Dr. Berry probed for alleged anthrax connection by FBI, charged on four counts of domestic violence

Wellsville Daily Record ^ | August 6, 2004 | John Anderson

[Shermy]

Good reporting from the small local paper from Wellsville, New York. And they say this on their front page:

In today's Daily Reporter: Four stories including the full story on the arrest of Dr. Kenneth Berry for allegedly beating up four family members outside a hotel in New Jersey Thursday. Also, the Daily Reporter is working on a major connection with Dr. Berry and the FBI case. For more on this breaking story, see Friday's Daily Reporter, Sunday's Spectator and updates here on www.wellsvilledaily.com.

From the New Jersey Star-Ledger:

FBI searches houses tied to doctor from Jersey

Berry's father says Hatfill and Berry "know each other."

And the Ashbury Park Press:Anthrax case hits home

This morning's FR anthrax thread:

Man From Anthrax Probe Charged in Fight

[Shermy]

Ping.

[Shermy]

Also, the Daily Reporter is working on a major connection with Dr. Berry and the FBI case.

How does that read to you?

[eno_]

I must have missed the news item about the FBI apologising to Hatfill.

[Honestfreedom]

I was wondering about that myself. No mention of Hatifill. Is he supposed to have worked with this guy?

[Shermy]

I must have missed the news item about the FBI apologising to Hatfill.

Well, they could say he's Hatfill's delivery boy to the Princeton mail box.

Or maybe he was the one who fingered Hatfill early on via the BHR rumor campaign.

Something about the news paper quote about the upcoming story leads me to think Berry might have had a hand in the investigation. Too early to tell.

[okie01]

Good reporting from the small local paper from Wellsville, New York.

Agreed. Very professional reporting. Not only from the Wellsville Daily Record, but from the Asbury Park Press, as well.

One would hope that this represents work by young reporters, on their way up. Perhaps the profession will cleanse itself yet.

I'm not counting on it, though...

[Shermy]

MSM reporters tend to sing their own virtues and cleverness - which is undue.

[okie01]

MSM reporters tend to sing their own virtues and cleverness - which is undue.

They also tend to opine and assert, rather than report.

The Wellsville account, in particular, is a superb example of the reporter's craft.

[Servant of the 9]

Does the FBI really have anything this time or are they just destroying another life to cover for their cluelessness?

So9

[Dark Wing]

How does the FBI have jurisdiction on a local domestic disturbance?

Was the good doctor assaulting his wife with anthrax?

This looks to me like the FBI's pressure on the doctor is destroying his family life.

[NautiNurse]

the domestic disturbance was not related to the FBI raid. It just happened the same day while they were away from the house that was being raided. The local police made the arrest after a 911 call because Berry slugged his family members at a hotel.

[NautiNurse]

Thanks for the ping.

[Sacajaweau]

Well, we know this nice doctor has a bad temper. Could he have been antagonized by any of his kids or his wife to this point of fury??

The rule is: "Walk out the door. Don't hit anyone".

[Gritty]

Wotsa matta?

Did the Keystone Kops FBI run out of "leads" on Hatfill?

[Shermy]

Sounds like he's cracking.

Normally I'd jump and think (not say) maybe its a sign of "guilt" - but it could be pressure, could be "guilt" about something else.

I'm going to try to keep an eye on the Wellsville Daily Record this weekend if I can.

[NautiNurse]

there have been conflicting stories about whether he punched out his wife and kids, or his girlfriend and her daughter. Maybe there was a confrontation among the two groups.

The connection between Berry the doctor-pilot and Hatfill is going to be very interesting.

[piasa]

I'm not so sure. The way I read it, it sounds like the domestic situation could very well have been related. Sounds like the FBI not only searched the homes in Wellsville but also the parent's place in NJ. He and his family were at the folks' house in Chadwick Beach when the FBI showed up, and it sounds like they decided to leave the house while it was being searched and go to a hotel. Since it was the folks' house the parents may not have been very pleased about having the FBI dig through their stuff, and that along with everything else could have set off a family dispute.

While the searches in Wellsville were going on, sources told the Wellsville Daily Reporter that Berry was vacationing with his family at a home owned by his parents in Chadwick Beach in Dover Township, N.J., when the FBI showed up with a search warrant. Dr. Berry and his family allegedly left and went to a restaurant to eat before 9 a.m.
At 1:21 p.m., sources say Dr. Berry got into a fight with his wife and children at the White Sands Motel in Point Pleasant. Point Pleasant Police said one of the family members was injured and needed to be treated at the scene.

[piasa]

"They have been on him for three years. They have no leads," William Berry said from his farmhouse, near Danbury, Ct.

I am amazed... the way the press has played this for three years, the FBI was only looking at one guy, Hatfill. The other thirty 'persons of interest' went virtually unmentioned.

[Dante3]

Another article said the violence involved his girlfriend. Which was it -- wife or girlfriend?