Former D.C. Mayor Barry Charged With Stalking

File - District of Columbia Mayor Marion Barry leaves U.S. District Court in Washington in this Aug....

File - District of Columbia Mayor Marion Barry leaves U.S. District Court in Washington in this Aug. 11, 1990 file photo. According to United States Park Police Barry was arrested Saturday July 4, 2009 in Washington after a woman flagged down an officer and complained that Barry was stalking her. Barry was charged with misdemeanor stalking and released. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

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Police say former Washington Mayor Marion Barry has been arrested and charged with stalking a woman.

The United States Park Police said Barry, a current D.C. Council member, was arrested Saturday in Washington after a woman flagged down an officer and complained Barry was stalking her. Barry was charged with misdemeanor stalking and released.

Barry's spokeswoman, Natalie Williams, said Sunday that the accusation was "baseless."

She says Barry plans to fight the charge and said the accuser is a 40-year-old woman Barry had helped financially.

Barry served four terms as mayor. In his third, he was videotaped in 1990 in a hotel room smoking crack cocaine in an FBI sting. He served six months in prison and in 1994 regained the mayor's office.

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