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Police arrest man for intruding at Ashland home By Dani Dodge of the Mail Tribune ASHLAND -- A woman's second night in her Ashland home was disturbed late Thursday when a man walked through her door unbidden shortly before midnight. "My husband and (27-year-old) son had just gone to bed and I was washing the dishes," said Joan Brown. "A young man, a stranger, stepped into the entry and said something I didn't understand." Although her husband had been living there six months, Brown had just moved to the home in the 300 block of Iowa Street from Irvine, Calif. -- a place where crime seems much more likely than little old Ashland, she said. Quickly realizing the stranger wasn't from the Welcome Wagon, Brown began screaming at the intruder, both to get him to leave and to wake her son. "My son was right beside me," she said. "(The stranger) took off and my son took off after him. (The stranger) kept falling and tripping in the yard. He was rolling down our yard." Ashland police caught the uninvited guest a short time later. Emrys George Scott, 21, of 30 Suncrest Road, Talent, was cited on a charge of first-degree criminal trespass. But that wasn't the only charge Scott got slapped with Thursday night, police said. A man who lived a few blocks away in the 300 block of Hargadine identified Scott as one of two men who had tried to get into his home and broke a window minutes before the Brown home was invaded, Ashland Police Sgt. Rich Walsh said. "They'd been drinking downtown," Walsh said of the two men seen on Hargadine. "Then they got up to Hargadine and trespassed and did criminal mischief." He said after the Hargadine resident called police, the men apparently split up, with the man identified as Scott going to Brown's home. "The one gentleman went to Iowa Street and walked into the house under a ruse it was the house of someone he knew," Walsh said. Scott was also charged with second-degree criminal trespass and second-degree criminal mischief. Police are continuing to look for the second man. Brown, an art workshop teacher, said she's not going to let an uninvited guest destroy her image of Ashland. "You figure if someone breaks in, it's better it being a benign drunk than something else," she said. "But, it got our adrenaline going." Mail Tribune Copyright � The Mail Tribune 1999, Medford, Oregon USA