Caroline Biden: Niece of Vice President Joe Biden Resisted Arrest & Lunged At Police Officer [PHOTOS]
Caroline Biden, the 26-year-old niece of Vice-President Joe Biden, was arrested Tuesday in New York City after she allegedly got physical with police officers trying to break up a fight between her and her roommate.
According to The New York Daily News, police were called to Biden's Desbrosses Street apartment building in Tribeca just after 9 a.m. when the doorman called them because of a loud argument occurring on the third-floor. When they arrived, cops found Biden and her roommate arguing over rent money Biden owed.
Biden became physical with the cops for filling out a report, prompting her arrest.
"The female officer started to fill out the paperwork, and Biden objected to it and lunged at the female officer," a source told the newspaper. "She kinda swung at the officer. The male officer intervened and Biden became uncooperative and aggressive."
Once at the 1st Precinct stationhouse, she continued to resist her arrest, reportedly clinging to the bars of a jail cell as cops tried to get her inside.
She became ill there around 4:30 p.m. and was transported to a hospital. As she left the precinct, she was photographed wearing a white sheet over her head. She told cops she hadn't taken medication for a pre-existing heart condition.
Biden was issued a desk appearance ticket on charges of misdemeanor obstruction of governmental administration, resisting arrest and harassment with physical contact.
Biden is the daughter of the vice-president's brother, James Biden Sr.
Both Biden's parents and the vice-president's office had no comment on the arrest.
A maintenance worker for the apartment building told the News that Biden and her roommate share a one-bedroom apartment with a monthly rent between $3,000-$5,00o. he also said Biden's roommate kicked her out last week for not paying her share.
Biden, a Georgetown University graduate wh0o works at an Upper East Side art gallery has been in trouble with the law before. In 2009, she was briefly detained by Amtrak police at a station in Wilmington, Del., because of a "misunderstanding over a train fare," officials said at the time.
