Hold The Mayo!

RACINE,WI — A woman reportedly broke into the home of her boyfriend’s other girlfriend and vandalized it — pouring salsa and mustard over dressers and clothes.



Connie Castro, 22 allegedly burglarized the woman’s home July 7 and vandalized it, according to a criminal complaint.



There was salsa on dressers, mustard on clothes, a couch slashed, photos ripped and curtains knifed, the complaint said. A king-sized bed, a silk bedspread and a 63” TV were damaged as well.



Items stolen included jewelry, shoes, Nintendo games, perfume, clothing, DVDs and about $725. The total damage was estimated at about $9,000.



Racine Police Department officers found fingerprints from the kitchen window, which was the entry point.



The woman said she had been having trouble with Castro because of the “relationship they both are in with a (man).” Officers matched the fingerprints from the scene to Castro and arrested her Friday.



Castro is charged with two counts: burglary of a dwelling and criminal damage to property, both repeat offenses.



If convicted of the charges, Castro could face up to 26 years of imprisonment and $35,000 in fines.

Duct Taped Lover

ADELANTO, Calif. - Authorities arrested a woman for allegedly trying to kidnap her daughter's boyfriend and haul him away to Northern California. A sheriff's spokeswoman said Tuesday that two women went to the young man's home on Saturday afternoon and tried to tie him up with duct tape.

The victim told authorities the women said they were taking him to get him away from one of the women's 21-year-old daughter. Authorities said both women were arrested on suspicion of attempted kidnapping.

Officials said the girlfriend was later arrested for investigation of dissuading a witness and extortion for allegedly trying to get her boyfriend to recant his statements on the kidnapping to authorities.

Morbid Love Fest

TWIN FALLS, Idaho - A southern Idaho funeral home was the beginning rather than the end for Gene Kincheloe and Mozelle Wales-Kincheloe, who tied the knot there on Valentine's Day. Kincheloe, 66, and Wales-Kinchelo, 72, said they met about a year ago while attending a weekly grief group at Parke's Magic Valley Funeral Home after both lost their longtime spouses in 2007. On Saturday they returned to say their vows in front of about 50 family and friends.

"This is our first wedding outside the justice of the peace," Wales-Kincheloe told The Times-News.

The couple plans to do some traveling in a new pickup truck with a trailer.

"This is kind of neat," said Nadine Ellis, who oversees grief group meetings at the funeral home. "It doesn't just have to be a sad place. It can be a place of joy, too."


Kincheloe had been married for 20 years before attending the sessions in which he met his future bride.

"Gene kept asking me, 'Who's that lady sitting over there?'" Ellis said. "I saw a pretty immediate spark there. When they finally got connected it was awesome."

Kincheloe made some early stumbles, though.

"I couldn't remember her name," he said. "Then I messed up on her phone number. I was trying to call her to go out for dinner."

She accepted the invitation but was less quick to agree to getting engaged.

"It took her a long time to say yes," said Kincheloe, a Marine veteran and former truck driver. "I proposed nearly every other day."

"As your parents get older, it's hard," said Wales-Kincheloe's daughter, Renee Mitchell, of Hailey. "I'm so happy she has a companion, someone to get out with. I feel blessed."

Ilegal Kidnapping Affairs

BELLINGHAM, Wash. - Three women believed a 28-year-old woman was having an affair with one of their boyfriends and came up with a plan to get rid of her by having her deported. A Bellingham police spokesman, Lt. Steve Felmley, said two of the women shoved the victim in a car Friday and took her to a Border Patrol station.

A Border Patrol agent, Michael Bermudez, on Monday said they took no one into custody and called police to deal with the women. The police spokesman said they don't ask crime victims whether they are in the country legally, so the 28-year-old is free.

Meanwhile, the three women are being investigated for unlawful imprisonment.

Felmley said, "I don't think this plan is working out the way they thought it would."

Spurned Love Affair

VICTORVILLE, Calif. - Prosecutors say a spurned lover ambushed his ex-girlfriend and tried to cut out the breast implants he paid for by stabbing her. San Bernardino County prosecutor David Foy says 28-year-old Thomas Lee Rowley attacked his ex in July 2006 outside her mother's home in Hesperia, some 70 miles northeast of Los Angeles in the Mojave Desert.

Rowley is on trial in Superior Court in Victorville for attempted murder, assault with a deadly weapon, stalking, burglary, and false imprisonment.

The 26-year-old woman survived six stab wounds and the punctured breast implants were repaired.

Rowley's former roommate Dennis McGill testified this week that the defendant wanted to reclaim what was rightfully his. Rowley allegedly told McGill, "I'm gonna cut 'em out and get em back."

Arrest Proof?

- Authorities said a 22-year-old Tampa man used his grandfather as a shield while he was being arrested. According to an arrest affidavit, the man pulled his 72-year-old grandfather out of a chair and in front of officers Wednesday morning.

The man kept fighting after his grandfather was removed for the scene. He was charged with two counts of felony battery and resisting arrest with violence and was taken to jail.

And The Winner Is....

ATLANTA - A contest that would pay $10,000 to an engaged couple, as long as they abstain from premarital sex, hasn't gotten any takers. The deadline for the Marriage for a Lifetime contest is Oct. 31. The prize includes free flowers, invitations and other wedding treats.

So far, organizer Phillippia Faust hasn't gotten any entries.

She said, "In our society it's going to be hard to find" a couple that hasn't had premarital sex.

Faust has orchestrated mock weddings and other pro-marriage activities through her Marriage Appreciation Training Uplifting Relationship Education program, a nonprofit that isn't church-affiliated. The program is implemented through Rockdale Medical Center.

Love Iowa Style

IOWA CITY, Iowa - A judge has ordered a woman to stay away from her fiance, two weeks before their wedding. Johnson County Judge Stephen Gerard ordered a 23-year-old woman on Monday not to have contact with the man after she was charged with domestic abuse causing injury.

According to police reports, the woman ran over the man's foot, then bit his hand when he took away her keys to prevent her from driving early Monday.

The man wasn't named in court.

The woman told the judge she and the alleged victim planned to be married in two weeks. She also asked if her fiance could drop the charges.

The judge told her to take up that question with her attorney.