St. Louis lawyer charged with hindering prosecution of wanted woman
A St. Louis lawyer has been arrested on charges that he is helping to hide a woman who is wanted on drug charges.
Bryan Christopher Edwards, 44, was charged Thursday with one count of hindering prosecution, although additional charges are expected, the St. Louis Daily Journal.
Edwards was charged in connection with the disappearance of a woman who was facing state and federal drug charges. She walked away from a residential treatment facility in St. Louis last month, and is now wanted on a warrant for allegedly violating probation.
Police say Edwards, who represented the woman in two drug possession cases, also had an intimate relationship with her while she was incarcerated in the county jail.
According to the charges, Edwards has maintained contact with the woman even though he knows she absconded from probation and is wanted on a felony warrant. The charge states that he has also talked with her by phone and has taken her shopping.
The woman’s mother has also told police that Edwards won’t tell her where her daughter is because he knows she would have her daughter arrested.
Edwards worked as a journalist before becoming a lawyer, according to his website.
