A representative of the property owner called
Santa Barbara County sheriff's deputies Saturday afternoon to report that
squatters had been staying in the guesthouse illegally. When deputies arrived
at the house that evening, they found Randy and Evi Quaid, who said they had
owned the property since the 1990s. The property owner's representative
provided documents that showed his client had bought the home in 2007 from a
man who had purchased it from the Quaids several years earlier. A contractor
showed police more than $5,000 in damages to the guesthouse that he believed
was caused by the Quaids. Police arrested the Quaids on charges of felony
residential burglary and entering a noncommercial building without consent, a
misdemeanor. Police also charged Evi Quaid, 47, with resisting arrest. Bail was
set at $50,000 each. Last September, the couple was charged with defrauding an
innkeeper of more than $10,000 as well as conspiracy and burglary after an
invalid credit card was used at San Ysidro Ranch in Montecito.
