Idaho authorities confirm arrest warrant for Senator Larry Craig's daughter

Jason Rhyne

Published: Friday September 7, 2007





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When Senator Larry Craig's daughter went public on ABC's Good Morning America to defend her father, she may have gotten a bit more publicity than she bargained for.

Following the show's airing, a reader of Idaho's Boise Guardian tipped the website that there was a warrant for Shae Suzanne Howell's arrest.

"We checked with officials at the jail and according to their records the contempt of court warrant is active," the Guardian reported. "Chances are she may not have been aware of the warrant and until she became a television personality, few people (including the coppers) linked her name to Craig."

The ABC News blog Political Punch says the appearance may have reawakened Idaho authorities' interest in the case, reporting yesterday that Howell was charged with "unlawful entry" and "malicious entry to property" in November of 2006, according to Boise's Ada County Courthouse.

"But she missed her court date on April 9 of this year. The arrest warrant was issued as a result of her failing to appear in court," the blog's Jack Tapper wrote.

Howell told ABC that her arrest warrant "has nothing to do with my dad's job," and said her charges were related to re-entering her own home during a "very difficult divorce."

Caught "going into a house without permission and damaging property," according to a Boise Police Department spokesman, Howell was given a summons but was not originally arrested or booked.

The contempt warrant for Howell's arrest and other documents can be viewed at The Smoking Gun.



