A White House staffer was arrested Friday on charges of assault and reckless endangerment after allegedly threatening and shooting at a Capitol Hill police officer with whom she had been having sex, according to arrest records.
Barvetta Singletary, a special assistant to the President and House legislative affairs liaison, has been placed on unpaid leave and had her access to the White House revoked, a White House spokesperson told CNN on Monday.
Singletary was released Monday from jail in Prince George's County, Maryland, after posting a $75,000 bond, according to spokesman John Erzen of Maryland's state's attorney's office.
The incident began early Friday morning after Singletary texted the officer "asking him to come to her residence...for sexual intercourse," according to charging documents, which classified the incident as domestic violence.
After "a brief sexual encounter," Singletary began asking the officer about another woman he was dating and tried to access his cell phones.
Singletary then grabbed the officer's service weapon from a bag and pointed it at him, before firing one round toward him, documents say.
Oh yeah the last thing you want to do is discuss the other woman with a loaded gun within reach of the woman with whom you just had sex. That is Not Getting Shot 101.
Apparently Singletary tried to destroy the evidence by wiping down the gun, and is currently not allowed on White House grounds. Which I think is clearly the right call.
I would assume that ultimately she will lose her job, and if that police officer has a brain in his head, her boyfriend as well.
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