New York (CNN) - The wife of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. faces a court date next week on a drunk driving charge, the latest in a string of events that began when Kennedy filed for divorce, according to records from Westchester County.
Records from the Westchester County Clerk show that Kennedy filed for divorce form his wife Mary Kennedy on May 12.
The next evening, according to police records, Bedford police responded to a 911 call. When police arrived at the Kennedy residence they found the couple in an argument over taking their four children to a carnival at St. Patrick's School.
According to a "domestic incident" report filed by the officer on the scene, "Mr. Kennedy stated that his wife was intoxicated and was acting
irrational so he took the children to the carnival to remove them from the situation."
No one was injured, the report said.
Two days later, Mary Kennedy was arrested for driving while intoxicated. Bedford Police Lt. Jeff Dickans told CNN that Mary was arrested around 9:15 p.m. on May 15. Dickans said that Bedford police officer Patricia McGraw saw Kennedy's vehicle swerving onto the curb of Greenwich Road in Bedford and asked her to pull over.
Kennedy had slurred speech, and a blood-alcohol-content above than 0.08 percent, the legal limit in New York. She was charged with driving while intoxicated.
"The DUI is pending and we're hopeful that we'll be able to resolve it in the future," her lawyer, Kerry Lawrence, told CNN.
She is due to appear in Town Court on July 22. Lawrence declined to comment on the divorce filing.
Reached through his assistant, Mary Beth Postman, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. also declined to comment on the divorce.
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Nothing new with this family of spoiled brats who behave as if they were above the law. She'll probably get off easy.
CNN. Don't you think that this is a private matter between two private citizens? How would you like your personal problems to be plastered all over the web so that everybody could pass judgement on you? All of us have problems in our lives and for you to publish this information is classless. What goes around comes around. Maybe you'll see how it feels to have your privacy violated.
What, a Kennedy charged with DUI – I'm SHOCKED! (Not at the drunk driving, of course, but the fact that she woudl be charged. Of course, this was 3 days after divorce was filed (hmmm). And of course, if you are actual blood Kennedy, like RFK Jr, and are caught driving under the influence and acting bizzarly, you get a FREE PASS!
Why is this in the political ticker?
Oh those kenndys and their drinks
Oh, no! Another Kennedy drama! We are so over the Kennedy family! Why is this making news?
It's the Kennedy's.....who cares.
Sad for all involed.
she found out his prefernce (s) that caused her to go out and put on a "TED".
The Kennedys are famous for that. Anyone riding with him better be glad he didn't drive them into a river. Sad, sad, sad Kopeckne affair. Get all the Immoral Kennedys out of politics
Well... just proves she's a Kennedy...
Ted would be so proud
Just marrying into the kennedy clan screws you up.
Maybe this powerful liberal couple should
seek counciling from 19 year old Bristol Palin
on reconciling differences in a relationship.
I know they don't like conservatives but hey,
I'm just saying.
My goodness. Even when you think they are all dead the family is just the gift that keeps on giving.
Robert is a real piece of... work. Hopefully, he will lose his election bed and try his luck in the private sector. Then he'll realize how far off the liberal agenda is.
Who cares she is human
Robert Kennedy Jr. is a great man and a great activist, but it appears this great man has a great flaw: he didn't pick a very good wife for himself.
No surprise it runs in the family.