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Barry Drug Allegation Stuns D.C. Officials

The Washington Post | March 25, 2002 | Copyright

The Buzzard Point neighborhood where U.S. Park Police said they encountered former D.C. mayor Marion Barry sitting in a parked car is a desolate swath of Southwest Washington dotted with warehouses, industrial plants and parking lots.

Asked yesterday what the 66-year-old four-term mayor was doing there Thursday night, Barry's attorney, Frederick D. Cooke Jr., said: "I didn't ask him why he was at Buzzard Point. I don't know what he was doing sitting there."

Police conducted a field test on substances found in Barry's car, and it came up positive for traces of cocaine and…

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