Posted on 03/11/2005 11:45:49 AM PST by meandog
Real news for Stewart: Wife arrested
Jon Stewart could be forgiven if he arrived a little late to yesterday's taping of "The Daily Show." He was busy getting his wife, Tracey McShane, out of jail. The normally wisecracking comic looked understandably anxious as he waited while his handcuffed sweetheart spent close to five hours being booked for driving with a suspended license.
McShane, 36, was driving through Central Park around 11 a.m. when she was pulled over for a moving violation, police confirmed to us.
Stewart's spokesman, Matt Labov, said: "She wasn't speeding. But the police discovered that she had a suspended license. She didn't even realize it. She paid a ticket last week. But apparently her check hadn't been processed."
Following procedure, cops impounded her car, cuffed her, loaded her into a squad car and took her to Central Booking.
There, police sources said, she was fingerprinted, posed for a mug shot and held while cops checked to see if there were any outstanding warrants for the arrest of the mother of 8-month-old Nathan Stewart....(excerpt)
I had a arrest warrant out on me for an unpaid parking ticket I didn't even know I'd been given. A $2 fine cost $55, and I waited while the magistrate put out the radio call to cancel the arrest warrant on me.
Quite a bizarre feeling, really.
You don't reckon she gave the officer some smart a$$'d lip....do ya???
Consider that in Illinois, your license can be suspended if your car hasn't passed it's Illinois EPA inspection (either it failed, or you didn't take it in). Now, the story says that she sent in a check but that it hadn't been processed yet. Say she has a situation like this, where her license was suspended not because of DUI or a traffic violation, but because of an administrative process. If her state of residence is as efficient as Illinois, she might have mailed the check in a month ago and figured that "hey, they'll get it processed in a month", only to find out that it's been sitting on someone's desk until the highly efficient employees of the Secretary of State get around to dealing with it. Presuming it hasn't fallen on the floor, or something such.
My mom was arrested for overdue library fines that weren't paid when she was pulled over for a speeding ticket. My brother and I were 10 and 12. It was very scary!
My license had been suspended for 6 months before I found out. Actually, my insurance company found out and told me (you BET they told me!).
Judging from this picture, I say she married for love!
LOL...cruel man, cruel!
Nope. The state trooper told me he couldn't let me drive off with a suspended license. Of course he also told me if I were to wait until he went down the road and then drove off there wasn't much he could do but also recommended getting the license fixed the next day which I did.
No freakin way...That looks like his mother!
"Following procedure, cops impounded her car, cuffed her, loaded her into a squad car and took her to Central Booking."
For a license violation?
RIDICULOUS!"
Do you know how many times a cop is shot and/or killed from a routine traffic stop? Stewart's wife wasn't the violent type, but who can take a chance?
That analogy leaves me speechless
I had a suspended license once & didn't know it. I found out by getting pulled over for an illegal turn. Luckily, the officer let me go and I paid the fine.
It has happened to me and several people I know. (Driving with a suspended liscence with no knowledge thereof). Arresting her for this is a bit extreme IMHO.
Unnnnngh!
11 a.m
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