2A • July 20, 2018 • Seaside Signal • seasidesignal.com
Seaside man sentenced in shooting
Scarborough
gets more than
8½ years
By Jack Heffernan
The Daily Astorian
EVE MARX
A tribute at the Cove remembers Larry Loveridge.
Man dies in Cove
By R.J. Marx
Seaside Signal
A man who went into car-
diac arrest in the Cove Fri-
day, June 29. while surfing
subsequently died, Clatsop
County Medical Examiner
Dr. JoAnn Giuliani. The man
was later identified as Larry
Loveridge.
The cause of death was
natural causes, Giuliani said.
Loveridge did not drown.
The Seaside Fire Depart-
ment’s water rescue team
and firefighters responded to
the Cove area in front of the
Tides Motel on the ocean
shore shortly after 11 a.m.,
Seaside Fire Division Chief
Chris Dugan said.
Responders brought Love-
ridge out out of the water and
onto a board, where respond-
ers administered CPR.
Responders
continued
CPR until a hand-off to Me-
dix at the Avenue A approach,
where Loveridge was trans-
ferred to Providence Seaside
Hospital.
Gearhart police log
Seaside Signal
In his June monthly report,
Gearhart Police Chief Bow-
man listed three incidents of
vandalism; four of trespass;
one liquor law was violated.
There was one hit-and-run
accident. Of 35 disturbanc-
es, 34 of them were marked
cleared.
Police reported one case
of fraud and six incidents in-
volving animals.
The report noted there
were 46 traffic violations
within the city limits and 71
traffic warnings.
There were two traffic ac-
cidents, two of them resulting
in property damage.
Police say they conduct-
ed 491 security checks; eight
burglar alarms were set off in
error.
Police rendered assistance
in 84 incidents.
There were two open
doors that police found and
secured.
Police put 1,940 miles on
two vehicles while on patrol.
There were three custody
arrests, two of them involving
adults and one juvenile.
No burglaries, assaults,
sex offenses, runaways, or
drug crimes were reported.
A Seaside man was sen-
tenced Monday, June 9, to more
than 8½ years in prison after a
November clash at a hotel over
drugs ended with a shooting.
Shaun Scarborough, 29,
entered a man’s room at the
Beachside Inn in Seaside with
his girlfriend, Marta Garfias,
21. Garfias had allegedly ar-
ranged to meet with Christo-
pher Neaman, 36, of Washing-
ton state, to buy drugs.
Scarborough arrived with a
.45-caliber pistol and a bandan-
na covering his face. During
the encounter, Scarborough al-
legedly shot the man.
Scarborough said July 9 that
he went to the hotel with Gar-
fias to confront Neaman about
selling drugs to his homeless
mother
and
that the gun
misfired.
“I’ll take
responsibility
for what my
actions are, but
Shaun
it was more of
an emotional Scarborough
disturbance,”
Scarborough said. “I used her
to get in that door. It just got out
of hand.”
Neaman was taken by am-
bulance to a hospital, where his
spleen was removed. He then
was taken via Life Flight to
Oregon Health & Science Uni-
versity in Portland for further
treatment.
Scarborough and Garfias
were arrested a week later in La
Mesa, California.
Scarborough
originally
faced charges of first-degree
assault, second-degree assault,
first-degree robbery, first-de-
gree burglary and felon in pos-
session of a firearm. He plead-
ed no contest to first-degree
burglary as part of an agree-
ment with the Clatsop County
District Attorney’s Office. The
plea means he does not accept
guilt but recognizes prosecu-
tors have enough evidence for
a conviction.
Garfias was charged with
first-degree assault, second-de-
gree assault, first-degree rob-
bery and first-degree burglary.
She is scheduled for a final res-
olution conference in August.
For the burglary charge,
Scarborough was sentenced to
five years in prison. He will also
serve a consecutive sentence of
more than 3½ years for violat-
ing probation in a separate case
in which he was convicted of
being a felon in possession of
a firearm.
In that case, Scarborough
allegedly stood in a kitchen
and held a knife to his throat
for nearly two hours last year
as Seaside police attempted to
arrest him. After a standoff, he
was struck by a stun gun and
arrested.
The standoff came after
a reported disturbance at the
apartment where Scarborough
fled in a car. Police found a
handgun while searching the
car.
Scarborough reached a
plea deal with prosecutors in
that case to serve three years
probation and more than 3 1/2
years in prison if he violated
the terms.
Scarborough said Monday
that, at the time of his Califor-
nia arrest, he didn’t know what
he would tell Circuit Court
Judge Paula Brownhill. He had
appeared in her courtroom for
sentencing in the standoff less
than two weeks before the ho-
tel shooting.
“My life’s fallen apart on
the street,” Scarborough said.
“It’s a long time, but I do agree
with this plea petition.”
Scarborough said he plans
to use the prison time to kick a
drug addiction and rid himself
of bad influences, adding he
wants to be able to take care of
his two children.
“I’ve got things to do,” he
said.
Cove fireworks lead to call for action
Council
considers
workshop
By R.J. Marx
Seaside Signal
On July Fourth, the night
sky explodes with fireworks
to celebrate the birth of our
nation. But for many residents
of the otherwise quiet Ocean
Vista neighborhood of the
Cove, the night is one to take
cover.
At Seaside’s July 9 City
Council meeting, Cindy Daly
described the “outlandish use
of illegal fireworks in the
cove, in the dunes and on the
beach. “It was simply a war
zone and you couldn’t even
tell when the official fire-
works started.”
Ocean Vista resident Bill
Bosiliko said July Fourth was
an “awful time” for locals.
“If you walk up and down
the beach, obviously there are
things going off, and it’s dan-
gerous. The noise is deafen-
ing. It’s like a war zone. And
the smoke — you can’t even
see the regular fireworks be-
cause of the local fireworks.”
Daly asked for a task force
to discuss communication,
awareness and enforcement.
“Let’s not wait for one of our
residents to be hit by these
missiles or a fire to result.
Let’s once again work togeth-
er to educate and enforce the
existing rules,” Daly said.
The Fourth of July will
occur on a Thursday next
year, she said, and the party
will commence that will last
a four-day weekend. “If we
start now, we can put a stop
to this craziness before July 4,
2019.”
The comments come in the
aftermath of a busy Fourth
of a July week in the South
County.
Fireworks incidents
Three boys were hospi-
talized July Fourth after fire-
works exploded in separate
incidents in Gearhart and Sea-
side. In Seaside, a boy burned
his hand and in Gearhart, two
boys were injured when a
mortar-style firework explod-
ed. Both were hospitalized.
In another incident, Sea-
side police arrested a man
after he allegedly dropped
mortar-style fireworks into
STATE OF OREGON
Illegal fireworks as listed by the state. An illegal mortar fire-
work injured two in Gearhart on July Fourth.
the fire pits of other people on
the beach.
It is illegal to set off fire-
works on the beach, Fire
Chief Joey Daniels said. But
because it is under the juris-
diction of Oregon State Parks,
the state agency must be part
of the conversation.
“I like the idea of a task
force,” Tita Montero said. “I
live four doors from the beach
and three days ahead of time
and pretty much till 2 a.m. and
they’re big pounding things.
I’d like to see us get involved
and some of the citizens in-
volved.”
“I’m on the same page
with Tita,” Mayor Jay Barber
said. “The word is ‘anarchy.’
Things were just out of con-
trol. It could get very, very
violent.”
“I think we need to get
our heads together to begin
to think about how proac-
tively we can get the word
out that won’t be tolerated,”
Barber said. “It would be very
tempting to say isn’t this a bad
problem and do nothing and
all of a sudden it’s July Fourth
again.”
9:20 a.m., Keepsake Drive:
Burglary in the first degree and
two counts of identity theft are
reported.
ered at the school. Shortly after
more ear buds; a purple watch.
House keys on a lanyard are
also reported as found.
June 26
5:32 p.m., Highway 101 and
Frontage: A person is arrested
and charged with DUII.
POLICE LOG
June 17
2:34 a.m., S. Columbia and
Avenue A: A person is arrest-
ed and charged with driving
while under the influence of
intoxicants.
9:35 a.m., Twelfth Avenue
beach approach: A woman
with five outstanding warrants
is arrested.
9:39 p.m., 1800 block S.
Roosevelt: A theft in the third
degree is reported.
June 18
3:17 p.m., 400 block First
Avenue: Police respond to a
request for a welfare check on a
baby in distress. Police say the
baby was just having a very
bad day.
16:42 p.m., Broadway: Caller
requests welfare check on
subjects thought to be doing
drugs in a public restroom.
June 20
11:00 a.m., Police headquar-
ters: A person came in to
register as a sex offender.
11:55 a.m., Carousel: A child
reported missing is reunited
with its parents prior to police
arrival.
6:23 p.m., Avenue G: A person
is arrested for DUII.
June 21
12:48 a.m., Seaside Chamber:
A person loitering suspiciously
outside the building is asked to
move on.
4:46 a.m., 1800 block S. Colum-
children in the area. They are
unable to locate.
2:56 p.m., 800 block Second
Avenue: A bicycle thief report-
ed stealing a bike in the area is
identified and located by po-
lice. The bike owner expressed
a desire to press charges. The
purported thief was cited and
released.
June 23
12:59 a.m., Wahanna: A man
reported yelling and screaming
about treatment he received
at the hospital was cited for
disorderly conduct and advised
to move along.
3:43 a.m., Lincoln and Avenue
A: A couple engaged in a
shouting match were reported
by a caller. Police were unable
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nue: Sex crimes are reported.
June 24
2:44 a.m., 400 block N. Prom: A
person is arrested and charged
with unlawful possession of
a weapon with intent to use;
criminal mischief in the first
degree; and reckless endanger-
ment.
3:05 p.m., Avenue A: Caller re-
ports a guest at their hotel who
called to say after they checked
out, they accidentally left
behind their handgun. Police
contact the owner of the gun;
a search of the room turned up
no results.
9:57 p.m., 1000 block Sixth Av-
enue: An assault in the fourth
degree is reported.
7:19 a.m., 800 block N. Lincoln:
Theft in the second degree is
reported.
8:17 a.m., 400 block S. Roo-
sevelt: Theft in the second
degree is reported.
9:27 a.m., 400 block S. Roosev-
el: Theft in the second degree is
reported.
10:08 a.m., 10:32 a.m., Broad-
way Middle School: Multiple
phones are reported found at
the Middle School.
10:40 a.m., Broadway Middle
School: Another phone is dis-
June 27
5:18 p.m., Keepsake Drive:
Suspicious circumstances are
reported.
June 28
9:08 a.m., Roosevelt Drive :
Police contacted an individual
who violated their probation.
The person was subsequently
charged with failing to report
as a sex offender; they were
transported to Clatsop County
jail.