The Duke Lacrosse Accuser Heading To The Gray Bar Hotel
Thursday, February 18, 2010 at 10:20AM 
Crystal Gale Magnum(FLP Opinion) - In a shocking development, Durham, NC police have arrested Duke lacrosse accuser Crystal Gale Mangum and charged her with attempted first-degree murder, five counts of arson, assault and battery, communicating threats, three counts of misdemeanor child abuse, injury to personal property, identity theft and resisting a public officer.
I have to say, I didn't see this coming. Here is the detail:
Shortly after 11:30 p.m., police received a 911 call about a domestic dispute at 2220 Lincoln St. Authorities said they believe the call came from one of the three children inside the house.
When officers arrived, they found Mangum and her boyfriend, Milton Walker, 33, fighting. According to police documents, Mangum scratched, punched and threw objects at Walker and told him, "I'm going to stab you, (expletive)!"
She then went into a bathroom and set his clothes on fire in the bathtub, police said. Officers called the fire department to put out the flames. No one was injured.
Milton was not charged in the incident, police said. The three children inside the house, ages 3, 9 and 10, were not injured.
Police charged Mangum with identity theft because she gave them a fake name, "Marella Mangum," and age, authorities said. She also resisted the officers who responded to the scene, according to police documents.
Mangum was being held in the Durham County Jail on no bond and was scheduled to appear in court Thursday morning. She has been ordered to have no contact with Walker.
Mangum was a student at North Carolina Central University in 2006 and also worked as an exotic dancer when she performed her stripper act at a Duke lacrosse party. While there, she claimed that three white members of the team trapped her inside a bathroom and raped and sexually assaulted her. The players were subsequently arrested and indicted based on her account.
The media had a field day with the incident and essentially prosecuted the case in the public domain before it even came to trial.
The three Duke players were eventually exonerated after the North Carolina attorney general dismissed the case based on lack of evidence, but not before spending millions in attorney fees and watching their beloved lacrosse team eliminated by the university.
I guess Crystal getting sent up to the big house is just more proof that what goes around comes around.
Have a nice ride hooker! You've earned it!
Reader Comments (10)
Ah, this can't be true. This poor girl is being railroaded. Just like those rich Duke punks railroaded her. I'm ready to march. Let's go!
I'm with you Hall. This is nothing but a set-up. This upstanding woman would never do such a thing.
Once again, an example of the man gettin' over.
I'm shocked, just shocked and appaiied at this allocation on a fine outstanding young lady...
The Rev. Al will be on this faster then skipping out on a dinner check... It's all clear to the
Dawg and Rev.Al, that this fine lady was just preparing to take a hot bath...
I say,"drop the charges". Anybody who admits to being HER boyfriend, needs to have the s**t beat out of him.
Rave on Brother HB, truer word were never spoken...You think he played Lacrosse somewhere..
Hot damn another tennet of the state....
Sorry folk's , this make twice today that I have made a double post....To much "Sugga" in my coffee..
ANOTHER Obama supporter!
Sorry, I had confused her with a Rhodes Scholar in our program.
all i's and teef wif a tertl nek and air blowin thru