Noisy Neighbor to Move

A Garden Grove homemaker convicted of disturbing the peace said Thursday that she plans to move out of the neighborhood, a day after she was sentenced to 10 days in jail for playing the radio too loudly while doing the laundry.

Shawna Enyart, 38, said she and her husband will sell their two-story red-brick home and move to a beach city so neighbors can live “peacefully.”

“The last thing I want to do is move, but there’s nothing that will satisfy” the neighbors, said Enyart, who has lived on Ludlow Street for 15 years.

Enyart was placed under citizen’s arrest in June by a neighbor. She was convicted in February by a jury for disturbing the peace of her neighbors.

Orange County Superior Court Judge Glenda Sanders sentenced her Wednesday to 10 days in jail, five days’ community service and three years’ probation, and ordered her to pay various fees and give the radio to charity.

Garden Grove police said they have been called to her home 34 times since February 1999 on various complaints.

“It takes people to get so fed up before they want to step up and start making citizen’s arrests and are willing to go to court,” said Garden Grove Police Lt. Scott Hamilton. “It finally came to that in this case.”

Enyart said she keeps the dial on a Christian program from 9 to 10:30 a.m. to learn about the Bible, faith and family issues while she does a load of laundry daily in the garage. Deputy Dist. Atty. Eya Garcia said Enyart tuned in from 8 to 11 a.m.

From 2 to 3 p.m., Enyart said, she listened to talk show host Laura Schlessinger while doing household chores before the children got home from school.

“I wanted to put something good and healthy in my brain while I did my mundane work,” said Enyart, whose six children range from 2 months to 17 years. “ ‘Sesame Street’ doesn’t do it for me after a while. It wasn’t malicious or willful. I just wanted adult interaction.”

But neighbors said the noise was unbearable. It blared louder than a blower or lawnmower, said resident Daisy Matoi.

“We’re so embarrassed,” she said. “We didn’t want to do this but

“It’s a sad day. I think it was a small, nominal issue, but the neighbors wanted to send her a message,” said Enyart’s husband, Tom, 48, a Federal Aviation Administration manager.