Pulitzer Prize winner handcuffed after 9-1-1 hoax

(WASHINGTON POST) — WASHINGTON – Pulitzer Prize-winning newspaper columnist Leonard G. Pitts Jr. said he was awakened early Sunday by police who ordered him out of his home in suburban Bowie, Maryland, and handcuffed him while they investigated a report that a crime was being committed in the house.

The report, made to Bowie police by telephone, was determined to be false.

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