Republican gubernatorial candidate Adam Laxalt was arrested on suspicion of assaulting a police officer in June 1996, according to police report summaries obtained by the Reno Gazette-Journal.
Records show Laxalt was 17 years old and living in Alexandria, Virginia when he was arrested along with a woman charged with underage possession of alcohol.
Laxalt told the Gazette-Journal he was drinking underage at the woman's house when police were called to the home.
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He has been public about his teenage struggles with alcohol, including a 1997 DUI arrest in Virginia and his decision to enter a rehab facility at age 18.
He said the assault charges leveled against him were dismissed.