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Posted
Thursday, June 19, 2008 7:10 PM
| By
Christopher Beam
It’s only fitting that the most bizarre press conference of
this political season had an equally bizarre coda. Larry Sinclair, the man who
claims to have had a naughty encounter with Barack Obama back in 1999, stood at
a podium at the National Press Club, rattling off a litany of increasingly detailed minutiae
about the incident before taking questions and exiting the building. He was arrested
on his way out.
Sinclair’s rap sheet is well-documented.
He has been charged with everything from larceny to theft to forgery, and drew
a 16-year prison sentence in Colorado
in 1987. He was released in 1999. Now it looks like he’ll be facing a new
charge: Larceny, this time in Delaware.
Two members of the U.S. Marshals’ Regional Fugitive
Task Force took him into custody after the press conference was over, says
his lawyer, Montgomery
Blair Sibley. The extradition hearing was scheduled for late this
afternoon. If Sinclair gets bail, he can travel to Delaware himself to turn himself in to
authorities. If not, he’ll have to travel in federal custody.
Sibley said he believes someone tipped off the Delaware authorities. “Obviously,
Larry’s presence in D.C. was not a surprise or secret,” he said. “They put two
and two together.”
He said he didn’t know the specific charge, but was told it
was some form of larceny.
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