidman's appearance in the film "The Reader" was found in movie mogul Harvey Weinstein's trash. Here ya go.

What can a baseball fan learn from a series of e-mails exchanged by Roger Clemens and Brian McNamee, the trainer who has accused the baseball star of using performance-enhancing drugs? Roger Clemens Can't Spell

With the news today that Leona Helmsley intended her multibillion dollar estate to be used entirely for the care of dogs, it seemed like the perfect occasion to unveil the below mug shot of the so-called Queen of Mean.

A Kentucky woman is facing prostitution charges for allegedly trading sex for gasoline.

A 46-year-old Florida man is facing a battery charge for allegedly striking his mother in the head with a pack of Polish sausage.

Billionaire investor Jeffrey Epstein today pleaded guilty to hiring underage girls for erotic massages and sex and will spend 18 months in a Florida county jail on the felony conviction.

A Connecticut woman claims she was forced from her job as a second grade teacher after appearing in a bikini on Howard Stern's radio program.

The fiancee of "Opie and Anthony" co-host Gregg Hughes has filed a $10 million defamation lawsuit against the New York Post over an erroneous gossip item claiming she made a sex tape with one of the stars of MTV's "Jackass."

Miami Beach cops have busted a rolling whorehouse that operated from a $250,000 bus and offered riders who paid a $40 cover charge lap dances and assorted sex acts.

You're not the only one revolted by that ubiquitous commercial for the PedEgg, the low-rent foot care device hawked nonstop on cable TV. Two Florida foot models featured in the spot allege that they were duped into appearing in the commercials and claim that the PedEgg's manufacturer even applied "horror make-up" to one of their feet prior to shooting "before and after" footage.

"Jacob the Jeweler," the New York businessman whose clientele has included diamond-loving music and sports stars, was sentenced today to 30 months in prison for his dealings with a Detroit drug gang, but it appears that he sidestepped an even worse judicial fate.

An Italian businessman who has been linked romantically to actress Anne Hathaway was charged today with operating a fraudulent real investment scheme in which he falsely claimed to have close connections to the Vatican.

A Florida man shot a teenager after ordering him to pull up his sagging pants, according to police. John Constantin, 54, was arrested Saturday afternoon after allegedly shooting David Mitchell, 18, once in the stomach.

An Ohio man allegedly used a cell phone camera to snap photos of a naked woman at a tanning salon Saturday and then hid the phone in his anus in a bid to thwart police.

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