Pokémon Go is all the rage right now. So it should come as no surprise that the augmented-reality app is leading to a ton of arrests — but not for the reasons you may think. Here are the creative ways people are getting into trouble, all thanks to Pokémon:

1. Stabbing Someone When They Ask You to Battle

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When 21-year-old Michael Baker thought he ran into a fellow Pokémon enthusiast, he quickly found out otherwise when he was met with a knife to the shoulder. Baker toldThe Telegraph he was hunting Pokémon in Forest Grove, Oregon, at 1 a.m. when he encountered the other man and asked the suspect if he were up for a battle. After being stabbed, Baker called police but refused treatment because he wanted to catch more of the fictional creatures. “Right after I was stabbed, I continued my mission to Plaid Pantry for my mission for chips and beer,” he said. He later went to the hospital, however, and received eight stitches.  No arrests were made in connection with the attack. “I basically risked my life,” he adds.

2. Robbing Distracted Pokémon Masters

Two men in Flint, Michigan, were robbed when playing the game early Wednesday morning. According to MLive, police say two suspects robbed the victims of cash and possessions at gunpoint. And four people in Alabama were arrested for also allegedly robbing a man at gunpoint while he played the game near a vacant building. U.S. News and World Report says the suspects are charged with first-degree robbery and third-degree assault.

Related: In Just a Few Days, Pokémon Go Has Located a Dead Body and Helped Muggers Rob People

3. Pokémon Go-ing and Driving (Bonus: Distracted Pedestrians)

Distracted driving is a problem at the best of times. And despite the game warning users to “stay alert,” an unfortunate few have still believed cars and Pokémon is a good mix. This week, Sydney police fined two teens who were browsing the game while driving near pedestrians. According to The Guardian, superintendent Wayne Murray says the pair were caught driving at alarmingly slow speeds and were each fined $325 and hit with four demerit points on their licenses.

And across the pond in New York, an ex-marine careened into a tree while allegedly attempting to catch a Lapras, a water-dwelling Pokémon which resembles the Loch Ness Monster. The Smoking Gun reports Steven Cary broke his ankle and sustained leg lacerations from the crash. Cops say he admitted to playing the app before losing control. He is expected to be cited for the one-car wreck.
But it’s also worth mentioning cases where distracted pedestrians got themselves in dangerous situations while playing the mobile game. A Pennsylvania mom claims her 15-year-old daughter was struck by a car as she crossed a major highway. According toWPXI, Autumn Diesroth is hospitalized with collarbone and foot injuries after the game placed Pokémon across the highway during 5 p.m. rush hour. Mother Tracy Nolan said, “Parents, don’t let your kids play this game because you don’t want to go through what I went through last night. I really thought I was losing my daughter.”

Others who should have paid attention to their surroundings: Two California men fell off a beachside cliff while playing, some British teens’ search for Pokémon got lost in caves and had to be rescued by a specialist mine rescue team, and one New Hampshire man was less than thrilled with the dead body he uncovered at a Pokéstop, a location where users can grab extra items and experience points.

Related: Pokémon Tournament Attendees Bring Arsenal of Guns, Posted Intentions to Kill Fellow Gamers

4. Being a Sex Offender & Using the App to Lure Kids

Though experts have warned parents of the many dangers that come with the fun app, one rising concern is how sex offenders could leverage the app to take advantage of children. WGNTV reports that Randy Zuick, who was convicted of molesting a child under 14, was found playing Pokémon Go with a 16-year-old boy outside of an Indiana courthouse. Only a registered sex offender for three months, the 42-year-old violated the terms of his plea agreement which barred him from interacting with kids.

Another cause for concern is Pokéstops, randomized locations that give players a slew of perks. ABC13 reports that the app had Sunny Acres, a facility for alcoholics, drug addicts, and sex offenders, designated as a stop.

5. Breaking Into a Zoo to Get to Pokéstops

Though people are going to great lengths to capture Pokémon and Pokéstops, most haven’t put themselves in danger of a tiger attack. Robin Bartholomy and Adrian Crawford are facing criminal-trespassing charges for allegedly jumping the fence at Toledo Zoo at 2 a.m. KPTV reports officers caught the duo near a tiger exhibit. “I was just hanging out with my friend, we were playing Pokémon Go at Walbridge Park, and we were just like, ‘Hey, I got a crazy idea. Let’s jump the fence!’” Bartholomy explains. “It doesn’t matter if it’s a Charizard, don’t break into people’s property to catch it.”

Joshua Lee Long’s aunt was cleaning a trailer belonging to her sister, Angela Sue Micklo, and her sister’s boyfriend, Robbie Lee Zoller, when she stumbled upon a brain in a Walmart shopping bag. She reported her finding to the Carlisle, Pennsylvania, authorities and was surprised to learn that it was a real human brain, most likely a teaching specimen that had been stolen. Initially, Cumberland County coroner Charley Hall had expected to discover that it was a novelty Halloween brain.

Micklo and Zoller have been on the run for five weeks, suspected of having committed eight burglaries. If you have any information on Zoller and Micklo, Silver Spring Township Detective Andrew Bassler asks that you contact him at 717-591-8240 or abassler@sstwp.org.

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It turned out that her nephew Long, 26, and Zoller, had been using the embalming fluid in which the brain is soaking to get high, spraying it on marijuana before they smoked it.

According to the investigator, Trooper John Boardman, “The defendant related that he knew it was illegal to have the brain and that he and (another man) would spray the embalming fluid on weed to get high.” Marijuana treated with embalming fluid is called“wet.” Corporal Bryan Henneman of the Carlisle barracks added, “It gives the person an extra high – it’s extremely dangerous. It can kill you.”

Court records say that Long and Zoller had nicknamed the brain “Freddy.”

Not “Freddy,” but a different human brain in a jar.

JAILED CARTEL HITWOMAN ADMITS NECROPHILIA, CLAIMS TO HAVE PLEASURED HERSELF WITH BEHEADED CORPSES AND DRANK THEIR BLOOD

The logo of Los Zetas cartel. [Image: Wikimedia Commons]

A Mexican hitwoman for one of Mexico’s most dangerous cartels, the Zetas, who is currently incarcerated in Baja, California, has come forward with some shocking and gruesome confessions.The Mexico City native, Juana, 28, who is known as “La Peque” due to her petite stature, admitted to becoming sexually aroused by murder and gore. She would first behead her victims, also drinking their blood while it was still hot, and then shockingly would use both the dead bodies and the severed heads for sexual gratification.

Women always have to work twice as hard as a man to earn respect, and in a subculture where murders and beheadings are almost common, maybe she had to do something more extreme to rise above and get noticed.

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As a teenager, she became an alcoholic and a drug addict, got pregnant at age 15, and then worked as a prostitute to support herself and her baby. Already living a dangerous life of crime, it wasn’t too much of a stretch when she began working as a lookout for the cartel in 2010, despite them having killed her brother just months prior. In an article in The Daily Mail, she details aspects of this job. She stated that she was required to stand guard for eight hours at a stretch, looking out or police or army patrols, and if she wasn’t able to do this task correctly, she was tied up for a week and only allowed one taco to eat per day.

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Although her role wasn’t a violent one, she was exposed to blood, violence, and death around the cartel, such as witnessing a man’s head be smashed open with a mace. She says that at first she was disgusted and saddened by it, but over time, she grew to enjoy it.

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She states that after she began working as a hitwoman, she would “feel excited by it, rubbing myself in it and bathing in it after killing a victim. I even drank it when it was still warm,” she claims.

Using a translation from a Spanish publication, DenunciasMX, The Daily Mailalso attests that this necro, narco queen “had sex with the cadavers of those decapitated, using the severed heads as well as the rest of their bodies to pleasure herself.”

Other Zetas members have been accusedof chopping up their victims and also cooking them with diesel fuel.

This scandalous criminal is still imprisoned while she awaits her sentencing. Admissions such as this probably will not help her case.

ONE-ARMED MISSOURI MAN ACCUSED OF USING PROSTHETIC LIMB IN MULTIPLE ASSAULTS

A Missouri man found himself minus one arm after police took the limb because he allegedly used it to commit at least two crimes. Huh?

According to St. Louis Today, Joshua Stockinger wears a mechanical arm. According to investigators, the prosthetic came in quite handy when the 28-year-old reportedly used it to break out of a jail cell following his arrest for assault.

On July 7, according to the report, Stockinger was charged with armed criminal action, first and second degree-assault and leaving the scene of a crash after an alleged road rage incident on July 6. According to the 53-year-old victim, Stockinger reportedly followed him off the highway, and when the victim got out of his van, Stockinger allegedly pinned him up against it with his own vehicle.

When first responders arrived on the scene, they found the victim with two broken legs. The victim’s 54-year-old wife, who was driving just behind her husband in her own car, claimed to News Channel 5 that Stockinger also whacked her in the head with his prosthetic arm when she tried to stop him from leaving the scene. The couple was transported to a local hospital and treated for their injuries.

Stockinger was arrested and reportedly “enraged” by the subsequent charges; so much so, that he allegedly used his prosthetic arm to attempt to break the glass of a jail door.

“He got upset and was banging on the cell,” Jefferson County Sheriff’s Lt. Gary Higginbotham said. Police have since confiscated the arm.

This isn’t the only incident where Stockinger used his mechanical arm for nefarious purposes. In May, police in St. Louis charged Stockinger with first-degree assault on a law enforcement officer and felony resisting arrest after he allegedly used his arm hit an officer. His arm was taken away as evidence in the case, but then returned. Stockinger was out on bail when the most recent incident occurred. Now he’s being held in lieu of $150,000 cash bail, and his arm is in custody with the rest of his personal belongings.

CALIFORNIA MAN ARRESTED AFTER PET CHIHUAHUA, NAMED “JACK SPARROW,” TESTS POSITIVE FOR METH

A California man was arrested when his pet Chihuahua reportedly almost died after he overdosed on meth.

Isaiah Nathaniel Sais took his dog, named Jack Sparrow, to the Inland Valley Veterinary Specialists and Emergency Center in Upland. The 21-year-old told vets the dog might have ingested methamphetamine, which was confirmed when the dog tested positive for “crank,” the San Bernardino County Sun reports.

Veterinarian Dr. Allison Pope claimed the pup was in serious condition, “suffering from convulsions, seizures, and an irregular heartbeat,” according to the Associated Press. Upon getting the test results, Sais took the dog and left without getting him treatment.

A short time later, Animal Services went to the suspect’s home and rescued Jack Sparrow, who they believed was being neglected and left indoors for months at a time.

“There was the smell of urine in his fur and his nails were overgrown,” Jaime Simmons from Fontana Animal Services said.

NBC Los Angeles reports police arrested Sais in Rancho Cucamonga on suspicion of felony animal cruelty. Jack is being treated at an animal hospital and is hypersensitive to noise and sudden movements. Police say the dog will be placed in a foster home when his condition improves.

IN JUST A FEW DAYS, POKÉMON GO HAS LOCATED A DEAD BODY AND HELPED MUGGERS ROB PEOPLE

A Wyoming teen, following instructions from her augmented-reality cell phone game, discovered a corpse in a river. KTVQ reports that 19-year-old Shayla Wiggins was playing the Pokémon Go game on her cell phone when it guided her into the alarming discovery. “It was pretty shocking. I really didn’t know what to do at first,” she told the station. “I was pretty scared and cried for a while,” she told County 10.

The actual purpose for the game is for users to find as many Pokémons as possible and“capture” them. You may remember the original version of the game from its popularity back in the nineties; CBS News says millions have downloaded the new release of the game since last Thursday. In this case, Wiggins said she was using her iPhone 6 and attempting to get a Pokémon from a natural water resource in the Riverton area.

As the teen was walking down the bank of Big Wind River, she said she didn’t notice the corpse at first because she spotted a deer. Wiggins said, of her discovery, “I saw something in the water. I had to take a second look and I realized it was a body,” KTVQ reports. Wiggins said she called 911, and investigators responded quickly.

Wiggins said the dead body was about three feet from the shore, and was possibly a male, wearing black pants and a black shirt. She said she realized it was a corpse after she saw the person’s behind and back.

The report said detectives told Wiggins the body may have been there for less than 24 hours, based on the condition. The cause and manner of death has not been determined. It’s unclear if anyone was reported missing from the area. Police are still investigating.

If finding a corpse isn’t enough for the release of one game in just a few days, cops in Missouri say it’s already been used for armed robberies in Missouri. According to USA Today, four teens, ranging in age from to 16 to 18, are facing charges after police there say they may have allegedly committed as many as 11 robberies. The report said the teens may have used the “lure” feature of the game to attract more Pokemons or people to isolated locations. A recent post by the O’Fallon Missouri Facebook page stated,“The way we believe it was used is you can add a beacon to a Pokéstop to lure more players. Apparently they were using the app to locate [people] standing around in the middle of a parking lot or whatever other location they were in.” Three adult suspects are charged with first-degree robbery and armed criminal action. A handgun was also found in their possession.

Those three suspects have been identified as 17-year-old Brett Miller, 18-year-old Shane Michael Baker, and 18-year-old Jamine Warner. Their bond is set at $100,000. The fourth suspect, who is a juvenile, has been transferred to a juvenile justice center.

Police warn parents to monitor children and to use caution when using this geocaching app.

As for the Wyoming case, despite the gruesome body discovery, Wiggins told CNN Money she doesn’t plan to stop playing the game. In fact, she wants to keep exploring as much as Wyoming as possible before she heads off to college in Arizona this fall.