What was the involvement of Deputy Marshall Abbott in a recent San Diego noise complaint?
According to guests, the reception for candidate Francine Busby was interrupted by “a vulgar person shouting obscenities from behind the bushes.” Someone called in a noise complaint. The Sheriff’s Office dispatched the large force under the command of Deputy Marshall Abbott. Abbott approached hostess Shari Barman to inquire about the complaint. No doubt thinking of the polite fellow who had hurled epithets at the gathering earlier, Barman replied with an epithet of her own. Deputy Abbott “told me I was under arrest, grabbed my right arm, twisted it behind me and threw me on the ground,” Barman recalled later. When Stratton urged Abbott to take care because the 60-year-old woman had shoulder surgery, the deputy “knocked her to the ground,” continues Barman. Sources: http://www.lewrockwell.com/blog/lewrw/archives/028686.
ENCINITAS — The woman arrested for alleged battery on a sheriff’s deputy and resisting an officer at a fundraiser for Democratic congressional candidate Francine Busby in Cardiff By The Sea said today the incident might be politically motivated, provoked by a heckler who was outside the home. Shari Barman, 60, said Deputy Marshall Abbott’s “unprofessional behavior” was also at fault for the “shocking” incident Friday night on Rubinstein Avenue. The deputy, acting on a noise complaint, arrested Barman for allegedly hitting him when he responded to the house. Barman, who is well known in local tennis circles and is the partner of Acura Classic co-founder Jane Stratton, was booked into the Vista Detention Facility and released Saturday morning. In a statement e-mailed to reporters, Barman denied hitting the deputy, who has been with the department for two years. The event in the home she shares with Stratton was to raise funds for Busby, who has twice unsuccessfully run for the congressio
ENCINITAS — Francine Busby says she will demand an explanation from the Sheriff’s Department about deputies breaking up a fundraising party held for her in Cardiff and arresting the host. The party was Friday night in the 1300 block of Rubenstein Avenue, the home of Shari Barman, a Busby supporter. It ended with Barman, 60, being arrested and jailed on suspicion of battery on a peace officer, and resisting, delaying and obstructing a peace officer. Pam Morgan, 62, a Rancho Santa Fe resident and one of the guests, also was arrested and taken to the Encinitas Sheriff’s Station, where she was cited for resisting, delaying and obstructing a peace officer. Other partygoers were doused with pepper spray, and seven deputies, a sergeant and a helicopter were dispatched to the neighborhood of expensive homes. Busby, Barman, guests at the party and a Sheriff’s Department spokesman provided varying accounts of what happened. Busby, 58, a Democrat seeking the 50th Congressional District seat in 20
