Sherwood flap heats up (pic of mistress included)

Times Leader ^ | 5/6/2005 | KEVIN AMERMAN

[Born Conservative]

Maryland woman hires attorney, says cops refuse to give her copy of her 911 call.

WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Maryland woman who told authorities U.S. Rep. Don Sherwood choked her in his Washington apartment has hired a law firm and says police have refused to give her a copy of her 911 call.

Cynthia Ore, 29, of Rockville, said she initially made the request months ago, but is pursuing it now after being encouraged by friends and family members to take legal action.

In an interview Wednesday, Ore said she believes Washington, D.C., police were more concerned about the welfare of Sherwood, a Republican from Tunkhannock, when they responded to his apartment at 1 p.m. Sept. 15.

“Who would you help, a young girl or a member of Congress?” asked Ore, who said she has lived in fear since the incident. “He lives in the Hill House so they knew. It’s mostly congressmen and also senators.”

Attorney Darcy A. Shoop confirmed Thursday that the Rockville, Md., law firm she works for has been hired by Ore, but Shoop wouldn’t comment further on the law firm’s plans.

Ore said several police officers responded to the scene and were coming into and out of the apartment. She said the officers removed Sherwood from the apartment, then took him into his bedroom, while an officer talked with her.

While inside the apartment, the officers walked around the apartment and dug through her personal items, such as clothes she had there, she said.

A Washington Metropolitan Police report states that Ore told police she locked herself in a bathroom and called 911 after Sherwood “choked her for no apparent reason” while giving her a backrub in his D Street apartment.

Sherwood, 64, told police he was giving Ore a backrub when she “jumped up” and ran to the bathroom, the report stated.

Police said they saw no visible injuries on Ore and had trouble getting to the bottom of the story.

“Based on interviews with both parties and no physical evidence of injury to (Ore), there was no probable cause to make an arrest or reasonable cause to believe (Ore) was assaulted,” the report stated.

“Both parties have left out significant information or are not willing to discuss in detail what actually happened,” the police incident report says, noting that Ore “did not seem to be of sound mind.”

Ore admits she was frazzled when talking with police.

“I was shocked. I was frozen,” said Ore, who works in her family’s restaurant business.

“It was not my purpose to send him to prison. I was just trying to get out of there OK.”

Ore said Sherwood, a married man, was angry because she showed up to the apartment late that afternoon.

While police say she “changed the subject several times,” Ore insists she never withdrew her statement to police and believes they didn’t give her complaint proper attention.

Sherwood has previously declined to discuss specifics of the incident and described Ore as a casual acquaintance. On Tuesday Sherwood issued an apology “for the pain and embarrassment I have caused my family and my supporters.”

Ore disputed Sherwood’s characterization of their relationship and said they have been lovers since 1999, when they met at a Young Republicans meeting.

The officer who wrote the report, Nicholas Deciutiis, has not commented on the incident.

Speaking in general terms on Thursday, a spokesman for the department said officers should know where high-ranking officials live, but he said those officials do not receive preferential treatment.

“Nobody’s above the law,” said Master Patrol Officer Maurice Thompson. “It behooves you to know who the high-ranking people are. Sometimes things are handled more delicately because it could draw media attention. If someone’s dog ran away, no one would care. But if the president’s dog ran away, it would draw media attention.”

Ore says she was denied a copy of the 911 tape by police in November. The Times Leader also has asked for a copy of the tape and was told it would not be released without a court order.

Sherwood did not return a call Thursday for comment. An attempt to reach Sherwood or his wife at their home on Sherwood Lane in Tunkhannock Township Thursday afternoon was also unsuccessful. A woman who identified herself as Sherwood’s sister-in-law said no one was at the home. She declined further comment.

[sphinx]

Ease off about her looks, guys. She's a Marylander. That's how they look. Throwback state.

And they drive worse than they look.

[Hillary's Lovely Legs]

Sherwood claims he barely knows her and that he was angry when she showed up at the apartment....

Yet.....

He gives her a backrub and she has clothes at his apartment.


Things that make you go hmmmmmmmmm.

[NEPA]

This morning I heard a bit of a radio station interview from yesterday (on Newswatch 16). She has one of those ditsy Marilyn Monroe voices. She sounds very slow, almost retarded. She was saying "I'm his lady, he loves me."

But she sounds so ditsy I don't see how anyone could take her seriously. Maybe that's why the story has been so slow to develop.

[cgbg]

This is the first I have seen of this story.

With few facts I am trying to keep an open mind.

But there are too many Congresscritters who can't resist the DC babe patrol. They get used to lying to their constituents so lying to their spouses seems like a minor infraction.

His wife should be hiring a private investigator now to see what this guy has been up to for the last six years. If he is clean she should hold a press conference and say so. If he is dirty she should serve him with divorce papers and then hold a press conference. :-)

If more DC wives took this approach there would be a whole lot less of this sort of stuff going on in DC.

I have always argued this is a public policy matter because any behavior that could make a politician subject to blackmail can compromise his responsibilities to his constituents.

We have a right to know. We should know. We should accept nothing less.

[notigar]

I think he admitted he wasn't clean. whether he tried to strangle is another issue.

[L.N. Smithee]

The number of posts saying Ore's a bow-wow amuse me, because I bet if she was a middle school teacher humping a 14-year-old, they would all say, "I'd bang her!"

[L.N. Smithee]

I'll take the little brunette from "JAG" any day of the week (I forget her name).

You're referring to Catherine Bell.

I don't think there is a darn thing wrong with Loni Anderson (she's all real except for the blondeness). Pam Anderson looks better without her implants, but what's really shocking about Pam is that her new sitcom (Stacked) is REALLY good! But I agree with you; given a choice (and why am I never asked???), I would take Bell over either Anderson.

I've never watched JAG and came across it by accident last week. WHOA! They got some good looking women on that show! I'm going to have to check it out in syndication!

I'm sooooo lonely...

[bannie]

It's the miles man not the age!!!!

Always check the teeth.

(I never figured out why some people "lie back" about their ages. "Lie ahead." If she had, we'd all be saying that she looks pretty good for a 65-year-old!)

[mad_as_he$$]

lol

[Hatteras]

"I'll take the little brunette from "JAG" any day of the week (I forget her name)."

I swear Harm must really have been a homo.

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

Confederate Railroad kinda woman.

Shoulda seen the looks on the faces of my Dad and Mom,
When I showed up at the door with a date for the senior prom.
They said: "Well, pardon us son, she ain't no kid.
"That's a cocktail waitress in a Dolly Parton wig.
I said: "I know it dad, ain't she cool, that's the kind I dig."

[astounded]

I've had that thought, too. That picture of Ms Bell is hotttttt!!!