White nationalist Matthew Heimbach arrested after trailer park fight over alleged affair

The co-founders of an Indiana-based white nationalist party – Matthew Heimbach and David Parrott – got into a fight Tuesday at a Paoli trailer park after Parrott confronted his wife and Heimbach over an affair, according to a police report. 

Heimbach, the 26-year-old co-founder of the Traditionalist Worker Party, was arrested and charged with battery and domestic battery Tuesday by Paoli police. He was freed on $1,000 bond. 

The incident could have additional legal ramifications for Heimbach, who pled guilty in July to physically harassing a woman during a rally in Louisville for Donald Trump.

District Court Judge Stephanie Pearce Burke waived 90 days of jail time on the condition he not re-offend within two years.  

Heimbach is scheduled for a review of the Louisville case this year. He did not return a phone call to his cellphone or a text message seeking comment. 

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David Parrott, the 35-year-old co-founder and spokesman of the white nationalist group, called Paoli police from a Walmart parking lot at 1 a.m. Tuesday and said he'd been assaulted by his wife, Jessica Parrott, 31, and Heimbach, according to a police report obtained by Courier Journal. 

David Parrott claims his wife and Heimbach were having an affair, according to a police report. So he and Heimbach's wife — who is Parrott's former stepdaughter from another marriage — went to Parrott's trailer around midnight to see if a tryst was taking place.

They snuck up on the trailer, where Parrott climbed up on a box to peer through a window, police said. But the box broke, and Parrott ran to the front door to confront Heimbach. 

"I demanded that they leave my property and he refused," David Parrott said.

The two men grappled and Heimbach choked Parrott several times, causing him to lose consciousness, according to the police report. When he came to, Parrott drove to Walmart to call police. 

When police arrived at the trailer, Heimbach told his wife to send the police away and "tell them everything was fine," the report said.

"My husband asked me to dismiss the police at my door," a signed statement from Heimbach's wife said. "I refused, he kicked the wall, and then grabbed my cheeks making them bleed ..."

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The incident occurred in front of the Heimbachs' two children, a 2-year-old and a 7-month-old, according to the police report.

Parrott said Heimbach's wife was in "immediate danger" because she had a recording of Heimbach and Parrott's wife, according to a police report. 

After the confrontation, Parrott resigned from the Traditionalist Worker Party, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center. 

“I’m done. I’m out,” Parrott told the Southern Poverty Law Center on Tuesday. “SPLC has won. Matt Parrott is out of the game. Y’all have a nice life.”  

Every person involved in the Paoli incident identified their professions as "White Nationalists" in the police report. 

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