Trespassing Charge for Former Senate Candidate Whitnum

Former U.S. Senate candidate Lisa "Lee Whitnum" Whitnum-Baker was charged with first-degree criminal trespassing last Thursday, April 18, after she showed up at Atria of Darien senior assisted-living complex after she was told she wasn't allowed on the premises, police said.

Whitnum, 52, who was a Greenwich resident in 2012 and now resides at 101 Summer St., Stamford, was at Atria of Darien, at 50 Ledge Rd., at about 7:20 p.m. when police were called to the scene.

She previously had been told that if she showed up on the property again, she would be subject to arrest, police said. Darien police did not explain why Whitnum-Baker purportedly had been told not to enter the property again.

When police arrived at the scene, they issued Whitnum-Baker a misdemeanor summons to appear April 29 in state Superior Court in Stamford. Police then escorted her off the property.

Whitnum-Baker ran for U.S. Senate in 2012, a race which Democrat U.S. Sen. Chris Murphy won and which Republican Linda McMahon also ran for office.