A son of 2016 presidential candidate Rand Paul was arrested for drunken driving after he slammed into a car while reeking of alcohol, a report said Wednesday.
William H. Paul plowed his Honda truck into the back of a parked car Sunday morning in Lexington, Ky., and cops found him in the driver’s seat “belligerent” and with “a strong odor of alcohol,” the Lexington Herald-Leader reported.
William, 22, whose senator father recently launched a campaign for the Republican nomination, was “revving his engine” while sitting alone in the vehicle shortly before the crash.
Witnesses heard a loud crash and called cops , who found the allegedly tipsy frat boy at the scene.
William, who attends the University of Kentucky, failed a field sobriety test. He then refused to undergo a blood-alchol test, the paper said.
In addition to the DUI, William was charged with failure to maintain required auto insurance, police said.
He was treated for facial injuries at University of Kentucky Chandler Hospital.
He was kept at the hospital and not taken to jail because of his injuries, the Herald-Leader reported.
William has had two previous run-ins with the law due to alcohol-related incidents, the newspaper reported.
In a 2013 drunken outburst, he was arrested for allegedly assaulting a 22-year-old female flight attendant on a jet bound for Charlotte Douglas International Airport in North Carolina, the Herald-Leader said.
When the flight landed, he was charged with simple assault consuming beer/wine underage, disorderly conduct and being intoxicated and disruptive.
He was also cited for possession of alcohol while underage at a Kentucky racetrack.
His politician dad, a libertarian who champions personal freedoms and personal responsibility, was not eager to weigh in on his son’s arrest.
A spokesman for Rand’s presidential campaign said the senator “does not comment on any private matters in regards to his family.”
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