‘1,000-Lb. Sisters’ star banned from zoo in plea deal
Amy Slaton Halterman appears in court to plead guilty to drug charges on Thursday, Dec. 19, 2024 (WLBT).
“1000-lb Sisters” reality TV star Amy Slaton Halterman admitted to drug charges stemming from her arrest at a drive-through safari park in Tennessee, where deputies found her in a car with marijuana, mushrooms and her two kids after she called police to report a camel bit her.
As part of the plea deal, she and her co-defendant, Brian Scott Lovvorn, were sentenced on Thursday to two years probation, ordered to pay $1,000 and were barred from the Tennessee Safari Park. A felony marijuana charge was reduced to simple possession, and two child neglect charges were dismissed.
“This is the Season of Giving and we understand that Amy Halterman and Brian Lovvorn are the pride and joy of the State of Kentucky and they will now be back in Kentucky for the Holidays,” Crockett County District Attorney General Frederick Agee said in a statement to Memphis CBS affiliate WREG.
As Law&Crime reported, the incident unfolded at the park, where guests can drive through in their cars and view the animals, including camels, up close.
The Crockett County Sheriff’s Office, heading its press release with “FROM FEEDING A CAMEL TO THE SLAMMER” and commenting on the “no ordinary Labor Day” nature of the case, said its investigation began with a report of a guest bitten by a camel and led to a car with “suspicious odors.”
Investigators said the mushrooms and marijuana were in the vehicle and that children were endangered at the time.
“Upon arrival, deputies were immediately overtaken by suspicious odors coming from the guest’s vehicle,” authorities said, appearing to identify the car as Slaton Halterman’s and Brian Lovvorn as a passenger.
Both were taken to the Crockett County Jail on two child endangerment counts and drug possession charges, the sheriff’s office said.
Slaton Halterman has appeared on five seasons of “1000-Lb. Sisters” along with her sister Tammy, a show on their lives and weight loss journeys.
Slaton Halterman, after losing nearly 200 pounds, became a mother of two sons, has said, “[b]eing a mom is what I’ve wanted to do since I was 5 years old and I’ve always wanted two kids.”
But in the aftermath of a divorce last year from her husband Michael, the father of her children, she said the state of her mental health was the “worst it’s ever been.”
Matt Naham contributed to this report.
