SANTA BARBARA, Calif. — Randy Quaid and his wife, Evi, were arrested on Saturday after they were allegedly found living in their old home.
According to the Associated Press, the new owner of the Montecito property alerted authorities, who arrived on the scene and found the Quaids squatting in a guest house on the property.
The Quaids told authorities they had owned the property since the 1990s, but the property owner’s representative produced documents that showed his client had bought the home in 2007 from a man who had previously purchased it from the Quaids.
Police arrested the Quaids on charges of felony residential burglary and entering a noncommercial building without consent, a misdemeanor. They also slapped a resisting arrest charge on the actor’s wife.
Last September, the eccentric couple was charged with defrauding an innkeeper of more than $10,000 after an invalid credit card was used at San Ysidro Ranch in Montecito. Prosecutors later dropped felony charges against Quaid, but his wife received a three-year probation sentence after pleading no contest to a misdemeanor count of defrauding an innkeeper.
Quaid is perhaps best known for his roles in National Lampoon’s Vacation movies, in which he starred as Cousin Eddie.
