It has been revealed that Teen Mom alum Ryan Edwards was arrested for stalking after he texted his ex-wife Mackenzie Edwards, which was a violation of the protection order.
us weekly reports that the former reality star was arrested on Wednesday, March 1, for stalking, which is a violation of a protective order in Hamilton County, Tennessee.
According to legal documents, Edwards texted his ex-wife Mackenzie Edwards (née Standifer) on more than one occasion after being alerted on February 10 that he was legally unable to have any contact with her.
‘My God, I don’t have to live my life without you! I’m sorry!’ she wrote in a text on February 19. The father-of-three then reached out to her again in a text on February 23, writing: “For what it’s worth, I’m sorry and I miss you.”
This latest arrest comes just days after his wife MacKenzie filed for divorce from Edwards, obtained a restraining order against him and was also awarded temporary custody of the couple’s children Jagger, 5, and Stella. , out of two, as reported by MY! News.
Arrested again! Former Teen Mom star Ryan Edwards, 35, was arrested Wednesday, March 1, for violating a protective order issued to his ex-wife Mackenzie Edwards in Hamilton County, Tennessee;
Ryan was previously served with an Order of Protection by Hamilton County Sheriff’s Office personnel on February 9, ordering him to immediately leave the residence where his wife currently lived, police said in a news release.
The next day, Mackenzie went to the Hamilton County Sheriff’s Office to report that her estranged husband posted revealing photos of her and accused her of cheating on his Instagram account.
“If you’ve never seen boneless shit, this is one,” Edwards is alleged to have written alongside a photo of his estranged wife topless.
He added: ‘They take your money and sleep with anything that looks at them. But they must have a wife to [sic]. God what a joke It’s really sad.
Authorities later discovered that Ryan had violated the protection order by communicating with his father-in-law.
While investigating the rape, officers discovered that Ryan had a warrant for harassment, filed by MacKenzie of the Chattanooga Police Department.
Police would then arrest him at his workplace for the harassment warrant and violation of a protection order, along with possession of drug paraphernalia and a controlled substance.
Following the social media post, Mackenzie, 26, told police about multiple domestic violence cases Edwards has been involved in since they were married in 2017 after meeting at a gym in Chattanooga, Tennessee.
Arrested: According to legal documents obtained by Us Weekly, Edwards texted Mackenzie (née Standifer) on more than one occasion after being alerted on Feb. 10 that he legally couldn’t have any contact with her.
Edwards, who has been accused of domestic violence by his estranged wife, was also arrested in February on charges of stalking and violation of a protection order; the Tennessee native is pictured after his arrest last month
Legal troubles: This latest arrest comes just days after his wife MacKenzie filed for divorce from Edwards, obtained a restraining order against him, and was also awarded temporary custody of the couple’s children Jagger, five, and Stella, two, as reported by E. ! News
Happier times: The former couple tied the knot in 2017 after meeting at a gym in Chattanooga, Tennessee. They are parents to son Jagger, four, and daughter Stella, three.
Mackenzie told police her estranged husband “drilled through the walls and doors” and held her “by the neck against the wall” during a fight last month.
She also accused Edwards of throwing her “into the hallway and said if he couldn’t have me, no one could” and “opened [his] pocket knife’ and put it on her ‘back as if to kill her’.
And what’s worse: Mackenzie maintained that the entire incident took place in front of her children.
“I tried to leave, he broke my phone, he took my car keys,” Mackenzie said, adding that a co-worker contacted authorities in the wake of the incident.
Father of Three: Edwards is also the father of Bentley, 14, with Maci Bookout, 31, with whom he was seen on the MTV series 16 & Pregnant.
The Chattanooga, Tennessee, native told police that a week later, Edwards was violent towards her again. This time she claimed that Edwards “went into the bedroom where [she] he was lying down… pretending he was going to punch him [her] face’ while yelling at him.
She added that after Edwards broke the bed she was lying on at the time, she “went to find [her] children and go away’, but he did not leave her.
Mackenzie later said that he ‘threw [her] under in [the] living room’ and ‘poured menthol nicotine into [her] eyes.’
Mackenzie received a temporary protection order.
Edwards, Mackenzie and their parents were fired from the Teen Mom OG show in 2021 following an incident with Bookout and her spouse, Taylor McKinney (pictured), according to The Sun
His drug problems were later chronicled on the network’s popular series Teen Mom.
In March 2018, he was arrested in connection with a probation violation for a prior drug conviction, after which his ex-Bookout, with whom he shares a 14-year-old son Bentley, obtained a restraining order against him. .
He was subsequently arrested later that year after being busted with heroin in his possession, eventually serving a three-month prison term in connection with the incident.
Edwards, Mackenzie, and their parents were fired from the Teen Mom OG show in 2021 following an incident with Bookout and her spouse, Taylor McKinney, according to The Sun.