The Nation - News from Dec. 28, 1988

The U.S. attorney’s office has been given preliminary results of an internal probe into the Washington Police Department’s handling of drug allegations against a man visited several times last week by Mayor Marion Barry Jr., Police Chief Maurice Turner Jr. said in a statement. The investigation was intended to determine whether former city employee Charles Lewis offered drugs to a maid at a hotel in exchange for sex, how the Police Department responded to the maid’s complaint and what the mayor was doing in Lewis’ room at the hotel. The Washington Post, in today’s editions, quoted sources as saying that two police detectives spoke with the mayor’s security officer at the hotel Thursday just before they were called back from an attempt to buy drugs from Lewis.