Young Kennedy in drug probe
NZPA-Reuter New York The New York Police De-' partment has said it is investigating whether David Kennedy, the 24-year-old son of the assassinated Senator Robert Kennedy, was in Harlem on Wednesday night to buy drugs. Mr Kennedy was robbed in the lobby of a seedy hotel in the black district that has a history of narcotics activity. The New York “Post” said yesterday that he had admitted to the police he had gone there to buy drugs. The “Post” story also al-i leged that the police had found marks on Mr Kennedy’s arm indicating possible heroin addiction, but j the police captain who ques- [ tioned him after the incident: denied seeing any such; marks. A police spokesman, faced with a barrage of questions, from the press, announced that an investigation was in progress. They said the police planned to interview Mr Kennedy, but did not know where he was. There w r as no immediate comment from the Washington office of Senator Edward
Kennedy, who maintains a I strong interest in the child- ■ ren of his two assassinated brothers. I David Kennedy, the fourth : oldest of Robert and Ethel • Kennedy’s 11 children, has i been living in New York : since dropping out of Boston College several years ago. I According to the police [ spokesmen, Mr Kennedy did not say in his original state- ■ ment why he was driving ' through Harlem in his ex- [ pensive car late at night. > The official police version of the incident quoted him ias saying that his car was 1 flagged down by two men and that he followed them to the hotel just to see what :they wanted. A third man joined them :; there and Mr Kennedy was i beaten and robbed of $3O of the $2OO he was carrying. The police arrested a man but Mr Kennedy could not [ identify him as one of those who assaulted him. In a search of the hotel, where arrests for drug pos- • session have been made in the past, the police said they i had found 25 envelopes of . heroin two floors above j where the fight took place.
Young Kennedy in drug probe
Press, 8 September 1979, Page 8
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