Grand Old Police Blotter: The Fighting Keenes Edition

American Conservative Union chairman and former NRA bigwig David Keene (the Elder) was the subject of a police investigation at the site of the Conservative Political Action Committee's annual Conference O' Chuckleheads in a suburb of Washington D.C.:

"Yes, something happened," ACU spokesman Ian Walters confirmed yesterday. "But there were no handcuffs, no fight, no knockdown, no charges and no escort out."

Turns out a hotel security guard made an assault-and-battery report saying Keene pushed him after he tried to block Keene from entering a restricted area. Police investigated but the local magistrate declined to issue an arrest warrant. Police would not release the name of the alleged "victim," and the hotel management wouldn't return phone calls. Keene told us he and the guard "bumped chests."

Fortunately for the security guard, Keene wasn't packing heat.