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Scuffle at wrong address leads to charges Drunken man looking for
Longmont party assaults resident By Owen S. Good, News Staff Writer

A man who had been drinking stumbled into the wrong Longmont apartment
while looking for a party Friday night and rumbled with the tenant. He
now faces two felony charges.

Charles William Schafer, 31, told police he had been drinking and
partying before he appeared in the family room of Michael Salisbury’s
upstairs apartment on Kimbark Street around 2 a.m. Saturday.

“Hey, where is the party?” Schafer demanded, according to a police
report.

“You need to leave, you’re at the wrong house,” Salisbury said.

“No I’m not,” Schafer said, and a fight broke out when Salisbury and two
friends got up to escort Schafer from the apartment.

Schafer, according to the arrest report, elbowed Salisbury in the face
and put him in a headlock.
The two struggled down a flight of stairs, breaking the bannister in
half and smashing a picture frame.

This is the third incident this year in Boulder County in which a
combination of booze and confused addresses has led to criminal charges.

On March 23, University of Colorado football player Ryan Gray broke down
the door to an Arapahoe Avenue apartment and slept on a couch as the
tenant screamed at him to leave.
The 285-pound lineman was arrested after an unsuccessful bicycle
getaway. He pleaded guilty in June to two counts of criminal mischief.
On June 6, a 73-year-old man fired his .357 caliber handgun at an
apparently drunken intruder, starting a struggle for the weapon that put
the intruder, Richard Schwartz, 50, in critical condition with a gunshot
wound to the head. The tenant, James Tracy, broke his hip in the
struggle.

Schwartz recuperated enough to be served with an arrest warrant last
week.

In the most recent incident, Schafer was charged with first-degree
burglary and first-degree trespassing, both felonies, and misdemeanor
counts of criminal mischief and third-degree assault.

He told police he did not have a current home or work address. He was
booked at the Boulder County Jail.

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