Former D.C. mayor Marion Barry was arrested Saturday on charges of stalking a female acquaintance. Barry is scheduled to appear in court this Thursday.
Barry was arrested on Saturday after a woman, who Barry claims is a friend, flagged down a police officer and said that she was being chased by Barry in another car.
Barry was released on citation with a mandatory court appearance early Sunday morning. According to ABC News, a spokeswoman for Barry said “that the 40-year-old woman is somebody that Barry had helped financially during ‘various stages of instability’ in her life.”
Barry served four terms as mayor and is currently serving as a D.C. council member. He has publicly spoken against same-sex marriage in Washington, D.C. and called himself a “moral leader” earlier in the year at an anti-marriage equality protest in the nation’s capital.
This is not the first time Barry has been in trouble with the law. During his third term as mayor, Barry was videotaped smoking crack in a hotel room in 1990 during an FBI sting and is currently on probation in a federal tax evasion case.
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