A few years ago, Edward “Jack” Barry’s car was broken into on a work trip to Portland, and a couple of his IDs were stolen. The police gave him a case number, and he replaced what was taken. He didn’t think much more of it.
In July, the bizarre consequence of that theft arrived at his Tacoma home with a pounding knock on his door. It was the U.S. Marshals Service, and they had a warrant for Barry’s arrest.
Barry repeatedly asked the marshals what the warrant was for, he recalled in a recent interview with The News Tribune, but they wouldn’t let him read it. One told him something happened with a crowbar in Portland, which made Barry chuckle. He said that was fanciful. But it didn’t matter what Barry had to say. He was handcuffed in his front yard with his wife and toddler nearby and taken in an unmarked SUV to the Pierce County Jail…