Levi Johnson's mom busted on drug charges

Source: Anchorage Daily News

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@adn.com

Published: December 18th, 2008 08:30 PM
Last Modified: December 18th, 2008 12:26 AM

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.

Read more: http://www.adn.com/news/alaska/crime/story/628010.html

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Wasilla must be one partying town. I wonder if wingnuts will play guilt by association with this item.

something like 50 meth labs have been busted in recent years?

take it from a recovering addict...clean 6 years...if the charge is manufacturing, it's crank

growing pot, it would be cultivation or something like that.

lol

Meth sucks ass...I tried it a few times and it will suck you in...

One of my buddies - 54 year old grandfather - lost everything...great wife, cars, his bike, house...

living in a trailer now with his meth girlfriend...only took 10 months

Welcome to DU!
Julie

3 months ago: Sherry Johnston, mother of Levi Johnston, talks about her son at her home in Wasilla, Alaska Tuesday, Sept. 2, 2008. Levi is the boyfriend of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's unwed, pregnant daughter and he'lll join the family of the Republican vice presidential candidate at the party's convention in St. Paul, Minn.

http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://cache.day...

One of the assistants who works with my dentist was telling me of experiences they have have doing reconstructive dental work on meth users. Meth users drink so much soda and carbonated beverages that they literally dissolve their tooth enamel, it gets to the point that the tooth enamel becomes like a grape skin, just the slightest pressure and the tooth splats like a squeezed grape!

Most users smoke it through a hollow pen. The smoke eats away at your gums and teeth. Not to mention your lungs

That's like assuming all alcohol users are like those winos hanging out by the corner stores.

started making meth at her house to try to get an income. Her 3 children were selling it at school and after it was reported they were taken from her and put into foster care. It was heartbreaking.

Don't they also have lax pot laws in Alaska ?

Seems to me that this is more about crack than anything else.

This family,er, The Palin's also has a feud with the smokies

So why do I have the feeling that this might just disappear kinda like
the Troopergate thing?

Not good for a lead in to 2012 is it ?

but they'll still bust you for a grow operation. The Mat-Su Valley is also famous for its pot as well as its meth.

Quite a garden spot Caribou Barbie hails from!

but from my years working in the legal biz here, I've noticed a lot of that sort of thing coming out of Wasilla, I'm not sure why. More from Wasilla than Palmer, its sister city out there in the Mat-Su Valley. That's just anecdotal, of course - I don't have statistics - but it was noticable to me long before Sarah Palin's rise.

The GOP and these Christian HillBillies are a joke and a fraud. I'm glad the American People saw through this charade.

............of METH CAPITOL OF THE WORLD, so c'mon give credit where credit is due. If you are talking which types of drugs might be used by certain types of ideologues, I would definitely think "meth" would be the choice of the "right".

She's used to getting crank calls from Levi's mom all the time!

Did I miss the wedding announcement?

as are unwed teen pregnancies and drug abuse, but other than that, Sarah's got it covered!

The shitface media bought into that whole Family value mess.

To the governor's mansion for Christmas festivities.

I know a local reporter who was there and sent me a snap of Bristol holding baby Trig, who was decked out in a miniature santa suit & hat.

dressed as Santa when the cops came?!

and not the drug house...there was an article about the mansoin being open to the public in the Alaskan newspaper and they had pics of Todd Palin holding a dressed up Trig...but I think that him holding the kid was only for photo op pic..the article said that Willow was taking care of Trig at the get together. It said that the only kids there Willow, Piper, and Trig. Maybe he took a pic of Willow w/ Trig and thought it was Bristol?

But sort of unusual for Bristol to be the only one missing for a Palin photo-op. Maybe she was at the crank shack/meth lab that night with Levi.

yup, she won`t be invited to the palin christmas shindig...


you get the feeling that sherry kind`a hates sarah......

"Wide-stance, Diaper-Clad Republicon 'family values' come into play here, so all you clucking lib-ruls can just shut up, sit down, and turn green with envy at the SPECIAL way this, um, sinner will be handled. Smirk."

- Sarah Pale Horse & Christo-Homelander Claque

If my son were marrying into a wacko family like the Palins, I'd be sourly pressed to do drugs too.

or will it be Trunk, Bee, Strike or Bam-bam Palin?

it has that 21st century ring to it.

.... Oops Palin, that is. Or is it Mye.... as in Mye Johnson?

For those who didn't use this during the GE ...

http://politsk.blogspot.com/2008/09/sarah_13.html

Scroll down and put your name in the blank, and you'll find out what your name would have been had you been Sarah's child.

Mine is Gravel Blood Palin

Filter Skate Palin.

It's all building up for the Christmas special, isn't it?

:lol: Chirstmas special.

"All I Want for Chrismeth is My Two Front Teeth" accompanied by Sarah Palin on the fiddle.

She plays the flute, remember?! Tina Fey got it right during the sendup of the debate!

as evidenced by her ethics violations, expense reporting, etc.

But you are right, Miss Wasilla is indeed a 'flautist'--- if someone who plays the flute about as well as I did in third grade (with buck teeth, mind you) can be called a flautist.

I'd hit it.

That's more like 100,000 population.

Alcohol consumption rates reflect the prevalence and severity of alcohol related problems. The alcohol consumption rate in Alaska has been higher than the rate in the rest of the nation during each of the last 14 years, and is well above the Healthy Alaskans 2010 goal of 2.2 gallons or less per person per year.

http://www.hss.state.ak.us/dph/healthplanning/movingfor...

Of beer? or whiskey/vodka?

http://www.niaaa.nih.gov/Resources/DatabaseResources/Qu...

For instance, from those figures, 1.19 gallons of beer per year is about 13 beers (330 ml each) per year. One beer every 4 weeks isn't a feasible average for the US. But if the beer is 5% alcohol, and it's the measure of pure ethanol, then it'd be an average of 5 beers a week - much more believable.

When's the wedding?

Isn't Bristol about due?

and i haven't sent them a card!

I had a nice set of Pyrex Lab Beakers all wrapped up to send as a gift...

As the Bailiff will be armed they can save on shotgun fees, too.

It's a win-win!

I love weddings!

............I'm sorry.........."sniff"..............

are hilarious!!

made my day!!

but good one, tomeboy!

Right now in some alternate reality after McCain won,
Bristol and Levi's wedding is being planned for a major television event.
This reality also consist of unicorns.

http://www.RobertIsrael.etsy.com

Noah left them off the ark.

Hmm... Such secrecy... Hmm... Troopers mum... The Governor's Igloo mum... Hmm...

over the silence and clinking of silverware Todd, at the head of the table has to decide what to bring up first, Sherry getting busted or her son not having married his daughter yet

Todd has to do it because Sarah will just be glowing in the aura of her own AWESOMENESS

or was that Charles Addams? I get them confused.

nm

Levi doesn't marry Bristol as planned.

Caribu Barbie had been looking the other way about the drug use and now unleashes the State Troopers to arrest her.

Is the Guv involved?

It would be in line with her Sarah's vindictive streak.

I think you're on to something

doesn't decide to do some helicopter thrill-killing.

So it must be crack. Jesus Christ I'm laughing so hard I'm about to piss my pants It really is the Wasilla trailor trash methhead hockey moms up there. I always wondered how Palin was so skinny after 5 kids. Now I think I know. It cost $30,000 a month to paint that makeup on her face so she don't look like Amy Winehouse with a face full of scabs. That Thompson water seal isn't cheap.

is legal. The troopers still bust marijuana grows, though.

Here's the statute for MICS II

AS 11.71.020. Misconduct Involving a Controlled Substance in the Second Degree.

(a) Except as authorized in AS 17.30, a person commits the crime of misconduct involving a controlled substance in the second degree if the person

(1) manufactures or delivers any amount of a schedule IA controlled substance or possesses any amount of a schedule IA controlled substance with intent to manufacture or deliver;

(2) manufactures any material, compound, mixture, or preparation that contains

(A) methamphetamine, or its salts, isomers, or salts of isomers; or

(B) an immediate precursor of methamphetamine, or its salts, isomers, or salts of isomers;

(3) possesses an immediate precursor of methamphetamine, or the salts, isomers, or salts of isomers of the immediate precursor of methamphetamine, with the intent to manufacture any material compound, mixture, or preparation that contains methamphetamine, or its salts, isomers, or salts of isomers; or

(4) possesses a listed chemical with intent to manufacture any material, compound, mixture, or preparation that contains

(A) methamphetamine, or its salts, isomers, or salts of isomers; or

(B) an immediate precursor of methamphetamine, or its salts, isomers, or salts of isomer.

(b) In this section, "listed chemical" means a chemical described under AS 11.71.200 .

(c) Misconduct involving a controlled substance in the second degree is a class A felony.

Schedule IA drugs are:

(a) A substance shall be placed in schedule IA if it is found under AS 11.71.120(c) to have the highest degree of danger or probable danger to a person or the public.

(b) Schedule IA includes, unless specifically excepted or listed in another schedule, any of the following substances whether produced directly or indirectly by extraction from substances of vegetable origin, or independently by means of chemical synthesis, or by a combination of extraction and chemical synthesis:

(1) opium and opiate, and any salt, compound, derivative, or preparation of opium or opiate, excluding apomorphine, dextrorphan, nalbuphine, nalmefene, naloxone, and naltrexone, and their respective salts, but including the following:

(A) raw opium;

(B) opium extracts;

(C) opium fluid extracts;

(D) powdered opium;

(E) granulated opium;

(F) tincture of opium;

(G) codeine;

(H) ethylmorphine;

(I) etorphine hydrochloride;

(J) hydrocodone;

(K) hydromorphone;

(L) metopon;

(M) morphine;

(N) oxycodone;

(O) oxymorphine;

(P) thebaine;

(2) any salt, compound, derivative, or preparation of a substance included in (b)(1) of this section which is chemically equivalent or identical to any of the substances referred to in (b)(1) of this section; however, these substances do not include the isoquinoline alkaloids of opium;

(3) opium poppy and poppy straw;

(4) concentrate of poppy straw which is the crude extract of poppy straw in either liquid, solid, or powder form which contains the phennanthrine alkaloids of the opium poppy;

(5) 2-methylamino-1-phenylpropan-1-one, also known as methcathinone and cat.

(c) Schedule IA includes, unless specifically excepted or unless listed in another schedule, any of the following opiates, including their isomers, esters, ethers, salts, and salts of isomers, esters, and ethers, whenever the existence of these isomers, esters, ethers, and salts is possible within the specific chemical designation, dextrorphan excepted:

(1) acetylmethadol;

(2) allylprodine; (and another 79 things)

(d) Schedule IA includes, unless specifically excepted or unless listed in another schedule, any of the following opium derivatives, their salts, isomers, and salts of isomers whenever the existence of these salts, isomers, and salts of isomers is possible within the specific chemical designation:

(1) acetorphine;

(2) acetyldihydrocodeine; (and 21 more things)





MICS IV is

(a) Except as authorized in AS 17.30, a person commits the crime of misconduct involving a controlled substance in the fourth degree if the person

(1) manufactures or delivers any amount of a schedule IVA or VA controlled substance or possesses any amount of a schedule IVA or VA controlled substance with intent to manufacture or deliver;

(2) manufactures or delivers, or possesses with the intent to manufacture or deliver, one or more preparations, compounds, mixtures, or substances of an aggregate weight of one ounce or more containing a schedule VIA controlled substance;

(3) possesses

(A) any amount of a schedule IA or IIA controlled substance;

(B) 25 or more tablets, ampules, or syrettes containing a schedule IIIA or IVA controlled substance;

(C) one or more preparations, compounds, mixtures, or substances of an aggregate weight of three grams or more containing a schedule IIIA or IVA controlled substance;

(D) 50 or more tablets, ampules, or syrettes containing a schedule VA controlled substance;

(E) one or more preparations, compounds, mixtures, or substances of an aggregate weight of six grams or more containing a schedule VA controlled substance;

(F) one or more preparations, compounds, mixtures, or substances of an aggregate weight of one pound or more containing a schedule VIA controlled substance; or

(G) 25 or more plants of the genus cannabis;

(4) possesses a schedule IIIA, IVA, VA, or VIA controlled substance

(A) with reckless disregard that the possession occurs

(i) on or within 500 feet of school grounds; or

(ii) at or within 500 feet of a recreation or youth center; or

(B) on a school bus;

(5) knowingly keeps or maintains any store, shop, warehouse, dwelling, building, vehicle, boat, aircraft, or other structure or place that is used for keeping or distributing controlled substances in violation of a felony offense under this chapter or AS 17.30;

(6) makes, delivers, or possesses a punch, die, plate, stone, or other thing which prints, imprints, or reproduces a trademark, trade name, or other identifying mark, imprint, or device of another or any likeness of any of these upon a drug, drug container, or labeling so as to render the drug a counterfeit substance;

(7) knowingly uses in the course of the manufacture or distribution of a controlled substance a registration number that is fictitious, revoked, suspended, or issued to another person;

(8) knowingly furnishes false or fraudulent information in or omits material information from any application, report, record, or other document required to be kept or filed under AS 17.30;

(9) obtains possession of a controlled substance by misrepresentation, fraud, forgery, deception or subterfuge; or

(10) affixes a false or forged label to a package or other container containing any controlled substance.

(b) It is an affirmative defense to a prosecution under (a)(4)(A) of this section that the prohibited conduct took place entirely within a private residence located within 500 feet of the school grounds or recreation or youth center. Nothing in this subsection precludes a prosecution under any other provision of this section or any other section of this chapter.

(c) Nothing in (a)(5) or (6) of this section precludes a prosecution or civil proceeding brought under any other provision of this section or any other section of this chapter or under AS 17.

(d) Misconduct involving a controlled substance in the fourth degree is a class C felony.



IVA and VA drugs look to be prescription meds, codeine, etc.

why does this not surprise me?

Maybe they can name the new baby Trash.

I have no doubt she set the fire in her church last week to get the lower 48 reporters back up there and now she has Levi's mother arrested. Has to keep her name on everyone's lips from now until 2012. Next week will be the baby.

gee whiz i guess she is....

it's meth

HUGE DIFFERENCE

See my post above quoting the statute. MICS II is opiates, meth, etc.

mother to select? What if Ms Johnston opts for the more traditional stripes instead?

Didn't they used to have newspaper columns devoted to this sort of thing? I mourn the loss of real journalism in my lifetime....

Often the Bride's Mother wears an outfit accentuated with the fabrics chosen for the Bridesmaid's Dresses...

But, if they're also Safety Orange?

Oof... It'll be a nightmare!

very much in fashion right now. But I heard that this year's ammo vests were going to be scandalously short. You betcha!

I so hope she continues to be the gift that keeps on giving.

A total etiquette vacuum!

Where's the Decorum?

Now, if Alaska were a desert area... I would suggest a nice Desert Theme which would make the Safety Orange just POP!

*sigh*

I'm forced to suggest Patty Lane's "Tuscany" Scheme.

Here... http://www.colorschemer.com/schemes/tags/desert

Where's the guidance!

she won't be able to just bond out - there's not enough money missing to qualify for house arrest.

Poor Levi - a shotgun wedding is one thing - but a "step up to the altar and sound like you mean it or I won't pardon your mom" is a lot to toss on an 18 year old

Looks like it was made for a Court Room Setting including Da Judge's black robes.


I know... This is seriously a tragedy which is far too common in American life. *tsk*

a reminder of why I enjoy DU so much.

I just had surgery and I swear that ripped some stitches...........

I'm dying laughing here!!

Honestly, I can't stop laughing! DU'ers have the best sense of humor. I love it.

You are a role model for the up and coming blog youngsters!!

it's which stores and which expensive designer was used. Although personally, I'd vote for black.

Prison denim blue.

....with the polyester curtains and the redwood deck."

The new Republican sensation and future leader of the free world...



(lyrics courtesy of Sammy Kershaw)

"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."

Wow, I guess incest is not all that unacceptable up there in Alaska?

This is a family that Jerry Springer could do a whole season with.

"This is not a state government matter. Therefore the governor's communications staff will not be providing comment or scheduling interview opportunities."

I'm sure she'll have a panel review the situation and clear herself of any guilt by association.

So the baby is due tomorrow and no wedding cake. Check.

Now how about Sarah's new clothes? Remember when she got so indignant about it, saying they weren't her clothes and she was going to give them back? I haven't seen anything in the news about the clothes being returned, have you?

for making me laugh my ass off!!

you guys always come thru with the industrial strength snark!!

And the street - Caribou Loop Road. I swear, you can't make this shit up.

Alaskan version of the Jerry Springer Show on us.

If not for McCain we probably would never have heard of any of these people. Thanks a lot, John, through your boneheaded choice of Palin you've provided them with a permanent place in our headlines.

compared to this stuff!

It certainly does make us stay tuned to the shenanigans up there, doesn't it!!

'...details could jeopardize an ongoing investigation.'

What garbage.

Anyone involved knows what drugs she had.

Saying the public needs to be in the dark because of an 'ongoing investigation' is something the Bush Administration does.

" the best of America is in these small towns that we get to visit, and in these wonderful little pockets of what I call the real America.”

and

“We grow good people in our small towns, with honesty, sincerity, and dignity.”

http://www.gothamgazette.com/article/issueoftheweek/200...


I guess abiding by the laws doesn't fit in with the honesty and wonderfulness of small towns.

doesn't it?

by the State Police for violation of State laws this is not an appropriate response.

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."

How fucking dumb do they think everyone else is?

If it was not a state matter, the arrest would have been made by the Wasilla Police Department, not the Alaska STATE Troopers.

And my family is no exception.

There is plenty to criticize Palin for, but I won't blame her for something that her daughter's boyfriend's mother did. I hope that the lady can get treatment and be able to kick her habit, and I hope that none of her children are involved..

Or has this family gone off the deep end since Sarah took them over? Would anyone in their right mind be able to handle their son being the unwed father of the Palins grandchild, just witnessing what we have of Sarah and the Dude. Looks like Levi might have been able to escape, but who knows what his parents are being put through. I'd turn to drink or drugs, too.

but I think I see how the Palins are going to get out of Bristol's marrying this hick.

In Florida girls go wild but up in Alaaaaaaa ska grandma can chop and snort up lines with the best of them.





Maybe she was making and and selling it to the republican boomers. Now Palin can fire the cops all over again

And it's actually EIGHT YEARS OF METH USE... See some the links below for the true horror show:

http://www.publicsafety.virginia.gov/VaResponsetoMeth.p... (PowerPoint presentation with the 8 years label and more likely progression...)

This is a interesting link with several photos of different meth users:
http://www.drugfree.org/Portal/DrugIssue/MethResources/...

with the future in laws involved with drugs she can now say that she doesn't want her daughter marrying into "that" kind of family and she can say it with a straight face too. Since the wedding was a sham anyways.

There's the missing link.