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Star of ‘1,000-lb Sisters’ arrested at Tennessee zoo for drug possession and child endangerment


Star of ‘1,000-lb Sisters’ arrested at Tennessee zoo for drug possession and child endangerment

Reality TV star Amy Slaton Halterman was arrested on Labor Day at a Tennessee zoo on drug charges and child endangerment.

Halterman, 36, who stars with her sister on the TLC series “1,000-lb Sisters,” was charged Monday with illegal possession of Schedule I and VI substances and two counts of endangering a child, the Crockett County Sheriff’s Department said.

Officials had responded to a 911 call that a guest at Tennessee Safari Park, a zoo that can be explored by car or on foot, in Alamo had allegedly been bitten by a camel.

When officers arrived, they were “immediately surprised by suspicious odors coming from the guest’s vehicle,” the sheriff’s office said.

Authorities did not disclose the cause of the odor, but said Halterman and Brian Scott Lovvorn were in the vehicle and both face the same charges.

They were booked into the Crockett County Jail. A judge set bail for each of them at $10,000 on Tuesday.

Halterman has two children, Gage Deon Halterman, 4, and Glenn Allen Halterman, 2, with Michael Halterman, who filed for divorce in March 2023, People magazine reports.

It is unclear who was bitten by the camel and whether Halterman’s children were with her at the time of the incident.

“1,000-lb Sisters” first aired on TLC in 2020 and tells the story of two Kentucky sisters — Halterman and her older sister Tammy — on their weight loss journey.

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