By Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Maxwell Book
BBC - Honduras - CIA Trial Book - NY Mag
SDNY EXCLUSIVE, August 18 – A man who escaped from Saint Elizabeth's Hospital in Washington DC was arrested and presented in Federal court in Manhattan on August 18. Inner City Press was there.
U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York Magistrate Judge Barbara C. Moses was presiding. The escapee's name was David John Mullin, who in 1983 took a hostage at ABC News in DC and demanded to see the "top reporter" and go on the air for the nightly newscast.
Instead he was arrested. This gave rise to August 30, 1983 headlines like "Gunman Enters ABC Studios," here.
Nearly thirty nine years later on June 3, 2022 a warrant was issued for his arrest for escaping from St. Elizabeth's Hospital, which opened in 1855 under the name Government Hospital for the Insane, the first federally operated psychiatric hospital in the US.
On August 18, Mullin was apprehended near 251 West 80th Street on Manhattan's Upper West Side, with prescription medication bottles in his name.
The request to Judge Moses was to "Return Acquitee to Saint Elizabeth's Hospital; Do Not Bring to Court or DC Jail."
Judge Moses obliged, and the US Marshals - one of whom was summoned into the Magistrate Judge's robing room behind the courtroom - under took the return of Mullins to St. Elizabeth's Hospital.
The SDNY case is US v. Mullin, 22-mj-6805 (Moses).
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