DEMON BARBER OF BUS FLEET GETS JAIL TIME
A 23-year-old man accused of snipping the hair of unsuspecting bus passengers has been sentenced to 2 1/3 years in prison. Multnomah County, Ore., investigators say Jared Weston Walter cut large clumps of hair from three women and stuck glue in the hair of one woman on Portland-area buses in the past year. He was sentenced on June 9 in Multnomah County Circuit Court. Walter had pleaded guilty to two counts of witness tampering. Prosecutors say in one case he wrote his girlfriend, telling her what to say on the witness stand. They say he also asked a friend to buy scissors and plant them as evidence to lead investigators astray. Oregon law doesn’t specifically deal with stealing or gluing a stranger’s hair, so prosecutors charged him with third-degree robbery among other crimes, and later with witness tampering. — AP
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