(Marion) Barry Taken Into Custody, Police Say

[Ian David]

Source: Washington Post

By Martin Weil
Washington Post Staff Writer
Sunday, July 5, 2009

D.C. Council member Marion Barry was taken into custody last night by the U.S. Park Police, a police official said.

"It's my understanding that he was taken into custody," Park Police Chief Sal Lauro said in a brief interview. Lauro said he believed that Barry (D-Ward 8) was picked up in the Anacostia Park area.

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WRC (Channel 4) broadcast a report last night saying that the matter possibly involved domestic harassment or stalking. The report was based on unnamed police sources.

Barry's attorney, Frederick D. Cooke Jr., said last night that he had heard a "rumor" that Barry had been detained or arrested. Cooke said he had just returned from watching fireworks and was trying to "find out what's going on."



Read more: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/20...

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Bwahahahahahaha!
Family Values my ass!

See also:

July 5, 2009
Marion Barry Arrested for Umpteenth Time
Marion Barry, the git that keeps on giving:
http://news.lavenderliberal.com/2009/07/05/marion-barry... /



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[MountainLaurel]

1. Stalking is a new one for him, I think

I wonder who the poor target of the Mayor for Life was?

[marylanddem]

2. Wonder what he was high on while stalking...

I bet he'll blame it on the victim; remember "bitch set me up!" ?

[psychopomp]

8. Uh, actually the "bitch" did set him up

or had you forgotten?

[Aragorn]

9. I remember

but I just can't believe any black politician would be the object of ongoing harassment!

[Alexander]

13. She made him smoke crack on camera?

That's a new one.

[Ian David]

15. Do you know how hot a woman would have to be to get me to smoke crack?

Let's put it this way.

If she's smoking crack, she ain't gonna be hot enough.

[psychopomp]

18. No, she'd been rolled by the Feds and turned FBI informant

and then helped them in their sting operation on DC's second mayor.

[JayMusgrove]

3. Maybe they can keep that man in custody

for the rest of his life.

Sick!

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[Bluenorthwest]

5. Ah yes!

Mayor McCrack, who bad mouths gay people and calls his own district bigots as part of the package.

[Dappleganger]

6. Bitch set me up!

[AngryAmish]

20. you beat me!

[TommyO]

7. AP Update

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5iu8F7...

The United States Park Police said Barry, a current D.C. Council member, was arrested Saturday in Washington after a woman flagged down an officer and complained that Barry was stalking her.
Barry was charged with misdemeanor stalking and released.
A message left seeking comment from a spokeswoman for Barry wasn't immediately returned early Sunday.
Barry served four terms as mayor. In his third, he was videotaped in 1990 in a hotel room smoking crack cocaine in an FBI sting. He served six months in prison and in 1994 regained the mayor's office.

[donco6]

10. And gay marriage is the real problem, right, Marion?

Jeez.

[WriteDown]

11. D.C. Councilmember Marion Barry Arrested for Stalking

Source: WAPO

D.C. Council member Marion Barry was arrested last night and charged with stalking a woman after the woman reported that Barry was "bothering her" as the two traveled in separate vehicles in Anacostia Park, police said this morning.

At about 8:45 p.m., a woman traveling near the intersection Good Hope Road and Anacostia Drive flagged down a U.S. Park Police officer to report that a man in a vehicle nearby was stalking her, said Sgt. David Schlosser, a Park Police spokesman. That man, Schlosser said, was Barry.

The officer interviewed the woman and Barry, then arrested Barry and took him to the Park Police's Anacostia Station, Schlosser said. There a detective interviewed Barry again, and police charged him with a misdemeanor count of stalking. Barry was released and ordered to appear in court, likely sometime later this week, Schlosser said.

Schlosser declined to identify the woman or specify her relationship with Barry. He also declined to detail what Barry told officers regarding the incident....

Read more: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/20...

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It truly is amazing that he continues to get elected to political offices.

[Ian David]

16. Well, he's a conservative. We expect this kind of thing from him. n/t

[imdjh]

24. Piece of shit arrested in DC. Surprise! Surprise! Surprise! nt

[msanthrope]

12. Isn't he on parole from the tax evasion conviction? Shouldn't that

get him back to the pokey?

[mamaleah]

14. Is there a special cell with his name on it? Or does he get a frequent visitor coupon?

I mean, that would be the proper customer service thing to do for him.

[Freddie Stubbs]

17. Why in the world do DC voters keep electing this guy?

[valerief]

22. In the world of electronic voting, there is no answer to that question. nt

[Freddie Stubbs]

28. He has been winning elections despite his scandals long before electronic voting

[imdjh]

25. Thumbing their nose at Congress, mostly.

[Freddie Stubbs]

29. How is that working out for them?

[pepperbear]

19. damn it! this could have been so much worse! he could've been stalking another man...

and that would've been unnatural.

[ohio2007]

21. ..another man from -> Argentina lol

[RFKHumphreyObama]

23. Which, judging by his past history...

Should ensure his comfortable re-election

[sarcasmo]

26. Add stalking to the list of Family Values, adultery was added long ago.

[MountainLaurel]

27. WashPost Update: She was his ex-girlfriend

Even more family values from Barry

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/20...

[Freddie Stubbs]

30. I wonder if his current wife (his fourth) knew about the girlfriend