Condit Brother Wanted for Parole Violation

W A S H I N G T O N, July 19 -- One of Rep. Gary Condit's two brothers is wanted in both Florida and California and has been jailed from coast to coast for a wide range of offenses.

Police in Monroe County, Fla., have had a warrant out for the arrest of Darrell Condit, 49, since 1997, state law enforcement sources say. He is wanted for violating parole.

Darrell Condit also has been wanted by police in Stanislaus County, Calif., since December 1999, when an arrest warrant was issued for drug charges that carry a possible four-year prison term.

California's Department of Corrections confirmed Darrell is the congressman's brother.

Washington police have made no indication that Darrell Condit figures into their search for Chandra Levy, who vanished without a trace in the nation's capital on May 1. But police officials say they are ruling out no potential leads in a case that remains a true mystery. Rep. Condit, D-Calif., has been a focus of investigators searching for Levy, but police insist he is not a suspect in her disappearance.

Darrell Condit has been in and out of prisons since at least the 1970s. Prison records show he served time for forgery of government checks at federal prisons in Oklahoma, Colorado and California between 1976 and 1982.

He later made his way into California's penal system. California's Department of Corrections confirmed he was last paroled in July 1993 after making his way in and out of prison for car theft and various narcotics posession convictions between 1985 and 1993.

In Florida, Darrell Condit has been in and out of jail throughout the 1990s right up until at least January of this year. He served time in Key West, Fort Lauderdale and Broward County for charges ranging from narcotics possession to battery to driving under the influence, records show.

The congressman's brother, who according to state records traveled at times under the name "Stanley Johnnie Buchanan," was last arrested in February for allegedly possessing under 20 grams of marijuana. Arresting officers were apparently unaware of the outstanding warrant, as they did not contact Monroe County Police.