Christy makes uneventful Alaska visit

ANCHORAGE — A Pennsylvania man accused of stalking Wasilla residents Sarah Palin and Kristan Cole made an uneventful trip to Anchorage Friday and Saturday.

Shawn Christy, 19, of McAdoo, Penn., made his first trip to Anchorage — and first trip on a jet plane — on an Alaska Airlines jet that landed early Friday morning. He stayed in a Spenard hotel, had lunch at the Fancy Moose in the Millennium Hotel that afternoon and flew home to Pennsylvania Saturday morning.

The Mat-Su Valley Frontiersman met Christy in Anchorage Friday for an exclusive interview.

He said he paid $350 each way for tickets to fly to Alaska for 30 hours or so. He did not have a rental car, he said, and did not leave Anchorage — except by plane to fly home.

Palin and Cole filed, and were granted, 20-day protective orders against Christy in September 2010 after they told the court that they had received receipts from him for the purchase of a gun, a one-way plane ticket and a call from him on a phone with a 907 area code.

The protective order was later extended until April.

Christy said he plans to hire an attorney and fight the order if the two ask the court to extend the protective order farther.

“I’d like to eventually get it thrown out,” he said.

Before traveling to Alaska, Christy said he verified with law enforcement and legal authorities in Pennsylvania that his trip to Anchorage would not violate the protective orders, which prohibits contact with the Palin and Cole families and limits how near he can come to locations where they live or frequent.

Contact Heather A. Resz at heather.resz@frontiersman.com or 352-2268.