WASHINGTON – Sen. Larry Craig was arrested this summer by an undercover cop in an operation targeting lewd conduct in an airport men’s room, it was revealed yesterday.
Craig, a married Idaho Republican, pleaded guilty to misdemeanor disorderly conduct after acting in a way that the arresting police officer said was a “signal” for people wishing to engage in “lewd conduct,” according to the arrest report obtained by Roll Call newspaper.
The officer said he was staking out the bathroom at the Minneapolis-St. Paul Airport after complaints about homosexual activity.
He said Craig sat down in the adjacent stall and put his bag against the stall door. He then tapped his right foot.
“I recognized this as a signal used by persons wishing to engage in lewd conduct,” the officer wrote.
“The presence of others [in the bathroom] did not seem to deter Craig as he moved his right foot so that it touched the side of my left foot which was within my stall area,” the report states.
In a statement yesterday, Craig said, “I was not involved in any inappropriate conduct.”