Levi's mom was making/dealing oxycontin:
WASILLA -- Wasilla resident Sherry L. Johnston, mother of Bristol Palin's boyfriend, faces a Jan. 6 court date for an oxycontin-related arrest at her home by Alaska State Troopers.
Little additional information was available Friday on the case as authorities remained unusually tight-lipped about details. But Palmer court records listed her scheduled court date and a troopers spokeswoman said in a release late Friday afternoon that the charges "are in relation to the drug oxycontin."
As has been posited offline, one smells the vindictive hand of the Palin family in this. Track, after all, was busted for selling oxycontin. Who was making it for him?
I'm wondering whether Levi's been balking at the whole "marriage" thing, now that Sarah is no longer Empress of the Universe (except in her own twisted mind).
UPDATE: Unsubstantiated buzz is that both Bristol and Levi were both known to enjoy his mom's home cooking...
And an interesting point brought up in email: if Mrs. Johnston's cottage industry wasn't a state matter, (1) why were state troopers involved, and (2) was the Wasilla church fire a state matter? Because the Guvnor shur did get in front of the cameras for that one.
OT, but check out the look in his eyes.
Posted by: shpx.ohfu | December 20, 2008 at 09:36 AM
And, how exactly were the state troopers involved?
Posted by: terri | December 20, 2008 at 09:51 AM
Thank Gawd, Tawd has a new address to surveil from the woods. He's very hands-on doncha know.
Posted by: HarpoSnarx | December 20, 2008 at 09:59 AM
Oxycontin is a cool small version of opium.
Anybody who's dug vicodin that the dentist gave you, multiply that by 5, you're in Percoset...
It's all a ladder.
Oxy is 5 times that.
No one makes Oxy at home, because you need opium to start with-- which grows best in Afghast like Ohio, unless, also too, you want to go REALLY west. Which would put you in the Far East.
The stuff's great, ad it's only expensive because of the medical/pharmedical cartel.
Posted by: wa ching | December 20, 2008 at 10:12 AM
I had not thought of the angle of pushing Levi. Seriously, what kind of fucked up family do you have if you want your daughter to marry into THAT. Seriously, I was sure she was running a meth lab in her house when I heard.
Harpo: Let's not forget they are next door neighbors to Canada, where it would be cheaper to get their supply:)
Posted by: Melissa | December 20, 2008 at 10:29 AM
Has little Charles Barkley's Johnson been born yet?
Posted by: JDM | December 20, 2008 at 10:36 AM
'unusually tight-lipped'
Nice little piece of phrasing there.
Posted by: Caveat | December 20, 2008 at 10:58 AM
I heard Rush is flying to Alaska for some "sight seeing".
Posted by: Capt. Bat Guano | December 20, 2008 at 11:20 AM
The opium poppy is the savior of this planet Earth.
Pain-free, sickness-free, what's wrong with that?
And... do not bring up Sir Charles' penis in this neighborhood, because you will experience a newer, broader vision, new colors version of snowboarding.
Posted by: wa ching | December 20, 2008 at 11:22 AM
Maybe she was helping with the baby's college fund?
Posted by: Monica_A: T'Pogo | December 20, 2008 at 11:55 AM
Me thinks this is another Palin business partnership gone bad...Somehow Sarah pissed of Sherry who was going to spill the beans on the whole Trig's-real-mother-Bristol-NotPregnant-thing to save her Levi. Now even though Todd was getting a good percentage running the goods up to the his roughneck drill-boys by snowmobile and Bristol was selling the stuff to her classmates in Wasilla High this outing of Bristol was a deal breaker!
Posted by: queek | December 20, 2008 at 12:46 PM
Wow, when little Axe Suet pops out he will have two pretty F-ed up Grand Moms. ... . The only question will be which is the most F-ed up........
Posted by: MD | December 20, 2008 at 01:06 PM
alaska taint exactly Northern Exposure is it. more like tennessee with a lot more ice.
Posted by: pansypoo | December 20, 2008 at 01:35 PM
His name is Linc Black Moses Budweiser Palin Johnston. Live it, learn it, love it!
Posted by: Monica_A: T'Pogo | December 20, 2008 at 01:41 PM
you can't make oxycontin at home. but you can make meth.
Posted by: Nancy Green | December 20, 2008 at 02:10 PM
Most criminal laws are state laws, after all, and it's not at all unusual for state troopers to be involved, particularly in a small town.
Did ya see "The Departed"? Those were staties.
Posted by: Culture of Truth | December 20, 2008 at 03:10 PM
I understand this is Sarah's Xmas card:
http://directorblue.blogspot.com/2008/12/holiday-card.html
Posted by: Shaw Kenawe | December 20, 2008 at 03:12 PM
After Troopergate, I think this is just the beginning of the state police payback. They don't like crime but they hate it when you mess with one of their own.
Posted by: montag | December 20, 2008 at 06:39 PM
montag: that's a new angle, which could make sense. However, I still have a hunch that Queen Sarah was somehow involved in Mrs. Johnston's arrest. I smell a vendetta or silencing going on... and I doubt allowing Johnston to be arrested would work as a silencing technique. Something is going down - perhaps something as simple as getting the other grandmother out of the picture. Levi already dropped out of high school to get a job, and without a mother at home, the Johnston family is probably going to be broke. That means the Palin family is just going to have to have all of the control over that new baby. And we all can see that Queen Sarah likes control.
Posted by: amused | December 20, 2008 at 07:59 PM
Ox E. Johnston?
-- or --
Rush Limbaugh Johnston?
Meanwhile, doesn't this seem to shed some dim light on why Bristol was taken out of the Wasilla school system, and sent to live with an aunt in Anchorage instead?
Posted by: Hudson | December 20, 2008 at 10:42 PM
"you can't make oxycontin at home. but you can make meth."
True, but you can take the time release coating off the oxy tabs at home, there by juicing the jolt you get from it.
Posted by: Gindy | December 21, 2008 at 08:05 AM