Unhoused Eugene man arrested after allegedly squatting in vacant home

EUGENE, Ore. – A property manager found two people inside a vacant home on Washington Street on Wednesday morning, according to the Eugene Police Department.

EPD officials said that police were called to the 1200 block of Washington Street at 8:27 a.m. for a report of two people in a back bedroom without permission. The couple gathered their belongings and left, with the man barefoot. The property manager followed the couple as they parted ways. The property manager tracked the man as he went into a backyard on the 500 block of West 13th Avenue. Police caught the man, identified as Tristan Frost, 28, who is unhoused, in the fenced backyard. Frost told police a drug dealer let them stay at the vacant home in exchange for food stamps.

The glass pane next to the door knob had been broken and there was glass on the floor of the home. Frost was arrested and taken to the Lane County Jail for criminal trespass…

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