Elkins (AP) - Elkins police have arrested a man who allegedly rigged a doorknob in his home so it would shock his wife.
Forty-four-year-old Herbert Caldwell Junior is charged with installing a booby trap, domestic battery and terroristic threatening. Officers summoned to Caldwell's home found electric fencing of the type used for cattle installed so a bedroom doorknob would shock anyone who touched it.
Police say the trap was rigged to keep Caldwell's wife out of the bedroom. Investigators say the woman wasn't seriously injured by the shock.
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Speaking of knobs
PORT Washington, Wis. (AP) - A man who claims he is obsessed with doorknobs faces three years in prison for a burglary spree in which dozens of them were taken from construction sites, along with tools and other materials.A criminal complaint said Thor Jeffrey Steven Laufer told police he took a variety of items from the construction sites in the Milwaukee suburb of Mequon to disguise his obsession, "so that it would look like a typical burglary rather than someone just stealing doorknobs."
Laufer, 43, of Racine, was sentenced this week by Ozaukee County Circuit Judge Joseph McCormack to the three-year prison term, plus five years of extended supervision, and ordered to pay restitution. He had pleaded no contest to felony counts of burglary.
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