Well GOLLLLLYEEE as Gomer Pyle would have said. Who'd have thunk it? Surprise, surprise, surprise -- NOT!
Less than 24 hours before she endorsed Donald Trump, Sarah Palin's son was arrested on domestic violence charges, police in Wasilla, Alaska, said Tuesday.
Track Palin, the former governor and vice
president candidate's 26-year-old son, was arrested and charged with
interfering with the report of a domestic violence, possession of a
firearm while intoxicated and assault on his girlfriend, which are all
misdemeanors, police said.
Track Palin in 2008. Justin Sullivan / Getty Images, file
Around 10 p.m. Monday local time (2 a.m. Tuesday
ET) a police officer responded to a 911 call at the Palin household in
Wasilla. The officer wrote that when he met Track Palin in the driveway
he was "uncooperative, belligerent and evasive with my initial line of
questioning," court documents show.
Track and his girlfriend of one year had been
arguing about her contact with an ex-boyfriend most of the day, even
during a dinner at his sister's house, before returning to the house
where he lives with his parents, according to the court documents.
The girlfriend, who NBC News is not naming
because she is a victim of alleged domestic abuse, told a police officer
at the scene that Track approached her and, "struck her on the left
side of her head near her eye with a closed fist," sending her to the
ground, where she curled up into a fetal position, the documents show.
Track then allegedly kicked his girlfriend in
the right knee, and threw her phone across the driveway, the girlfriend
told police. She then ran to retrieve her phone and ran back inside the
Palin home, where she was met by Track — and his AR-15 rifle, according
to the court documents.
Track allegedly cocked the weapon and menaced
the girlfriend by asking, "Do you think I'm a p-ssy?" and "Do you think I
won't do it?" documents said.
The girlfriend, not sure if Track "would shoot
himself," ran outside and around the house — losing sight of Track — and
ran to hide under a bed, documents said.
Track Palin was arraigned in Palmer District
Court and was released after posting $1500 bail later Tuesday. The
courts didn't immediately have a lawyer on record for him.
