Charges vs. Marion Barry dropped
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WASHINGTON - Federal prosecutors have dropped charges against former Washington mayor Marion Barry, who was accused of stalking his former girlfriend.
US Park Police arrested the current D.C. councilman Saturday on a stalking charge after they said the woman complained.
Barry’s lawyer denied the allegations and said Barry was arrested on the way home from a meal with the woman, Donna Watts-Brighthaupt.
Earlier this week the woman also released a statement that appeared to deny she had accused him of stalking.
The US attorney’s office said yesterday that it would not pursue the stalking charges after reviewing the evidence.
Barry served four terms as mayor. He was videotaped in 1990 smoking crack cocaine in an FBI sting but later regained the mayor’s office.
