POLITICAL FIGURES/RAND PAUL: “A man has been arrested and charged with assaulting and injuring U.S. Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky, authorities said Saturday [11-4-17].
Kentucky State Police said in a news release that Mr. Paul suffered a minor injury when 59-year-old Rene Boucher allegedly assaulted him at the Republican senator’s Warren County home on Friday afternoon.
The release didn’t provide details of the assault or the nature of Mr. Paul’s injury. In a statement, Mr. Paul’s spokeswoman Kelsey Cooper said the senator is ‘fine.’ The statement said Mr. Paul was ‘blindsided’ by the assault but didn’t provide further details.
Mr. Boucher, of Bowling Green, is charged with fourth-degree assault with a minor injury, a misdemeanor. He is being held at Warren County’s jail on $5,000 bond. An automated phone system at the jail didn’t provide access to lawyer information for Mr. Boucher.
Kentucky State Police Master Trooper Jeremy Hodges said he couldn’t release details of the assault because of security issues. Mr. Hodges did say that Mr. Boucher is an acquaintance of Mr. Paul, an ophthalmologist who was elected to the Senate in 2010. It wasn’t immediately clear how they knew each other.
Mr. Hodges said Mr. Boucher would have faced more serious charges if he had used a weapon or if Mr. Paul had been injured seriously.”
-Associated Press, “Sen. Rand Paul Suffers Minor Injury in Assault at His Home,” The Wall Street Journal online, Nov. 4, 2017 06:46pm