The Region - News from April 10, 1987

A 19-year-old Yucca Valley man was convicted of felony assault with a deadly weapon on a police officer for his role in a beach riot last Labor Day weekend in Huntington Beach. Sean C. Boles told an Orange County Superior Court jury that he picked up a bottle to keep anyone from using it as a weapon while the melee was in progress on Aug. 31, 1986. But Huntington Beach undercover Officer Lt. Charles Poe, who arrested him, testified that Boles not only threw the bottle at a line of police officers, but yelled “kill the pigs” and later picked up a discarded lock and threw that, too. Boles was acquitted of a misdemeanor assault charge arising out of his arrest. Judge Robert C. Todd earlier dismissed a charge of inciting a riot. Boles could be sentenced to up to five years in prison. But Deputy Dist. Atty. Chris Evans said Boles has no previous record and thus could be sentenced to time in the Orange County Jail and probation.