Chicago Is For Haters: June 2012

Tuesday, June 19, 2012

Wild 100's-Dwyane Wade asks judge to suspend kids' visitation with mother

Attorneys for Dwyane Wade are seeking to suspend his former wife's visitation rights following her arrest Saturday after allegedly refusing to return the children to Wade's sister for several hours. Attorneys for Wade alleged his former wife barricaded herself in the home for several hours, refusing to let Wade's sister in or the boys out.

By then, sheriff's police officers were called to the home and were unable to get Funches-Wade to respond to their knocks on the door or calls, said department spokesman Frank Bilecki. Police gained access to a neighbor's residence, enabling officers to see that the two children were playing with two adults, he said.

"Then it became a waiting game," Bilecki said. When Funches-Wade later exited her house without the children, police attempted to arrest her for allegedly violating a court order, but she resisted, Bilecki said. Funches-Wade struggled with officers who tried to handcuff her and tried to moved back behind her home's security fence, Bilecki said. Another woman tried to pull her behind the fence as well, he said

As officers succeeded in handcuffing her, Funches-Wade said she was asthmatic and short of breath, Bilecki said. An ambulance was called and she was transported to St. Margaret Mary Hospital in Hammond. Funches-Wade was charged with two counts of attempted child abduction, two counts of unlawful visitation interference and one account of resisting arrest, according to Bilecki. The friend who tried to assist her was also charged. Funches-Wade was released Monday after posting $10,000 bond, the sheriff's department said.

The boys ended up missing their commercial flight, causing Wade to charter a flight at great expense for them Saturday evening so they could be with him on Father's Day, his attorneys said. "My children have been subjected to a great deal of 'drama/trauma' as a result of (their mother's) conduct throughout this case," Wade wrote in the emergency motion.

In court Tuesday, Judge Marya Nega did not make any decisions on the emergency motion. The matter will be back up in court next week. "We hope the judge will do whatever is necessary to make sure the children's safety is protected both physically and emotionally," Wade's attorney, James Pritikin, said in a telephone interview. To make matters worse for Funches-Wade, her attorneys moved to withdraw from representing her, saying they are "in adverse positions."
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