Zachery Ty Bryan, best known as Brad Taylor on Home Improvement, was arrested early Friday morning in Custer County, Oklahoma, for a second felony DUI offense.
According to arrest documents obtained by TMZ, police found Bryan asleep in the back seat of his car around 6:47 a.m., initially speaking to him before letting him be.
Later, however, officers spotted him driving and conducted a traffic stop, during which Bryan allegedly admitted to being intoxicated.
Dashcam footage obtained by TMZ shows officers administering field sobriety tests, which, according to the report, Bryan failed.
When asked to rate his level of sobriety from 0 to 10, Bryan reportedly rated himself a five. He refused a breathalyzer test on-site and was subsequently taken into custody.
This is not Bryan’s first run-in with the law; he has a history of DUI arrests, including one earlier this year in February.
Zachery Ty Bryan, best known as Brad Taylor on Home Improvement, was arrested early Friday morning in Custer County, Oklahoma , for a second felony DUI offense
Bryan had rose to national fame in the 1990s as the eldest child on Home Improvement, which also starred Tim Allen and future teen heartthrob Jonathan Taylor Thomas
This incident came just months after he served seven days in jail and received a 36-month supervised probation sentence for assaulting his ex-girlfriend.
The actor has spent the last several years in legal trouble related to domestic violence.
In October 2023, the actor plead guilty to felony assault in the fourth degree constituting domestic violence in an Oregon court.
As part of a negotiated resolution, according to The Hollywood Reporter, a second count was dismissed, and rather than him spending ’19 to 20 months’ in Oregon Department of Corrections, he received a ‘downward dispositional departure’ to three years of supervised probation and just a week in jail.
Bryan was also forced to ‘abide by a set of conditions typical of domestic violence cases’ that include ‘no contact with the victim without the probation officer’s approval, alcohol and substance abuse treatment, and no alcohol and drug use moving forward.’
‘Mr. Bryan decided to accept this resolution and admit that he recklessly caused physical injury to his domestic partner to avoid further trauma to his family so they could move on and heal,’ Lane County’s Chief Deputy District Attorney Chris Parosa said in a statement at the time.
If he violates any conditions of his parole, the actor will have to serve ’19 to 20 months of prison time that the court suspended under the deal.’
While speaking about his client’s guilty plea, Bryan’s lawyer told The Wrap: ‘He believes this is the manner he could best resolve this to avoid further trauma to his family.’
In the summer of 2023, he was arrested for fourth-degree felony assault in Eugene, Oregon for getting physical with a woman, who was not named by authorities.
According to arrest documents obtained by TMZ , police found Bryan asleep in the back seat of his car around 6:47 a.m., initially speaking to him before letting him be; ( mugshot in October 2020)
Later, however, officers spotted him driving and conducted a traffic stop, during which Bryan allegedly admitted to being intoxicated; (pictured here on Home Improvement with Tim Allen)
Bryan was charged with a pair of felonies and a misdemeanor in connection with the July incident: assault, robbery and harassment.
In October of 2020, Bryan was arrested on accusations he assaulted and strangled his fiancée Johnnie Faye Cartwright, and in February 2021, he entered guilty pleas to two misdemeanor domestic violence charges in connection with the incident.
Cartwright, who got engaged to the actor in November of 2021, shares three young children with him: one-year-old daughter Kennedy, and five-month-old twins Parker and Sequoia.
She told US Weekly in a statement: ‘I ask everyone to please be respectful of our privacy for the sake of the children and our families so the healing process can begin.’
‘I’ll always want what’s best for the father of my children,’ Cartwright told the publication of Bryan, adding that ‘trauma can bring struggles in many shapes and forms,’ while giving her take on the reporting of the recent incident.
‘It’s a horrible situation that’s going to be spun in so many ways,’ she said. ‘I’ve learned firsthand the truth will never align with what’s been put out there.’
The former child star claimed in an interview with The Hollywood Reporter that the physical altercation in October of that year started because his girlfriend at the time, Johnnie Faye Cartwright, was upset he was ‘living a double life’ and was still married — even though he had announced his divorce two weeks earlier.
He later plead guilty to two misdemeanor counts of menacing and assault in the fourth degree and was sentenced to a three-year probation and attendance in a violence intervention program, and was ordered to have no further contact with the victim.
Bryan said at the time he now tries to stay away from alcohol, and he and Cartwright were still together and were now raising their children.
He rose to national fame in the 1990s as the eldest child on Home Improvement, which also starred Tim Allen and future teen heartthrob Jonathan Taylor Thomas.
Home Improvement was considered one of the biggest sitcom hits of the 1990s
The actor has spent the last several years in legal trouble related to domestic violence; seen in 2016 with his ex-wife Carly Matros
In recent years, he has become a conservative commentator on FOX News and The Daily Wire
After the show ended in 1999, Bryan turned to film roles and earned guest spots on television shows like Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Boston Public and Veronica Mars.
He then became an executive producer on independent films, and married his high school sweetheart Carly Matros in 2007.
They would go on to have four children that they raised together in a multi-million dollar home in Newport Beach, California. The youngest, a son, was born in March 2019, joining three daughters — including a set of twins.
In more recent years, Bryan has made a name for himself as a conservative commentator on platforms like FOX News and The Daily Wire.