“1000-Lb Sisters” star Amy Slaton Halterman was arrested at a Tennessee zoo and charged with drug possession and child endangerment, police said.
Deputies with the Crockett County Sheriff's Office responded to Tennessee Safari Park in Alamo, about 80 miles northeast of Memphis, after a report of a guest being bitten by a camel.
Upon arrival, officers “immediately noticed a suspicious odor coming from the customer's vehicle.” The sheriff's office.
Slaton was arrested and charged with unlawful possession of Schedule I and Schedule VI drugs and two counts of child endangerment.
It is unclear what drugs she allegedly had in her possession.
Police say Brian Scott Lovebourn was also in the car and was arrested on the same charges.
Both were booked into the Crockett County Jail.
Additional details were not immediately released.
Slaton and her estranged husband, Michael Halterman, separated last year in a messy divorce.
Halterman asked that the court “keep the parties 500 feet apart at all times” and enter a “civil restraining order” requiring both parties to remain “500 feet away from the other's residence.”
Slaton and Halterman eloped in 2017 and then had a formal wedding in 2019, which was documented on the popular TLC series.
The couple split less than a year after Slaton gave birth to their son, Glen Allen, in July 2022. Their other son, Gage, was born in November 2020.
When season one of “1000-Lb Sisters” premiered in January 2020, Slaton weighed more than 400 pounds.
After undergoing gastric bypass surgery, she lost another 136 pounds, weighing 275 pounds.
