A Dip in the Pool Results in Charges Against Boxer-Clad Federal Prosecutor
A federal prosecutor in Miami was arrested Sunday afternoon after taking a dip in a pool in his boxer shorts and making an alleged getaway that involved some chase-scene-worthy fence jumping.
The prosecutor, Sean Cronin, was accused of mistakenly exposing more than his skivvies as he exited the pool at an outdoor bar, leading to complaints from a mom who shielded her daughter’s eyes and a call to police, the Miami Herald reports. Cronin was charged with lewd and lascivious exhibition and nonviolent obstruction of justice, the story says.
According to the police report cited in the article, bar employees tried to detain Cronin, who tried to make a getaway through a back exit. Cronin spotted an officer and “continued fleeing,” according to an affidavit, jumping over “multiple fences” in the process.
Cronin’s lawyer, Joel Denaro, told the Miami Herald that the charges are “beyond absurd.”
“He went swimming in his boxer shorts, for God’s sake,” Denaro said. “He did nothing wrong.” He added that Cronin paid his bar tab.
Cronin was in the news last year last year when a federal judge singled him out in an opinion imposing $600,000 in government sanctions in a prosecution against a Miami doctor accused of overprescribing pain medications. The judge criticized prosecutors’ “win-at-any-cost behavior” and said the government had secretly taped a defense lawyer without disclosing the recordings before trial. The ruling is on appeal.
