‘1,000-lb. Sisters’ star arrested for drug possession and child endangerment at zoo: police
“1,000-Lb. Sisters” star Amy Slaton Halterman was arrested at a Tennessee zoo and charged with drug possession and child endangerment, according to police.
Deputies with the Crockett County Sheriff’s Department responded to the Tennessee Safari Park in Alamo — about 80 miles northeast of Memphis — after a guest there was bitten by a camel.
The sheriff’s department said when they arrived officers were “immediately alarmed by a suspicious odor coming from the guest’s vehicle.”
Slaton was arrested and charged with unlawful possession of Schedule I and Schedule VI drugs and two counts of child endangerment.
It’s unclear what drugs he allegedly had in his possession.
Brian Scott Lovvorn was also in the vehicle and faces the same charges, police said.
Both were booked into the Crockett County Jail.
No additional details were immediately available.
Slatten and her estranged husband Michael Halterman split last year in a messy divorce.
Halterman requested that the court “issue a civil restraining order” that keeps both parties “500 feet away from each other at all times” and forces them to remain “500 feet away from the other party’s residence.”
Slaton and Halterman eloped in 2017 before having a formal wedding in 2019, which was documented on the popular TLC series.
They split less than a year after Slaton gave birth to son Glenn Allen in July 2022. Their second son, Gauge, was born in November 2020.
During Season 1 of “1000-Lb. Sisters,” which premiered in January 2020, Slaton weighed over 400 pounds.
Following gastric bypass surgery, she lost 136 pounds, bringing her weight down to 275 pounds.