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Darrell Best Charging Documents
Darrell Best Charging Documents
District of Columbia
United States of America
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DARRELL BEST
PDID: 702-890
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Case: 1:'15-mj-0029.1
Assigned To : Magistrate Judge Alan Kay
Assign. Date : StSDl,lS
Description: Criminal Complaint & Arrest
CRIMINAL COMPLAINT
I, the complainant in this case, state that the follo\Ying is true to the best
On or about the date(s)
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violated:
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Code Seclion
18 U.S,C. S 2251(a)
did knowingly employ, use, persuade, induce, entice, and coerce any minor,
to engage in sexually expliclt conduct for the purpose of producing any visual
depiction of such conduct by any means and facllity of interstate and forelgn
commerce,
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TEMENT OF FA
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I, Vincent Manning (hereinafter "Your Affiant"), being duly swom, depose and state
follows:
as
Your Affiant is an investigator with the Metropolitan Police Department and, as such' I
am charged with enforcing all laws in the District of Columbia. Your affiant has been a member
ofthe Metropotitan Police Department since February 2007. Your affiant has been assigned as
an Investigator since July of20l4, Your afliant has drafted affidavits in support ofboth arrest
and search wanants that have led to the recovery of crucial evidence resulting in the arrest and
convictions of multiple felons. Your affiant is currently assigned to investigate sexual and
physical abuse cases involving children. Your af'fiant has investigated other violent offenses
throughout my career with the Metropolitan Police Department. These investigations have
resuited in arrests and convictions ofsuspects in the District of Columbia Superior Court. I have
included in this affidavit facts which I believe are sufficient to support a probable cause {inding
for the issuance ofthe requested arrest warrant.
This affidavit is submitted in support of a complaint charging Darrell Best with
Production of Child Pomography, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 2251(a).
The facts and information contained in this affidavit are based upon my personal
krlowledge of the investigation and observations ofother law enforcement offrcers involved in
the investigation. This affidavit contains informalion necessary to support probable cause for
this complaint. It is not intended to include each and every fact and matter observed by me or
known to the Govemment.
Based on the investigation thus far, there is probable cause to believe that Danell Best
did knowingly employ, use, persuade, induce, entice, and coerce C-1, a minor female l6 years of
age, to engage in sexually explicit conduct for the purpose ofproducing any visual depiction of
such conduct, knowing and having reason to know that such visual depiction: would be
transpo*ed using any means and facility of interstate commerce or transported in or affecting
interstate commerce; or was produced using materials that have been mailed, shipped, or
transported in and affecting interstate or foreign commerce; or was transported using any means
and fbcility of interstate commerce or in and aft'ecting interstate commerce.
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sexual abuse took place at the defendant's church, located at 4410 Southem AYenue,
S.E,, in Washington,
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it to law enforcement.
On March 16,2015, the defendant was arrested and charged in Superior Court of the
District of Columbia with First Degree Sexual Abuse While Armed, Iirst Degree Sexual Abuse
of a Minor in a Significant Relationship, Second Degree Sexual Abuse of a Minor in a
Distlict of Columbia.
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Image #5:
presence of
On April 23,2015, the seven images described above were shown to C-l in the
ct her
the images and confirmed that theY
law enforcement. C-1 identified
C-l also stated that
C- l stated that Image #7 dePicts
C-1 further stated that the defendant took all ofthe photographs described
above and that they were taken at the defendant's church in the area next to his offrce.
that
Based on the above facts, Your Affiant submits that there is probable cause to believe
and
between on or ab o$ 2n3/2014 and on or about 02/l4l2ol5, within the District oicolumbia
elsewhere, Darrell Best committed the offense ofProduction of Child Pornography, in violation
of Title 18, United States Code, Section 2251(a).
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ALAN KAY
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