**** Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick Will Be Charged With Assaulting An Officer*******Mayor Kwame in Detroit sex scandal case ordered jailedDETROIT, Michigan (AFP) — The mayor of Detroit, Michigan, embroiled for months in a torrid sex scandal, was placed under arrest Thursday for violating a provision of his bond forbidding him from leaving the country.
A Detroit judge ordered embattled Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick jailed for a recent unauthorized trip he made to nearby Windsor, Canada, violating the terms of his bond.
His jailing seemed certain to ramp up efforts to force his resignation, which he so far has stubbornly resisted.
"I thought I made it clear to you that this court comes first in everything," Wayne County District Court Judge Ronald Giles told the beleaguered mayor in court shortly before ordering him detained.
For his part, the scandal-plagued mayor pleaded in court for another chance, explaining that he had made the unauthorized trip on city business.
"I don't believe that there is a person that's ever been through this process that respects it more than I do," Kilpatrick said, referring to the stress he has found himself under during months of legal proceedings.
Kilpatrick was indicted in March for lying under oath about an affair with his chief of staff and firing a police officer investigating reports of a wild party at the mayor's mansion.
All told, he faces eight felony counts ranging from conspiracy to perjury to misconduct in office to obstruction of justice.
The charges were filed after Kilpatrick abruptly instructed the city to settle a wrongful dismissal lawsuit by three police officers who said they were fired while investigating wrongdoing by the mayor and his security personnel.
Kilpatrick and former chief of staff Christine Beatty have been charged with perjury, obstruction of justice and misconduct in office.
The officers were awarded 8.4 million dollars after being sacked for investigating rumors that the mayor's wife interrupted a stripper party about six years ago at the mayor's office, local media reported.
Prosecutors accused Kilpatrick of obstruction of justice for settling the whistle-blower lawsuit in order to hide text message evidence of his affair.
Officials said Thursday that Kilpatrick would remain in jail until he either posts the full 75,000 dollars bond, or until his defense attorneys succeed in persuading a circuit court judge to overturn the decision.
