October
19 2009, Erick Williamson of Springfield was arrested for drinking coffee in
the nude in his kitchen. The idiocy
started when the wife of a police officer phoned her husband to complain that
she was looking into the victim’s house and saw him naked.
The
arrest, dubbed the Naked Guy case, made international headlines and, once
again, the Fairfax Police, made the county look ridiculous in the eyes of the
world. (The first time being the raids
on bars to search for drunks, the second being the "This ain’t America no
more" election day video recording)
By
their own admission, police raided the house, enforce, with guns drawn
("just in case we encountered a hostile individual," the officers
explained) and no warrant to enter the property where they found the culprit
asleep…with his pants on.
Pulled
outside on his lawn, a cop asked Williamson if he could take his picture. Williamson said no. The cop took the picture anyway and showed it
to the woman who had complained for positive identification, which they
got. They returned to the house and
arrested Williamson. It took a jury less
than twenty minutes to find Williamson not guilty.