No Charges Filed Against Alleged Streisand Stalker

Prosecutors have refused to charge a tabloid photographer arrested after Barbra Streisand and husband James Brolin complained that they were being stalked.

Wendal Wall, 28, a Streisand neighbor who was arrested Saturday and held on $1 million bail, was released from the Malibu jail Tuesday after the district attorney’s office ruled “prosecution declined.”

Deputy Dist. Atty. Martin L. Herscovitz wrote on a one-page evaluation work sheet that there was “insufficient evidence” of stalking or credible threats and that Streisand and Brolin “are non-desirous of prosecution.”

“They felt jeopardized. The police felt that sense of jeopardy was warranted and they acted accordingly,” said Streisand’s publicist, Dick Guttman. The couple said Wall had been following them.

“You have a right under the law to do that,” said attorney Lawrence Longo, who represents Wall. Nearby, outside the jail, supporters carried placards and chanted “Free Wendal.”

Streisand and Brolin drove to a sheriff’s station Saturday afternoon when they noticed they were being followed by Wall in a van on U.S. 101, Deputy Cruz Solis said.

Several hours later, the couple was driving on Pacific Coast Highway near their Point Dume home when they spotted Wall again, allegedly following them near Zumirez Drive, the deputy said.

They flagged down a deputy and Wall was arrested and booked for investigation of stalking.