Zach Bryan has finally gotten some good news.
The country singer, 28, will not face charges stemming from his arrest for obstruction last year.
Craig County, Oklahoma District Attorney’s Office spokesperson Michelle Lowry told TMZ on Thursday that prosecutors agreed in May to defer filing charges against Bryan for a period of 6 months.
Since that time, prosecutors believe Bryan has stayed out of trouble and have consequently agreed to drop the case completely.
Bryan was arrested Sept. 7, 2023 in northeast Oklahoma on an obstruction of investigation charge over an altercation he had with police when his security guard was pulled over for speeding.
Dashcam footage obtained by TMZ showed the “Heading South” singer bringing his car up alongside his security’s white SUV after the cops stopped the guard for speeding.
When the chart-topping crooner got out of his truck, a police officer told him to get back inside or he’d be taken into custody. That exchange triggered an argument which led to Bryan being cuffed and placed in the front seat of a police cruiser, where he got increasingly incensed.
“F–king cops are out of hand, truly,” the Oologah, OK, native said.
The star went on to brag about knowing every law enforcement officer in Oklahoma before making derogatory remarks about the cops, calling them nothing more than a bunch of middle-aged white guys going around and arresting people.
Bryan apologized shortly after the arrest. “Emotions got the best of me and I was out of line in the things I said,” he shared in a statement posted on Instagram.
News that Bryan was off the hook for his September 2023 arrest comes as the Grammy winner is embroiled in an ongoing saga over his breakup with Barstool Sports personality Brianna Chickenfry, aka Brianna LaPaglia.
In October, Bryan announced their breakup after more than one year of dating on his Instagram Story — to LaPaglia’s surprise.
While she confirmed they ended their relationship, she claimed she was “blindsided” that he revealed the news to the world just days after their split.
Chickenfry roasted him on her “BFFs” podcast with Dave Portnoy and Josh Richards, claiming she was offered $12 million to keep quiet about their relationship. She turned down the money and exposed his alleged anger issues — including revealing that he screamed at her friends during her birthday party, ruined her time at the Golden Globes and “freaked out” when he heard her singing a Morgan Wallen song.
“One morning I, like, woke up — or I was, like, scrolling TikTok — and ‘Last night we let the liquor talk’ was stuck in my head,” she said on the podcast last week, quoting the lyrics to Wallen’s hit “Last Night.”
“I walk up the stairs in the New York apartment, and I’m singing — like, I’m about to make breakfast or something — ‘Last night we let the liquor talk.’ He freaked the f–k out. Like, freaked the f–k out. He could not believe [it],” the influencer explained.
Chickenfry claimed an angry Bryan screamed, “You’re singing another man’s song under my roof, in this house that I own,” adding she also wasn’t “really allowed to listen to Noah Kahan” either.
“The last year of my life has been the hardest year of my life dealing with the abuse from this dude,” she told Portnoy and Richard.
“I’m still scared right now because I’m scared of him,” LaPaglia admitted. “My brain’s rewired and I’m scared to make him mad and last week, I didn’t want to talk about it ’cause I was scared.”
LaPaglia claimed those stories were just the tip of the iceberg, and her podcast co-hosts wasted no time to defend her.
Portnoy and Richard torched Bryan with a diss track called “Smallest Man.” The Barstool founder followed that insult up with another diss, “Country Diddy.”
In the second hit, Portnoy doubled down on Chickenfry’s claims that her ex was allegedly emotionally abusive and asked her to sign a $12 million NDA to stay silent after their split.
Bryan and Chickenfry met at the Academy of Country Music Awards in May 2023 and officially became an item that July.
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