An attorney from Northern California has been charged with spray-painting a boat at Newport Harbor on the Southern California coast—causing an estimated $50,000 in damage—and then getting into a scuffle with the police officers sent to arrest him. Kristoffer Steven Mayfield, 43, had allegedly spray-painted a sailboat inside and out, and was hurling objects into the bay at Marina Park in Newport Beach, when Orange County Sheriff’s Department deputies arrived on the scene on Dec. 29 around 11:16 a.m. Sgt. Dennis Breckner told The Epoch Times that when Mayfield saw the deputies, he attempted to escape in the boat, which did not belong to him—and the deputies tried to stop him. “He was attempting to untie the vessel, so that he could launch,” Breckner said. “The deputies stopped him from doing that.” During the ensuing struggle, Mayfield allegedly assaulted a deputy, forcing the officers to radio for backup. Eventually, additional …