A BROOKLYN PROSECUTOR FACES DRUG CHARGES

An assistant Brooklyn district attorney was arrested outside Madison Square
Garden on Thursday night on charges of possession of marijuana and hashish,
the police said early yesterday.

The assistant district attorney, Jason Friedman, 30, was arrested by
narcotics officers from the Midtown South precinct about 9:30 P.M. on a
night when Jimmy Page and Robert Plant, the surviving members of Led
Zeppelin, were performing in a reunion concert at the Garden. Also arrested
were William Rumbold, 32, of Rochester; Michael Krebs, 30, of Brooklyn;
Michael Chrumba, 32, of Huntington Station, N.Y., and Scott Rawiszer, 32,
of Suffern, N.Y., said Officer Dennis Laffin, a Police Department
spokesman.

Officer Laffin said police officers observed the five passing a marijuana
cigarette and smoking it. When officers approached, Friedman tossed a bag
and metal object onto the ground, Officer Laffin said. That bag contained
hashish and the metal object was Friedman's district attorney's shield,
Officer Laffin said. Investigators speaking on the condition of anonymity
said that it was the first time in recent memory that someone from a
district attorney's office had been arrested on drug charges.

Checked-by: (Joel W. Johnson)