Barry ‘Slips Away’ to New Center
Mayor Marion Barry left a Florida substance abuse center Thursday after 31 days of treatment and entered a facility in South Carolina, where he may spend up to 30 more days, according to a statement issued here by the mayor’s office.
Barry, who was arrested on Jan. 18 on a cocaine charge and indicted Feb. 15 on three felony perjury and five misdemeanor cocaine possession charges, “slipped away” from the Hanley-Hazelden Center in West Palm Beach, Fla., and entered the Fenwick Hall facility near Charleston, S. C., the statement said.
The statement said Barry took “evasive action” to avoid the “horde of reporters” outside Hanley-Hazelden but did not give details on how he left undetected or when he entered Fenwick Hall.
“Please let the citizens know that I am doing well, and I thank God that I am alive,” Barry’s statement said. Barry, 53, is scheduled to be arraigned in Washington on Feb. 28.
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