Stylist goes to jail over haircut

A bad haircut — and a wounded ear — led to a Wisconsin hairstylist's arrest, authorities said.
Khaled A. Shabani, 46, was arrested after he snipped a 22-year-old customer’s ear, Madison police said.
Police spokesman Joel DeSpain said officers arrested Shabani on suspicion of mayhem and disorderly conduct while armed.
DeSpain said the victim told officers the hairstylist told him to stop fidgeting and moving his head before nicking his ear Friday.
According to The Wisconsin State Journal, DeSpain said the hairstylist then ran the clipper with the shortest attachment down the middle of the customer’s head, “leaving him looking a bit like Larry from ‘The Three Stooges.’”
DeSpain said Shabani told officers it was an accident.

Cop blackmailing wife who wants to murder him

A Pennsylvania police officer has pleaded guilty to a plot to blackmail his wife over having sex with a 14-year-old boy while she has pleaded guilty to plotting to kill her husband.

Keith Transue, a Bushkill Township officer, pleaded guil ty last week to misdemeanor criminal coercion, and Robin Transue pleaded guilty to felony solicitation to commit aggravated assault and statutory sexual assault. The Mount Pocono residents, both 43, are scheduled for sentencing March 20.
Authorities in Monroe County said in court documents that Robin Transue told an informant her husband threatened to expose her 2010 relationship with the boy if she left him. Prosecutors say she suggested several ways to kill her husband, including a drug overdose or a hunting accident.
"Mrs. Transue freely talked about arranging for her husband's murder," District Attorney Michael Mancuso said. "All kinds of potential death scenarios were discussed."
Prosecutors said Keith Transue failed to report the abuse when he learned about it, as he was legally obligated to do as a police officer.
"Transue was using his wife's crime to keep her from leaving or divorcing him. This in turn was essentially the motive for Robin soliciting Keith's murder," Mancuso said.
The police department placed Keith Transue on leave after the charges were filed, and Police Chief Mike McLouth said Wednesday said the officer had submitted a resignation letter.
Mancuso praised an informant who came forward and cooperated with police, saying he "likely prevented a homicide and also brought to light a sordid history of sexual assault and criminal coercion."

Engagement ends in murder

A 27-year-old Florida man murdered his girlfriend on Tuesday before committing suicide with the same gun.
The crime reportedly shocked the man’s parents, who say he was in good spirits just 30 minutes before neighbors heard two gunshots.
PEOPLE confirms with the Riviera Beach Police that investigators believe that Richard Travis Timilty shot Holly Given, 26, inside the apartment they shared. Their bodies we re discovered Wednesday afternoon.
Neighbors reported hearing “two pops” at around midnight on Tuesday evening.
According to police, there are no recorded of domestic abuse calls from the couple. Their investigation into the deadly incident remains ongoing.
A motive for the violence remains unknown.
The Palm Beach Postspoke to Timilty’s parents; PEOPLE was unable to track them down Friday.
Timilty’s parents said he referred to Given as “the one” and told them he was planning on proposing to her.
His parents also said Timilty was recently promoted, becoming a fishing boat captain.
They said that when they picked him up from a restaurant where he’d gone to meet up with friends, he appeared to be in good spirits.
“He was smiling,” Martinez told the paper. “He was happy.”
Given was a waitress, according to multiple media outlets.
She announced her relationship with Timilty on her Facebook on Oct. 20.
Court records confirm that Timilty filed for divorce from another woman on that very same day.
His divorce, from a woman he was married to for less than a year, was finalized on Nov. 29, PEOPLE confirms through online court records.
The day after his marriage ended, Timilty shared a picture of himself and Given on Instagram, calling her “my love.”

4 found dead in 1 house

Four people found slain inside a basement apartment the day after Christmas have been identified as two children, their mother and a second woman, authorities said Wednesday.
The victims were a 36-year-old woman, her 5-year-old daughter, her 11-year-old son and a 22-year-old woman who had a relationship with the mother, Troy police Chief John Tedesco said.
A property manager found the bodies Tuesday after being asked to check on the welfare of the residents of the apartment, one of five in a house located in the city's Lansingburgh section along the Hudson River just north of Albany, police said.
The slayings weren't a random act, Tedesco said during a news conference at City Hall. He called the killings the worst he has seen in 42 years in law enforcement but didn't provide details.
"I don't think there's any doubt that a person who committed this crime is capable of anything," Tedesco said, adding that police don't believe there was an imminent danger to the public.
The victims' names were being withheld pending notification of relatives, he said.
Police didn't know when the slayings occurred, but Tedesco said it was hoped autopsies being conducted Wednesday would provide investigators with clues. State police were involved in the investigation along with New York parole officials, Tedesco said.
"This will be a full-court press, if you will, until we bring someone to justice," he said, adding that police were seeking any information the public may have about the crime.
Investigators remained at the scene Wednesday. Police cars blocked vehicles from approaching the home, which is set amid older, restored houses, and yellow crime tape was stretched across the street, running along the river's east bank. Few people ventured out on the snow-covered sidewalks in temperatures in the teens.

Teen kills girlfriends parents after suspicious incident

A Virginia teen charged in the shooting deaths of his girlfriend’s parents mowed a swastika about 40 feet across into the grass of a community field, according to neighbors.
Penny Potter said Tuesday after the incident two months ago, residents of Reston talked to the 17-year-old’s parents instead of going to authorities.
“We live in a very safe neighborhood where kids can ride their bikes and not worry about anything,” Potter told the newspaper. “For the first time, I was fearful that there was someone living in our neighborhood who was capable of incredibly irrational behavior.”
Potter said the parents admitted that their son mowed the Nazi symbol into the grass and that they were planning on getting treatment for him.
“They were going to take care of it,” she said. “They were aware of it.”
The unidentified teen allegedly killed Scott Fricker, 48, and Buckley Kuhn-Fricker, 43, of Reston, after the couple tried to get their teenage daughter to end a relationship with the youth over neo-Nazi views.
Police said the teen fatally shot his girlfriend’s parents after they caught him in their 16-year-old daughter’s bedroom around 5 a.m. Friday and tried to get him to leave.
The boy then shot himself in the head, but survived, police said. He remains unidentified because of his age.
The police reportedly haven’t discovered a motive but family members and friends blamed it on “the couple’s struggle to keep hate out of their home,” The Post reported, citing family members.
Family and friends say the couple found a Twitter account they believed to be linked to the youth. Friends say the account retweeted posts praising Hitler and making derogatory comments about Jews.
The teen was charged with two counts of murder and, as of Tuesday, was still hospitalized in critical condition.