Boston Blotter: Cousin Sentenced, NH Machete Killers Nabbed

-- 25 year-old Joseph Cousin was sentenced to life with the possibility of parole after being convicted of killing Trina Persad in 2002. At his sentencing hearing, Cousin maintained his innocence, claiming "I can look at Trina’s picture every single day and know that I am not the one who took her life." [Herald]

-- Four teens were arrested in connection with a hideous and apparently premeditated attack that left one woman dead and her 11-year-old daughter bleeding from her neck last Sunday in the sleepy New Hampshire town of Mont Vernon. Christopher Gribble, 19, was allegedly the ringleader of the group and the one who murdered Kimberly Lynn Cates during the attack. He and his alleged accomplices, Steven Spader, 17, William Marks, 18, and Quinn Glover, 17, planned to kill and rob anybody in Cates's home, which they invaded with knives and machetes drawn, according to authorities. Gribble, a Mormon, was completing his missionary training, according to reports, and lists Mitt Romney among his heroes. [Herald]

-- The former Harvard professor and his art dealer associate have become suspects in the alleged burglary of art from their Pebble Beach, Calif. home. [Herald]

-- 100 Boston police, Staties, and federal agents conducted a massive drug sweep and arrested alleged cocaine and pot dealers in Dorchester, Roxbury, Downtown Boston, and Quincy. [Herald]

-- An alleged coke dealer, who had just swallowed the alleged evidence, allegedly bit a Somerville cop, which itself is a crime. [Somerville Journal]

-- A member of the KISS Army "felt a warm feeling on the back of her leg" during Monday night's concert at the Garden that turned out to be the alleged urine of a man whom police arrested shortly thereafter. [BPDNews]