Bryan Whitman, a career Pentagon public affairs official, has been charged with three counts of misdemeanor theft in an odd confrontation the Washington Post dubbed "the latest example of the District's perpetual parking wars."
The 58-year-old Whitman was picked up on a neighbor's security camera removing the license plates from a car belonging to the neighbor's nanny. That was after a note was left on the nanny's windshield, according to the Post, that warned "I know you are misusing this visitor pass to park here daily. If you do not stop I will report it."
Whitman was named Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for PA in 2010 after working media operations at the Pentagon and serving as a senior spokesman. A former US Army officer, he was director of government affairs and PA for the USO in Washington prior to the Pentagon.
The Post reported Whitman agreed to a deal to pay $1,000 restitution and perform 32 hours of community service in exchange for the charges being dropped in 10 months. He remains on the job.
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