PARK POLICE QUESTION FORMER MAYOR BARRY

The Buzzard Point neighborhood where U.S. Park Police said they encountered
former District of Columbia Mayor Marion Barry sitting in a parked car is a
desolate swath of Southwest Washington dotted with warehouses.

Asked Sunday what the 66-year-old four-term mayor was doing there Thursday
night, Barry's attorney, Frederick D. Cooke Jr., said: "I didn't ask him
why he was at Buzzard Point. I don't know what he was doing sitting there."

Police conducted a field test on substances found in Barry's car, and it
came up positive for traces of cocaine and marijuana. Barry was not
arrested after police determined that there was not a sufficient amount of
illegal drugs found to file charges.

Barry did not respond Sunday to messages left for him. Through Cooke he
maintained that he was not in possession of illegal drugs that night.

He also said the incident will not derail his plans to run for an at-large
seat on the D.C. Council this fall.