CLEVELAND, May 17 (UPI) -- Prosecutors are reviewing the arrest of a weekend Cleveland TV news anchor at a crime scene after he arranged to interview a potential witness.
WEWS-TV anchorman Curtis Jackson was asked several times to leave the boundaries of a crime scene while covering the suspicious death of a 74-year-old man Sunday.
"He refused to obey the lawful order of police," Maple Heights, Ohio, Police Chief Rich Maracz told the Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Jackson had agreed to conduct an off-camera interview with a woman who called suburban police at her apartment away from the scene because she did not want to appear on the news.
As he accompanied the woman, an officer asked him to leave. The anchorman requested the officer's name and was taken into custody for obstructing justice, handcuffed and frisked, the station's news director said.
Jackson was not charged and was released from the police station early Monday.
The county coroner ruled the elderly man's death was from natural causes.
