Oregon police arrested “Dwelling Enchancment” actor Zachery Ty Bryan over the Thanksgiving weekend, including to his years-long authorized troubles.
The Lane County Sheriff’s workplace confirmed the 44-year-old former baby star’s arrest in a Fb assertion shared Monday. Regulation enforcement arrested Bryan and and his fiancée, Johnnie Faye Cartwright, on Saturday round 12:30 p.m. after officers responded to a report of reckless endangerment close to a well-liked tenting web site about 30 miles from Eugene, the assertion mentioned.
The couple was touring in a pickup truck with their three young children when, at one level, the actor exited the car and began strolling on the street. Cartwright, 32, allegedly “tried to run over Bryan, crashing the truck with the kids inside into the ditch,” in response to the assertion. Bryan moved out of the best way, and nobody contained in the automobile was injured.
Deputies spoke to Bryan and Cartwright and “noticed indicators each had been impaired,” the assertion added. Neither representatives for Bryan nor Cartwright instantly responded to The Instances’ requests for touch upon Monday.
Jail information present that Bryan was booked on Saturday on suspicion of violating probation on a fourth-degree felony assault cost stemming from a home violence conviction in 2023. Cartwright was additionally booked Saturday on suspicion of first-degree tried assault, three counts of reckless endangering one other individual and driving underneath the affect.
Each Bryan and Cartwright are in custody as of Monday, with the previous set to be launched on Wednesday. It’s unclear when and if Cartwright might be launched.
Their three youngsters had been positioned with a member of the family, officers mentioned.
Bryan’s arrest on Saturday marks his sixth arrest over 5 years. In January, Bryan was arrested and charged in Myrtle Seaside, S.C., on suspicion of second-degree home violence. Cartwright was the girl Bryan allegedly assaulted throughout that incident, Folks reported. He was launched after posting $10,000 bail.
The actor, who additionally appeared in “The Quick and the Livid: Tokyo Drift,” confronted two DUI arrests in 2024, in February in California and in October in Oklahoma. In 2023, Bryan was arrested and pled responsible to felony assault within the fourth diploma. Bryan, as a part of his sentence, was positioned underneath 36 months of supervised probation and ordered to observe a set of situations typical of home violence instances, in response to the Hollywood Reporter.
On the time, he was ordered to chorus from contacting his sufferer with out his probation officer’s permission, to endure alcohol and substance abuse therapy and to keep away from alcohol and drug use. The Lane County Sheriff’s Workplace accuses Bryan of violating that order, writing he was “not purported to keep up a correspondence with Cartwright.”
Bryan was additionally arrested in 2020 on suspicion of strangulation and assault. These expenses stemmed from a dispute involving his girlfriend on the time. Police mentioned Bryan allegedly assaulted the girl, impeded her respiration, and took her telephone away when she tried to name 911.
The actor is finest recognized for starring as Brad Taylor in “Dwelling Enchancment,” the eldest baby of the present’s core household. The ABC Sitcom aired from 1991 to 1999 and starred Tim Allen, Patricia Richardson, Jonathan Taylor Thomas and Taran Noah Smith. “Dwelling Enchancment” stars Richardson, Richard Karn, and Debbe Dunning reunited with co-star Allen for the Season 2 of his sequence “Shifting Gears” in October.
