Home Improvement actor Zachery Ty Bryan arrested for DUI

Zachery Ty Bryan, champion known arsenic Brad Taylor connected Home Improvement, was arrested early Friday greeting successful Custer County, Oklahoma, for a 2nd felony DUI offense.

According to apprehension documents obtained by TMZ, constabulary recovered Bryan dormant successful nan backmost spot of his car astir 6:47 a.m., initially speaking to him earlier letting him be.

Later, however, officers spotted him driving and conducted a postulation stop, during which Bryan allegedly admitted to being intoxicated.

Dashcam footage obtained by TMZ shows officers administering section sobriety tests, which, according to nan report, Bryan failed. 

When asked to complaint his level of sobriety from 0 to 10, Bryan reportedly rated himself a five. He refused a breathalyzer trial on-site and was subsequently taken into custody. 

This is not Bryan’s first run-in pinch nan law; he has a history of DUI arrests, including 1 earlier this twelvemonth successful February.

This incident came conscionable months aft he served 7 days successful jailhouse and received a 36-month supervised probation sentence for assaulting his ex-girlfriend. 

The actor, has spent nan past respective years successful ineligible problem related to domestic violence.

In October 2023, nan character plead blameworthy to felony battle successful nan 4th grade constituting domestic violence successful an Oregon court.

As portion of a negotiated resolution, according to The Hollywood Reporter, a 2nd count was dismissed, and alternatively than him spending '19 to 20 months' successful Oregon Department of Corrections, he received a 'downward dispositional departure' to 3 years of supervised probation and conscionable a week successful jail. 

Bryan was besides forced to 'abide by a group of conditions emblematic of home unit cases' that see 'no interaction pinch nan unfortunate without nan probation officer's approval, intoxicant and constituent maltreatment treatment, and nary intoxicant and supplier usage moving forward.' 

'Mr. Bryan decided to judge this solution and admit that he recklessly caused beingness wounded to his home partner to debar further trauma to his family truthful they could move connected and heal,' Lane County's Chief Deputy District Attorney Chris Parosa said successful a connection astatine nan time. 

If he violates immoderate conditions of his parole, nan character will person to service '19 to 20 months of situation clip that nan tribunal suspended nether nan deal.'

While speaking astir his client's blameworthy plea, Bryan's lawyer told The Wrap: 'He believes this is nan mode he could champion resoluteness this to debar further trauma to his family.' 

In nan summertime of 2023, he was arrested for fourth-degree felony battle successful Eugene, Oregon for getting beingness pinch a woman, who was not named by authorities. 

Bryan was charged pinch a brace of felonies and a misdemeanor successful relationship pinch nan July incident: assault, robbery and harassment. 

In October of 2020, Bryan was arrested connected accusations he assaulted and strangled his fiancée Johnnie Faye Cartwright, and successful February 2021, he entered blameworthy pleas to 2 misdemeanor home unit charges successful relationship pinch nan incident.

Cartwright, who exchanged rings to nan character successful November of 2021, shares 3 young children pinch him: one-year-old girl Kennedy, and five-month-old twins Parker and Sequoia.

She told US Weekly in a statement: 'I inquire everyone to please beryllium respectful of our privateness for nan liking of nan children and our families truthful nan treatment process tin begin.'

'I'll ever want what's champion for nan begetter of my children,' Cartwright told nan publication of Bryan, adding that 'trauma tin bring struggles successful galore shapes and forms,' while giving her return connected nan reporting of nan caller incident.

'It's a horrible business that's going to beryllium spun successful truthful galore ways,' she said. 'I've learned firsthand nan truth will ne'er align pinch what's been put retired there.'

The erstwhile kid prima claimed successful an question and reply pinch The Hollywood Reporter that nan beingness altercation successful October of that twelvemonth started because his woman astatine nan time, Johnnie Faye Cartwright, was upset he was 'living a double life' and was still joined — moreover though he had announced his divorcement 2 weeks earlier.

He later plead guilty to 2 misdemeanor counts of menacing and battle in nan 4th grade and was sentenced to a three-year probation and attendance successful a unit involution program, and was ordered to person nary further interaction pinch nan victim.

Bryan said astatine nan clip he now tries to enactment distant from alcohol, and he and Cartwright were still together and were now raising their children.

He roseate to nationalist fame successful nan 1990s arsenic nan eldest kid connected Home Improvement, which besides starred Tim Allen and early teen heartthrob Jonathan Taylor Thomas.

After nan show ended successful 1999, Bryan turned to movie roles and earned impermanent spots connected tv shows for illustration Buffy nan Vampire Slayer, Boston Public and Veronica Mars.

He past became an executive shaper connected independent films, and joined his precocious schoolhouse sweetheart Carly Matros successful 2007. 

They would spell connected to person 4 children that they raised together successful a multi-million dollar location successful Newport Beach, California. The youngest, a son, was calved successful March 2019, joining 3 daughters — including a group of twins.

In much caller years, Bryan has made a sanction for himself arsenic a blimpish commentator connected platforms for illustration FOX News and The Daily Wire.

In September 2020, Bryan announced he and Matros were getting a divorcement — and successful a ridiculous twist he appeared to person plagiarized Armie Hammer's divorcement announcement almost connection for word. 

He now admits to The Hollywood Reporter: 'I was conscionable successful statement freaking mode — making movies, traveling, drinking. I wasn't surviving nan measurement I was raised, you cognize what I mean?

'I was not being a religious husband, and I was not being nan champion me,' he continued. 'I thought I would beryllium capable to spell retired and do immoderate I wanted, person fun, travel location and beryllium a family man pinch my kids. That's not really nan existent world works.' 

Just 16 days aft nan divorcement announcement, successful October of 2020, Bryan was arrested successful Oregon and charged pinch felony strangulation, fourth-degree assault, coercion, menacing, harassment and interference pinch making a constabulary report.

The astir superior charges, including felony strangulation, were later dropped and he pleaded blameworthy to 2 misdemeanors. 

He was besides ordered by nan tribunal not to 'buy, person aliases devour alcoholic beverages' aliases beryllium successful immoderate spot that sells aliases serves intoxicant arsenic its superior purpose.

It was his 2nd apprehension of 2020, aft being booked for DUI that May. He plead blameworthy successful that lawsuit arsenic well, and was sentenced to 5 years probation and 18 months successful a multiple-offender intoxicant programme owed to a grounds of different DUI arrests successful 2004, 2007 and 2017.

According to Oregon constabulary records obtained by The Hollywood Reporter, Cartwright claimed that connected nan nighttime of nan alleged assault, Bryan, pinch whom she had been successful a 'sexually intimate' narration for 2 years, woke her up demanding to cognize what happened to his cellphone charging cables.

She alleged that he 'pulled her hair' and punched her successful nan look aggregate times.

The 2 past fell connected a group of stairs, astatine which point, nan constabulary study says, Bryan 'grabbed Cartwright's cervix pinch some hands and choked her' for astir 45 seconds.

Responding officers said they saw aggregate injuries connected Cartwright, who claimed Bryan became abusive a period earlier. But Bryan claimed Cartwright woke him up and spot him successful nan groin.

He alleged that her injuries were self-inflicted successful an effort to group him up because she 'wanted to ruin his career' aft he said he wanted to break up and extremity paying her rent.

'I heard her show dispatch, 'This is nan feline from Home Improvement. He's nan celebrated guy,'' Bryan reportedly told officers connected nan scene.

Looking back, he says nan apprehension 'got truthful blown retired of proportion' by nan media, and claims it was not arsenic beingness arsenic nan constabulary study states.

He explained that he and Cartwright began seeing each different erstwhile he was still joined and location were times she would get upset complete his 'double life.'

And moreover though he announced his divorce, Bryan claimed nan conflict escalated that nighttime because they had some 'been drinking excessively much.

'We didn't moreover really get that physical,' he said. 'We sewage really loud. We were screaming and because we were successful a townhome that had [thin walls], everybody could hear.'

He continued to opportunity Cartwright 'was astatine nan clip conscionable really upset astir my situation.'

And, he claimed, 'At nan extremity of nan day, [the police] propulsion a bunch of counts astatine you because they yet want you to plead something,' noting that cops nicknamed him 'Country Club Zach' and seemed to flick nosy astatine his fame.

'I could've fought it... but that's much accent and drama,' Bryan explained. 'I sewage 2 misdemeanors and called it a day.'

But he said he now acknowledgment God for his arrest, describing it arsenic a 'wake up call.'

'I went done a business that I'm beautiful judge plentifulness of group crossed nan globe acquisition pinch their partners, and that was a learning experience,' Bryan said.

He acknowledged he 'definitely [has] an rumor pinch drinking' but does not judge nan word 'alcoholic' applies to him.

'Dude, I started drinking erstwhile I was 14,' he said.  'Back past I was going to nightclubs and they would conscionable fto maine successful because I was nan kid from Home Improvement.'

Now, he says, he tries to enactment distant from alcohol, explaining: 'I'm not going retired and getting lit, and that takes distant a batch of my problems.'

He and Cartwright were still together anterior to his latest arrest.

In November 2021, conscionable 1 twelvemonth aft his arrest, Bryan revealed that he and Cartwright were engaged to beryllium married.

Based connected nan timeline of his now backstage Instagram account, The Hollywood Reporter found, Cartwright was already pregnant pinch a woman astatine nan time.

He announced nan commencement connected nan societal media level successful outpouring 2022.

That November, Bryan besides revealed that he and Cartwright were expecting twins, and she gave commencement successful May.