Vanilla Ice back in jail for alleged domestic battery
Posted on April 11th, 2008 by Hot Momma
Vanilla Ice is chilling in the cooler (Palm Beach County Jail) after allegedly smacking his wife around.
The circa-1990 rapper is cooling his heels after being arrested Thursday for
According to the Palm Beach Post, Vanilla Ice, real name Robert Van Winkle was booked at 10:43 p.m. ET Thursday on a single count of simple domestic battery after wife Laura Van Winkle called the cops to report that her husband was hitting and kicking her.
Deputies arrived at their Florida home around 7:15 p.m. and tracked down Ice on his motorcycle about two blocks away from the house.
Per the arrest report, Laura appeared uninjured and, contrary to what she said on the phone, told the deputies on site that Van Winkle had only pushed her and she wanted a divorce.
“He started yelling at me for going out to buy a bedroom set, in front of my daughter,” she said, per the report. “I’m sorry, I can’t say any more until I talk to an attorney.”
Ice meanwhile had his side of the story. Reportedly he told police that his wife is bipolar and, despite being on medication, tends to get irrational and argumentative. Before the cops arrived, she had thrown a picture frame off of their balcony to the ground below, where it shattered near their 8- and 10-year-old children, he said. He didn’t push Laura, he added, and had only hopped on his motorcycle to cool down and get away from her, not the cops.
What about protecting the supposed endangered kids?
A Palm Beach County Sheriff’s spokesperson said the Ice would cool his heels in jail overnight before appearing in court in the morning, the usual protocol for suspected domestic violence cases.
This is not the first incident between Ice and his wife. Ice was locked up in 2004 for a previous domestic battery charge in Broward County, Fla., according to the Post.
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