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October 06, 2005

Evidence!

It's been a bad week for Wallace Moody.

The 39-year-old North Philadelphia man was abducted early Wednesday morning, beaten severely (Moody Statement Obtained by PW) and then released by his captors last night.

Now he's in jail. How'd that happen?

Around 3:15 p.m. today Moody was driven up to his home in the 6700 block of N. Third St. in the company of three city detectives and a state parole officer.

In a bizarre little tableau, the badly bruised Moody tried for 15 minutes to help officers get into his house.

By all appearances, it seemed as if Moody's locks had been changed.

At any rate, Moody and city detectives eventually removed a window screen and sent a little girl scooting through the opening to unlock a door from the inside.

Maybe 20 minutes later a detective emerged bearing three bags of evidence. And about 20 minutes after that? Wallace Moody himself was escorted out in cuffs and taken into custody on an apparent parole violation from a previous drug charge.

Detectives on the scene declined to answer questions.

Police public affairs would only confirm Moody was arrested.

Police are still searching for a link between Moody's abduction and the slaying the night before of Beanie Sigel's stepfather Sam Derry.

Moody was a co-defendant of Derry's brother Kent in a 1999 drug dealing arrest.

A high-ranking police official suggested to PW that with Moody in custody officers will enjoy greater leverage in their discussions with him.

In Moody's statement to police last night he gave no indication there was any link between himself, Sam Derry or the rapper Beanie Sigel, whom he said he knew "just from his music."

Posted by steve at October 6, 2005 09:00 PM

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