Anchorage Police Arrest Lance Mackey's Wife for Assault

By Amberia Hill and Chris Klint Channel 2 News KTUU

5:58 p.m. AKST, January 17, 2012

ANCHORAGE, Alaska—

Anchorage police arrested Tonga Mackey, the wife of four-time Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race champion Lance Mackey, at a Spenard hotel on misdemeanor assault charges Monday night.

According to APD spokesperson Lt. Dave Parker, witnesses say Mackey, 42, assaulted one of her family members in the foyer and parking lot at the Millennium Alaskan Hotel.

Mackey was held overnight Monday without bail and arraigned Tuesday afternoon.

Police believe alcohol was a factor.

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jason lisa Mackey at 7:17 AM January 18, 2012

Timber you are 100 percent right she is a liar

Timber at 12:23 AM January 18, 2012

Jane Stevens was never an Iditarod handler. She is a PETA operative and a liar.

BlueMonkey101909 at 7:17 PM January 17, 2012

I wonder if she also beats the sled dog she and Lance own. Jane Stevens, a former Iditarod dog handler, describes a dog beating in her letter published by the Whitehorse Star (Feb. 23, 2011). She wrote: "I witnessed the extremely violent beating of an Iditarod racing dog by one of the racing industry's most high-profile top 10 mushers. Be assured the beating was clearly not within an 'acceptable range' of 'discipline'. Indeed, the scene left me appalled, sick and shocked. After viewing an individual sled dog repeatedly booted with full force, the male person doing the beating jumping back and forth like a pendulum with his full body weight to gain full momentum and impact. He then alternated his beating technique with full-ranging, hard and fast, closed-fist punches like a piston to the dog as it was held by its harness splayed onto the ground. He then staggeringly lifted the dog by the harness with two arms above waist height, then slammed the dog into the ground with full force, again repeatedly, all of this repeatedly."

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