Prince George’s County Executive Jack Johnson and his wife, County Councilmember Leslie Johnson, who were both arrested earlier today, have reportedly been charged with evidence tampering and the destruction and falsification of records this afternoon. WTOP quotes a source close to the U.S. Attorney’s Office who claims that the charges stem from an investigation into a developer who had sought Johnson’s involvement in a land deal near the Greenbelt Metro station.
The most interesting part of the story so far: the feds brought in a plumber to make sure that the couple didn’t flush anything important down the toilet before they executed a search warrant at the couple’s home — according to a court affidavit obtained by the Examiner’s Freeman Klopott, Johnson had told his wife to flush a $100,000 check from a developer down the drain this morning. Klopott also reports that the affidavit claims Ms. Johnson had $79,000 in cash in her underwear at the time of her arrest.