Country music star Zach Bryan has been acquitted in his ongoing case stemming from an arrest in Oklahoma last year.
Michelle Lowry, spokeswoman for the Craig County Oklahoma District Attorney’s Office, said TMZ On Thursday, Bryan, 28, followed through on agreements he made with officials following his arrest in September 2023 by the Oklahoma Highway Patrol.
Bryan followed through on a deal with prosecutors he made in May, saying he would avoid any legal entanglements for a six-month period starting last May, with Thursday as the deadline.
Bryan, who has recently made headlines for his acrimonious October split with Barstool Sports podcaster Brianna Chickenfry, 25, has “stayed out of trouble since” and is eligible to have his case dropped, the newspaper reported. half.
Bryan was arrested on September 7, 2023, by the Oklahoma Highway Patrol and briefly jailed in northeastern Oklahoma, according to a video posted to his account on the social media site X, formerly Twitter.
Bryan said he was driving in Vinita, about 55 miles (88 kilometers) northeast of Tulsa, when an officer stopped his security guard, who was driving behind him.
Country music star Zach Bryan, 28, has been acquitted in his ongoing case stemming from an arrest in Oklahoma last year. Photographed in Nashville in June.
Bryan was arrested on September 7, 2023 by the Oklahoma Highway Patrol and briefly jailed in northeastern Oklahoma.
Bryan, who is from Oologah, about 25 miles (40 kilometers) northeast of Tulsa, said he also stopped and after 10 to 15 minutes, got out of his vehicle to smoke a cigarette when the officer told him to return to the vehicle. or be taken to jail.
Bryan said he swore at the officer, who then handcuffed him and placed him in the patrol car.
“I get too angry with him,” Bryan said. “I’m just talking like an idiot” and the officer was “just doing his job.”
Bryan said he spent “a few hours” in the Craig County Jail before being released on bond and that he spoke with the officer and shook his hand before leaving.
Bryan at the time said on X that he was “very sorry to the officers” and that it was out of line.
“I don’t think I’m above the law, I was just being disrespectful… I was just an idiot… and it won’t happen again,” Bryan said in the video. “I just felt frustrated at the time, it wasn’t like me and I apologize.”
Bryan scored his first No. 1 album in September 2023. Billboard reports that Bryan’s self-titled album sold 200,000 units last week, putting him at the top of Billboard’s Top 200 Albums chart.
Bryan, in a duet with Kacey Musgraves, had the No. 1 song on the Billboard Hot 100 last year with I Remember Everything.