Husband of Wasilla mayor arrested for DUI

August 12, 2007

BY GREG JOHNSON/Frontiersman

WASILLA - The husband of city Mayor Dianne M. Keller was arrested in the early morning hours Wednesday following a single-car automobile accident.

David Keller, 45, was arrested and held on $3,000 bail after nearly hitting another vehicle and crashing into a ditch at the intersection of Knik Goose Bay Road and Enter Place, the Wasilla Police Department reports.

Keller was driving southbound on Knik Goose Bay Road when he nearly struck a northbound vehicle head-on, according to a police department report. He overcorrected and drove 320 feet in a ditch. The vehicle became airborne at Enter Place, then came to rest.

Keller was not injured and was remanded to the Mat-Su Pre-Trial Facility in Palmer on suspicion of driving under the influence, reckless driving and resisting arrest, the report says.

Wasilla Mayor Dianne Keller declined to comment in detail about her husband's arrest, but said he received no special treatment from police because he is married to the city's mayor.

&#8220I would like to report that the Wasilla Police Department employees handled this like any other case, giving him no special considerations because of my position,” she says in a prepared statement.

The mayor says she was out of town at the time of the incident and &#8220was happy to learn that no one was injured.”

Calling the situation a &#8220personal matter,” Dianne Keller thanks the community for &#8220allowing us to work though this as a family.”

Contact Greg Johnson at 352-2268 or greg.johnson@frontiersman.com.