Suspect who tampered with ‘Goonies’ home arrested after excessive seas rescue

This man took the “never say die” spirit barely too far.

A suspected vandal left a stinking pile of fish at an Oregon home featured the 1985 movie “The Goonies” — and was caught days later when the Coast Guard found him stopping for his life after being thrown from a wave-battered stolen yacht, officers talked about.

Jericho Wolf Labonte — who allegedly tampered with security cameras on the well-known home all through his bizarre Feb. 1 prank — practically died on Feb. 3 when huge swells on the mouth of Columbia River capsized the heisted pleasure boat he had inexplicably taken for a joyride.

The huge whitecaps despatched the 35-year-old tumbling into the ocean, the place he was compelled to desperately swim, sooner than Coast Guard rescuers went into the the 47-degree water and pulled him to safety.

He was then taken to a hospital for remedy of light hypothermia — the place authorities shortly realized that he appeared just like an individual captured on video a few days earlier inflicting mayhem on the Victorian-style movie home throughout the metropolis of Astoria, Oregon.

Cops acknowledged Labonte because the particular person who had coated security cameras on the famed “Goonies” home — which simply these days purchased for $1.65 million — and had left fish on the porch, based mostly on officers.

Labonte was arrested Friday night at a homeless shelter throughout the Oregon metropolis of Seaside, the place he had been staying “under an alias.”

He was charged with theft, felony mischief, endangering one different explicit particular person and unauthorized use of a automotive, police talked about.

The suspect was moreover wanted by Canadian authorities in reference to totally different unspecified crimes.

The spot the place Labonte misplaced administration of the stolen 35-foot yacht is a notoriously robust a part of the river generally called “the graveyard of the Pacific,” footage confirmed.

He was rescued by Petty Officer 1st Class Branch Walton, a rookie rescue swimmer from Greenville, South Carolina, who was dispatched by shut by crews conducting a training practice, officers talked about.

“It’s been a really odd 48 hours,” Astoria Police Chief Stacy Kelly talked about Friday.

“The Goonies,” a Steven Spielberg film starring Sean Astin, Josh Brolin, and Corey Feldman that chronicles youthful misfits on a fantastical treasure hunt in Seaside, has achieved cult conventional standing over time.

The dwelling prominently featured throughout the coming-of-age picture was bought in December by a “die-hard” fan who wanted to guard and defend the oft-visited web site, based mostly on The Oregonian.

“Of course, no one gets in unless they do the truffle shuffle,” the shopper reportedly wrote in his written assertion, a reference to the humiliating abdomen blubber dance carried out by Jeff Cohen’s “Chunk” throughout the film.

With AP wires