Country music star Zach Bryan has been acquitted in his ongoing case stemming from an arrest in Oklahoma last year.
Michelle Lowry, spokesperson for the Craig County Division of the Oklahoma District Attorney’s Office, said TMZ On Thursday, Bryan stated that he has fulfilled the agreements he made with officials following his arrest in September 2023 by the Oklahoma Highway Patrol.
Bryan followed through on agreements he made with prosecutors in May, saying he would avoid any legal entanglements for a six-month period beginning last May, with a deadline of Thursday.
Bryan has “stayed out of trouble since then” and is eligible to have his case dropped, the outlet reported.
Bryan was arrested by the Oklahoma Highway Patrol on September 7, 2023, and briefly jailed in northeastern Oklahoma on Thursday, according to a video posted to his account on the social media site X, formerly Twitter.
Bryan said he was driving through Vinita, about 55 miles 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 acquitted in his ongoing case stemming from an arrest in Oklahoma last year. Pictured in Nashville in June
Bryan followed through on agreements he made with prosecutors in May and said he would avoid any legal entanglements for a six-month period beginning last May, with a deadline of Thursday.
Bryan, who is from Oologah, about 25 miles northeast of Tulsa, said he also stopped and got out of his car after 10 to 15 minutes to smoke a cigarette when the officer told him to get back in the vehicle or be taken to prison.
Bryan said he cursed the officer, who then handcuffed him and placed him in the patrol vehicle.
“I’m getting too lippy 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 bail and that he spoke with the officer and shook his hand before leaving.
Bryan said on X at the time that he is “really sorry to the officers” and that he went too far.
“I don’t think I’m above the law, I was just disrespectful…I was just an idiot…and it won’t happen again,” Bryan said in the video. “I was just frustrated at the time, it was unlike me and I apologize.”
Bryan earned his first number one album in September 2023. Billboard reports that Bryan’s self-titled album sold 200,000 copies last week, putting it at the top of the Billboard 200 albums chart.
Bryan had the #1 song on the Billboard Hot 100 last year in a duet with Kacey Musgraves with I Remember Everything.