WASHINGTON (DC)
WTOP

By WTOP Staff
March 19, 2015

WASHINGTON – A D.C. police officer and pastor charged with sexually abusing two teen girls waived his preliminary hearing Thursday and remains in jail without bail.

Darrell Best, 45 of Upper Marlboro, is on paid leave from the Metropolitan Police Department and is taking a sabbatical from the D.C. church, where he also worked as a pastor, since he was arrested Monday.

An assistant pastor is now running the God of a Second Chance Ministry Church in Southeast D.C.

Best appeared in court and whispered to his attorney during the short hearing, during which the defense requested that Best to be placed on house arrest. Best appeared annoyed when the judged ordered that he remained held in jail.