Country music star Zach Bryan has been cleared in his ongoing case stemming from an arrest in Oklahoma last year.
Michelle Lowry, a spokesperson for the Craig County branch of Oklahoma District Attorney’s Office, told TMZ Thursday that Bryan, 28, has fulfilled agreements he made with officials in the wake of his September 2023 arrest by the Oklahoma Highway Patrol.
Bryan fulfilled the agreements of a deal with prosecutors he made in May, saying he would avoid any legal entanglements for a six-month timeframe beginning this past May, with Thursday as the deadline.
Bryan – who has made headlines as of late for his acrimonious October split with Barstool Sports podcaster Brianna Chickenfry, 25 – has ‘stayed out of trouble since then’ and eligible for his case to be dropped, the outlet reported.
Bryan was arrested September 7, 2023 by the Oklahoma Highway Patrol and jailed briefly in northeastern Oklahoma, according to a video posted on his account on the social media site X, formerly Twitter.
Bryan said he was driving through Vinita, about 55 miles (88 kilometers) northeast of Tulsa when his security guard, who was driving behind him, was stopped by an officer.
Country music star Zach Bryan, 28, has been cleared in his ongoing case stemming from an arrest in Oklahoma last year. Pictured in Nashville in June
Bryan was arrested September 7, 2023 by the Oklahoma Highway Patrol and jailed briefly 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 get back inside the vehicle or be taken to jail.
In a clip obtained by TMZ, Bryan was seen clashing with law enforcement, telling a police officer he felt that ‘f***ing cops are out of hand, truly.’
Bryan said on X that he cursed the officer, who then handcuffed him and placed him in the patrol vehicle.
‘I get too lippy with him,’ Bryan said. ‘I’m just mouthing off like an idiot’ and the officer was ‘just doing their job.’
Bryan said he spent ‘a few hours’ at the Craig County jail before being released on bond and that he spoke to the officer and shook hands with him before leaving.
Bryan at the time said on X he is ‘truly sorry to the officers’ and that he was out of line.
‘I don’t think that 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 was just frustrated in the moment, it was unlike me and I apologize.’
Bryan earned his first number-one album in September of 2023. Billboard reports Bryan’s self-titled album moved 200,000 units this past week, putting it at the top of the Billboard 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.
