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Considering at least one local blogger has been saturating us with coverage of Mr. Sinclair, attempting to lend credibility to an incredibly bizarre and absurd story (from a man who has serious credibility problems), it’s appropriate to point out: He was arrested on Tuesday.

Key highlights from the Wired report:

Larry Sinclair, 46, was allowed to deliver his presentation to the smattering of reporters in attendance before deputy U.S. Marshals quietly led him away in handcuffs, Sinclair’s lawyer confirmed Thursday. Already burdened with a long rap sheet, Sinclair was wanted on a criminal warrant in Delaware….

Sinclair claims to have had sex and snorted drugs with Barack Obama in the back of a limousine in 1999 while Obama was a state legislator. The claims are unsubstantiated, and Sinclair first made them in a YouTube video released this January, which has garnered over 900,000 views — despite Sinclair’s long history of criminal fraud, and his flunking of a polygraph on the supposed tryst….

The morning of the event, Sinclair helpfully posted a picture of himself on his blog, and in a post warned Obama supporters not to try and crash his press conference.

The photo allowed Margot to phone the police with a description. Then she went down to the Press Club to see the results.

“They may not have stopped the press conference but the police did show up, and took him away,” she wrote in to the Mitch and Nan Show blog later. “I was just at the NPC building and there was one only police car left by the time I got there.”

The feds had to pull rank on Washington, D.C. police officers who also showed up to arrest Sinclair.

Sinclair appeared in D.C. superior court for his arraignment Thursday afternoon. The court clerk confirmed he’d been listed as a “fugitive from justice.”

Sinclair’s attorney Montgomery Sibley, whose license to practice law has been suspended in Florida and Washington, D.C., says that he has arranged for a lawyer to represent Sinclair in Delaware