Oregon ‘Bus barber’ strikes again

PORTLAND – The “TriMet barber” has cut again, authorities say.

Jared W. Walter, 27, of Milwaukie, Oregon, was booked into jail on charges of harassment and a parole violation after cutting a woman’s hair in the checkout line at a Dollar Tree store, Oregon City police Sgt. Matthew Paschall said Wednesday.

Walter got his nickname in 2010, shortly after his arrest for cutting large clumps of hair from three women on Portland-area buses and sticking glue in the hair of another.

He was sentenced to prison for more than two years. Shortly after his release in 2013, he was accused of lewd behavior on a bus, pleaded guilty and served time in jail.

Police went to an Oregon City shopping center Tuesday afternoon after mall security alerted them that a man used scissors to cut the hair of a 31-year-old customer at Dollar Tree. Investigators believe Walter followed the woman around the store before attempting the clip, Paschall said.