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Cops: Pennsylvania man used transmitter to track wife’s sex

ALIQUIPPA, Pa.

Police have charged a Pennsylvania man with hiding a remote listening device under his estranged wife’s bed that he said he used to avoid overhearing her sex life in the house they still shared.

Raccoon Township police say 66-year-old Wayne Comet Cripe’s wife contacted them after finding the transmitter under her bed last month. The Cripes are separated but still share a home with separate bedrooms.

The Beaver County Times reported Thursday that Cripe acknowledged using the device, telling officers he put it there so he’d know when his wife and her boyfriend were having sex.

Police say Cripe was tired of overhearing the lovemaking and tried to use the device, which he said didn’t work, to determine whether “the coast was clear” before returning home.

Police: W. Pa. woman stole newspapers for coupons

LEECHBURG, Pa.

Police have charged a 58-year-old western Pennsylvania woman with stealing newspapers in bulk because she wanted the coupons in the papers.

Online court records don’t list an attorney for Linda Altman, of Vandergrift, who did not immediately return a call for comment to her home phone Thursday.

Police in Allegheny Township, Westmoreland County, charged Altman on Wednesday with burglary, theft and related charges for reportedly stealing the papers from a storage shed where the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette drops off papers for a local carrier. They believe she’s stolen about $2,700 worth of newspapers in the past 17 months.

Police say they caught Altman just after she grabbed two bundles of 100 newspapers each Wednesday morning.

Police Chief John Fontaine says Altman told them “she was after the coupons. I’ve heard of extreme couponing, but not like this.”

Police: Pa. man caught purple-handed in meter theft

SOMERSET, Pa.

Police in one southwestern Pennsylvania borough say a man who’s been stealing money from parking meters since November has been caught purple-handed.

Somerset police Chief Randy Cox said police began applying a purple dye to the inside surfaces of some meters that have been broken into and repaired and aimed a security camera in one business so it would cover some meters in a business district where the thefts had been occurring.

Online court records don’t list an attorney for 22-year-old Justin Hardesty, who was captured on video Sunday and found with purple hands before police say he confessed stealing about $250 from the meters. The Associated Press could not locate a listed phone number for Hardesty.

Police say the repairs have cost about $5,000 in this borough about 65 miles southeast of Pittsburgh.

Associated Press