Randy Quaid and his wife are facing burglary charges after the owner of the couple's old house reported they had been living there without permission.
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A representative of the property owner called Santa Barbara County sheriff's deputies Saturday to report that squatters had been staying in the guesthouse illegally. When deputies arrived at the house, they found Randy and Evi Quaid, who said they had owned the property since the 1990s. A contractor showed police more than $5,000 in damage 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.
Randy Quaid, 59, is the older brother of actor Dennis Quaid.
From studio to courtroom
(source:ottawacitizen.com)
On his forthcoming album Before the Dawn, Jamaican reggae star Buju Banton crows about standing strong, though battered and bruised, in the face of a gathering darkness.
The four-time Grammy nominee recorded them before he was arrested on federal cocaine charges in December. The trial is scheduled to start Monday in Tampa, Fla. - a week before the album's U.S. release. He faces a possible life sentence if convicted.
Banton, 37, recorded the album's 10 songs last year in Kingston, Jamaica, before his arrest at his Miami-area home on a charge of conspiracy to possess with intent to distribute more than five kilograms of cocaine. A grand jury indictment also charged him with carrying a firearm during a drug-trafficking crime.
Banton's team will try to prove the singer, who rose from the slums of Kingston to massive success in the 1990s, was a victim of entrapment.
On the big screen
The Town is the talk of the box office, opening with $23.8 million to take the No. 1 spot.
The intense drama about bank robbers in an insular section of Boston earned rave reviews. This is the second movie directed by Ben Affleck, who stars alongside Jeremy Renner, Rebecca Hall, Jon Hamm, and Chris Cooper.
The high school comedy Easy A placed second with $18.2 million, according to Sunday estimates. And the thriller Devil from producer M. Night Shyamalan, about strangers trapped in an elevator, was third with $12.6 million.
The other nationwide release, Alpha and Omega, opened with $9.2 million for fifth place. The 3-D animated wolf tale, features the voices of Justin Long, Hayden Panettiere, and Danny Glover.
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