Alex Jones' wife arrested on domestic violence charge

DALLAS – The woman of conspiracy theorist Alex Jones was arrested Christmas Eve connected a home unit complaint that the right-wing provocateur said stems from a "medication imbalance.”

Sheriff's deputies took Erika Wulff Jones into custody and booked her into an Austin jailhouse astir 8:45 p.m. Friday. Jail records amusement the 43-year-old faces misdemeanor charges of battle causing bodily wounded to a household subordinate and resisting arrest, hunt oregon transport. She had not received a enslaved Saturday afternoon.

Alex Jones, an Austin nonmigratory and laminitis of the right-wing media radical Infowars, declined Saturday to accidental whether he'd been injured oregon elaborate connected what happened beyond that helium believes it was related to his wife's caller alteration of medication.

“It’s a backstage household substance that happened connected Christmas Eve," Jones told The Associated Press successful a little interview. "I emotion my woman and attraction astir her and it appears to beryllium immoderate benignant of medicine imbalance.”

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The Travis County Sheriff’s Office did not instantly respond to a petition Christmas Day for the study connected Wulff Jones’ apprehension and a spokeswoman said she could not supply much information. An lawyer for Wulff Jones did not instantly respond to a petition for comment.

Jones sued this week seeking to artifact subpoenas he'd been issued by the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection astatine the U.S. Capitol. Jones spoke astatine a rally successful enactment of then-President Donald Trump that proceeded the riot and his Infowars colleague, Owen Shroyer, was charged with crimes related to it successful August. Shroyer has said he's “innocent of the charges.”

Jones said his wife's apprehension “doesn't interest my politics” and that “it wasn’t immoderate benignant of idiosyncratic hateful happening oregon anything.”

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