An angry Rochester Mayor Lovely Warren called the timing of her husband’s arrest politically and racially motivated in a brief appearance Thursday at City Hall. The mayor told waiting reporters “Things are not that different from then 1860s and the 1950s,” and said her opponents will “try anything to break me.”
State Police arrested the mayor’s husband, Timothy Granison, on Wednesday and a search was conducted of the couple’s home on Woodman Park. Granison was driving a car with another man who had an unlicensed handgun, and the car contained what troopers call a substantial amount of cocaine. They say Granison is one of seven people arrested after what District Attorney Sandra Doorley called a seven month wiretap invedstigation of a mid-level drug distribution ring.
Doorley says Granison was not originally a target of the investigation, but wiretap evidence later showed he was involved in the drug operation. She said it was not political.
But Mayor Warren says the timing is suspicious, coming a month before her Democratic primary election with City Council Member Malik Evans. She asks why she was emailed by the New York Times for reaction just as her home was being raided, and why her husband’s next court date is June 21st, one day before the primary.
The raid on the mayor’s home turned up another unregistered pistol, and a long gun that is being checked to see if it complies with the state assault rifle law. The court date of June 21 was assigned after Tim Granison’s lawyer requested a one-month delay so he could finish work on another case out-of-state.
Warren says she and Granison have a separation agreement and she has done nothing wrong.
An angry Rochester Mayor Lovely Warren called the timing of her husband’s arrest politically and racially motivated in a brief appearance Thursday at City Hall. The mayor told waiting reporters “Things are not that different from then 1860s and the 1950s,” and said her opponents will “try anything to break me.”
State Police arrested the mayor’s husband, Timothy Granison, on Wednesday and a search was conducted of the couple’s home on Woodman Park. Granison was driving a car with another man who had an unlicensed handgun, and the car contained what troopers call a substantial amount of cocaine. They say Granison is one of seven people arrested after what District Attorney Sandra Doorley called a seven month wiretap invedstigation of a mid-level drug distribution ring.
Doorley says Granison was not originally a target of the investigation, but wiretap evidence later showed he was involved in the drug operation. She said it was not political.
But Mayor Warren says the timing is suspicious, coming a month before her Democratic primary election with City Council Member Malik Evans. She asks why she was emailed by the New York Times for reaction just as her home was being raided, and why her husband’s next court date is June 21st, one day before the primary.
The raid on the mayor’s home turned up another unregistered pistol, and a long gun that is being checked to see if it complies with the state assault rifle law. The court date of June 21 was assigned after Tim Granison’s lawyer requested a one-month delay so he could finish work on another case out-of-state.
Warren says she and Granison have a separation agreement and she has done nothing wrong.