Media Crime Files: WJLA Anchor Makes News

And now, another another in a series of hard news stories related to what we see as a growing epidemic – a wave of crime sweeping across the broadcasting industry. These gritty tales of the darkside of the media nationwide, and the players behind these despicable acts, will appear as details become available. All details will remain UNCENSORED.
Autria Godfrey, a morning news anchor on WJLA (ABC 7) Washington DC, was charged with trespassing and being drunk in public last month. From Arlington County Police Department:
“At approximately 12:45 AM on February 18, officers working a detail in Clarendon responded to the 1100 block of N. Highland Street for the report of a disturbance at a restaurant. The restaurant manager advised arriving officers that a female subject had allegedly started an altercation inside the establishment and they no longer wanted her on the property. Restaurant employees escorted the female subject off the property where she was advised by police that she would be arrested for trespassing if she returned that evening. The female subject left the immediate area with friends.
At approximately 1:24 AM, officers were advised that the female subject had returned to the property. Responding officers arrived on scene and observed the female subject inside the restaurant. Autria Godfrey, 33, was arrested and charged with trespassing and drunk in public.”
There had been no previous public notification from the TV station as to why the news anchor had not been on the air – suspended from her job – nor any news reports of the trespass incident. First report was from ARL Now, a news partner of WTOP Radio, in D.C.