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Arrest, citations and restraining orders: all the legal dramas in Lauren Boebert’s family

Source: AP/Getty/Garfield County Sheriff’s Office

“Now that I’m in the public eye, the Left attacks us relentlessly – facts be damned,” Lauren Boebert wrote in her 2022 memoir My American Life, published 18 months after she first took office as a Colorado congresswoman, in an attempt to explain her then-husband’s 2004 indecent exposure arrest.

“They point to Jayson’s arrest and say awful things about him – rather than applaud a man who’s made a few mistakes along the way, learned from them, and then made himself a true success, got married, and is raising four incredible young men.”

Fast forward another 18 months or so, however, and more mistakes have added to that list – including alleged criminal activity by one of those “young men” as the Boebert brood adds to its booking photo repertoire, with news that her 18-year-old son was arrested and charged with a spate of break ins.

The family has been no stranger to tussles with authority over the years, and there is a and the one she’s — although usually that’s tied to self-reliance, dependability, decorum and family values.

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