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Wed Jul 3, 2019, 05:15 AM Jul 2019

St. Louis Alderman Brandon Bosley Arrested, But Does Not Yet Face Charges

In theory, announcing your own arrest on Facebook could be seen as a power move. But in a two-sentence post to Facebook earlier today, Ward 3 Alderman Brandon Bosley announced his own recent run-in with police with a startling assertion: "Discipline your children or they will become victims or suspects."

Bosley ended the post — "[J]ust went to jail for it!"

The St. Louis Metropolitan Police confirmed this afternoon that they did, in fact arrest Bosley, even supplying RFT with a mugshot — but police spokesman Jack Wang declined to answer questions about the time, location and circumstances of Bosley's arrest. He referred those questions to the St. Louis Circuit Attorney's Office.

However, while Wang said that while warrants were indeed presented to the city's top prosecutor, "They were not issued at this time."

Read more: https://www.riverfronttimes.com/newsblog/2019/07/01/st-louis-alderman-brandon-bosley-arrested-but-does-not-yet-face-charges

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