This week’s Most Wanted fugitive should be relatively easy to find.
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He is 6-foot, 8-inch D.C. streetball legend Clarence “Omar” Weaver, a former All-American basketball star and a legitimate NBA prospect before his violent temper got the best of him.
Weaver remains a scoring leader in D.C.’s famed Goodman League in Barry Farms, and is a star on some of the best playground teams that play up and down the Eastern seaboard.
Now, the 30-year-old Weaver is wanted for his off-court exploits. Prince George’s County police have charged him in an Oct. 18 armed carjacking. Montgomery County police want him, too, for violating his parole on marijuana and assault convictions.
“This guy should be fairly easy for the public to identify. He probably comes into contact with a lot of different people through basketball,” said Supervisory Inspector Matt Burke of the U.S. Marshals Fugitive Task Force. “He has demonstrated a propensity for violence and carrying handguns. We’d like to catch him before he gets a chance to use one.”
Police said Weaver has had other arrests on charges of assault, possession of handguns and marijuana, auto theft, and attempted murder. In one incident, he was found with a bulletproof vest, police said.
Weaver even was arrested last summer for slapping a referee in the face after receiving a technical foul called against him at a league basketball game at Montgomery College.
As a high school junior, Weaver averaged 27 points a game at Coolidge High School and dominated the city’s three-point shooting contest. He left the school, signed with Missouri, then bounced around between junior colleges before declaring for the draft in 2002.
He played in professional developmental leagues in the United States and the Philippines until 2009.
Weaver has a distinctive mole on his face. He also has a tattoo of Chinese writing on his left forearm and a tattoo of a cross on his right forearm.
Anyone with information about Weaver can call the U.S. Marshals Fugitive Task Force at 301-489-1717.
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