Posted on 12/19/2008 2:04:16 AM PST by prisoner6
(Wasilla, AK) -- The mother of Levi Johnston, who gained fame as the boyfriend of Bristol Palin, was arrested in Wasilla, Alaska Thursday on six felony drug charges. The "Anchorage Daily News" reports that Sherry Johnston was arrested at her home and charged with manufacturing or delivering drugs, as well as possession.
Johnston is the mother of 18-year-old Levi Johnston, who became the focus of media attention when Governor Sarah Palin announced her teenage daughter was pregnant and he was the father. Levi Johnston sat with the Palin family at the Republican National Convention in September when Sarah Palin accepted her party's nomination for vice president. Bristol Palin's baby boy is reportedly due Saturday.
The 42-year-old Sherry Johnston had apparently been the target of an investigation by Alaska State Troopers for some time, the "Daily News" reports. Troopers didn't release any information about the kinds of drugs involved, saying it might jeopardize an ongoing investigation. Sherry Johnston was freed on five-thousand dollars bond.
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Poor kid.
I don’t smoke pot any longer and I don’t have a problem with others smoking it but this seems a bit more serious. We all want to hope it’s only pot that is involved but none of us know that for a fact. All that aside, I don’t think this should reflect on Sarah, one way or the other.
I replied to you, but my post was more directed at everyone on here that wants to believe it only involves pot when none of us know that to be a fact.
IIRC, Al Gore’s kid getting busted was pretty much big news on FR with many here saying how terrible it was. There is almost as much a double standard on FR as there is in the MSM. Both sides need to be held to the exact same standards, if not by the media at least by FR.
“Sherry Johnston is just a woman who lives in Sarah Palin’s neighbourhood. Nothing to see here. Move On”
Wow, throw away as Conservative candidate as we have had in years b/c of her in law’s family.
Billy Carter, Roger Clinton,
“is he from a good family”
You mean a child can not rise above what his family is. They are doomed to be a low life also. Please
I personally know many who have come from what you might consider “low life family” who are pillars of society. Good Christian people.
How about the opposite, a good family who turns out a bad child. That does happen doesn’t it.
Maybe not children but what about Roger Clinton, Billy Carter, not to mention the Clintons themselves. These are closer than the mother of the son who will marry the dau of the president.
I agree that both sides should be held to the same standard, here and elsewhere. That said we are talking *kid* (and lets throw in brothers.... a la Billy, Roger and Hillary’s brother all of whom had scandals ignored) versus *kid’s boyfriend’s mother*. Kinda reaching it seems to me.
>>>Wow, throw away as Conservative candidate as we have had in years b/c of her in laws family.
And technically, not even an in law yet. Has a wedding date actually been set? For now she’s just the mother to Bristol’s baby daddy.
They were trapped? Every report I read indicated that the women and kids were not restricted or held or prevented in any way from leaving the building.
As I recall, Geraldine Ferraro’s kid, John Zaccaro, was dealing drugs in his college dormitory, and was busted shortly after Mondale/Ferraro lost in 1984. The called him “The Pharmacist”, IIRC...
Zaccaro Guilty of Cocaine Sale; Appeal Planned (NY TIMES)
LEAD: A jury today found John A. Zaccaro Jr. guilty of selling cocaine to an undercover officer two years ago, rejecting a defense lawyer's argument that the officer had entrapped Mr. Zaccaro.
A jury today found John A. Zaccaro Jr. guilty of selling cocaine to an undercover officer two years ago, rejecting a defense lawyer's argument that the officer had entrapped Mr. Zaccaro.
The jury deliberated for slightly more than two hours before finding the son of Geraldine A. Ferraro, the 1984 Democratic Vice-Presidential candidate, guilty of selling one-quarter gram of the drug in February 1986 while he was a student at Middlebury College.
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I live in the valley and yes it has been called the meth capitol of the state. Lately I have seen heroin making its return unfortunately. I have heard that the meth busts are making it more difficult and the drug culture finds it easier to get the heroin.
[...grrrrrrrr...]
Yea our President now admits to using cocaine and very few cared. But, Palins daughters mother in law now that is someting that matters. Yeah whatever.
She’s not even an in-law yet. AFAIK the wedding hasn’t happened.....and who knows if it actually ever will.
For now shes just the mother to Bristols baby daddy.
Speaking of low-lifes, Barack Obama’s father deserted his wife and family in Kenya to marry the president-elect’s mother. Then his father deserted his second family when Obama was 2 years old and later divorced his mother.
What’s your point again?
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