[Vision2020] Levi Johnston's Mother hit with drug chargesLevi Johnston's Mother Hit With Drug Charges

[Tom Hansen]

Courtesy of today's (December 19, 2008) Anchorage Daily News at:

http://www.adn.com/news/alaska/crime/story/628010.html
 
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Levi Johnston's mother hit with drug charges
Arrested: her son was in the spotlight as father of Bristol Palin's baby.

By ZAZ HOLLANDER
zhollander at adn.com
  
WASILLA -- A 42-year-old Wasilla woman was arrested Thursday at her home 
by Alaska State Troopers with a search warrant in an undercover drug 
investigation. Sherry L. Johnston was charged with six felony counts of 
misconduct involving a controlled substance.

Johnston is the mother of Levi Johnston, the Wasilla 18-year-old who 
received international attention in September when Gov. Sarah Palin and 
her husband, Todd, announced their teenage daughter was pregnant and he 
was the father. Bristol Palin, 18, is due on Saturday, according to a 
recent interview with the governor's father, Chuck Heath. 

Troopers served the warrant at Johnston's home at the "conclusion of an 
undercover narcotics investigation," said a statement issued Thursday by 
the troopers as part of the normal daily summary of activity around the 
state.

Troopers charged Johnston with second-degree misconduct involving a 
controlled substance -- generally manufacturing or delivering drugs -- as 
well as fourth-degree misconduct involving controlled substances, or 
possession.

Troopers released no other information, including the kind or amount of 
drugs, because details could jeopardize an ongoing investigation, 
spokeswoman Megan Peters said. 

Asked how long the investigation had proceeded before Johnston's arrest, 
Peters would only say "a while."

The Palmer District Attorney's office had no comment. 

Sherry Johnston was arrested around noon and booked at Mat-Su Pretrial 
Facility, according to a booking officer there. She was released on a 
$5,000 unsecured bond just after 2 p.m. 

No charging documents had been filed at Palmer courthouse by the end of 
the day, a clerk said. 

Levi Johnston sat with Bristol and the rest of the Palin family in St. 
Paul, Minn., during Gov. Palin's speech to the Republican National 
Convention, and he joined the family on the stage afterwards. 

When asked about the arrest, Palin's spokesman, Bill McAllister, issued 
the following statement by e-mail: "This is not a state government matter. 
Therefore the governor's communications staff will not be providing 
comment or scheduling interview opportunities."

Johnston didn't come to the door of her home on Caribou Loop Road outside 
Wasilla on Thursday afternoon. A teenage boy who answered the door said he 
couldn't provide any information. 

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Tom Hansen
Moscow, Idaho
 
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