Odd Stories: From Winner to Prison in Under 12 Hours

Altoona, Pennsylvania - A man went from winning $2,500 in a casino to ending up in jail without ever leaving the building.

Mateen Johnson won the money from playing blackjack but things turned for the worst when he tried to cash out.

Detective Sargent Troy Johannides police were notified "When they swiped his ID [and] it came back that he had a warrant." Johnson was wanted by the Blair County Drug Task Force and the Attorney General's Bureau of Narcotics Investigation for his part in a cocaine ring which operated out of a bar.

Johnson said he was at the casino to raise money which he could use to make his bail after turning himself in to the authorities.  It isn't enough however; a judge set his bail at $200,000.

Odd Stories: Drugs, Two Bibles, and a Gun

Lancaster, South Carolina – A 28-year-old woman was arrested after she was discovered smuggling a cell phone, weapons, and drugs to a prison inmate using two hollowed-out Bibles.

Shareca Latoya Jones became the focus of the police department after the returned package was shown to have razors, a cell phone, ecstasy, and almost 30 grams of cocaine according to sheriff Barry Faile.

When they arrested her at a traffic stop, the police found a loaded handgun, almost 30 small bags of weed,, cell phones, and money in her car. She is currently facing charges such as trafficking cocaine, providing contraband to an inmate, possession with intent to distribute marijuana, possession with intent to distribute a schedule IV substance, unlawful carrying of a handgun, and two counts of possession with intent to distribute a schedule I substance.

Odd Stories: Comedian Gets the Best Laugh of All

Nigerian Comedia Gets the Biggest Laugh of All

Nigeria – Babtunde Omidina, 53, was arrested by Nigeria's National Drug Law Enforcement Agency while attempting to board a plane from Lagos to Paris. He was stopped after what seemed like little bags of powder appeared in his stomach.

After three weeks and 18 bathroom trips later agents have found nothing but porridge.

“If nothing incriminating is found on him, he will be going home a free man,” Bamidele Aturu, Ouidina's lawyer told Reuters.