Amy Slaton Halterman, the “1000-Lb. Sisters” star who was arrested Monday after visiting a Tennessee zoo, was wheeled out of the safari park on a stretcher moments before her arrest.
Photos obtained on Tuesday by TMZ It shows paramedics carrying Halterman, 36, into an ambulance as she holds a piece of cloth in one of her arms. The outlet suggested Halterman was nursing a wound she received when a zoo camel allegedly bit her.
“This was no ordinary Labor Day in Crockett County,” the county Sheriff's Department said in a statement Monday. statement.
When officers arrived to investigate the alleged incident at Tennessee Safari Park, “they were immediately surprised by suspicious odors coming from the guest's vehicle,” the statement said.
Officers said they found marijuana and psychedelic mushrooms, along with two young children, in Halterman's car. The TLC personality was later arrested on suspicion of unlawful possession of Schedule I and VI drugs and child endangerment.
A man who was with Halterman inside the vehicle, Brian Scott Lovvorn, was also arrested on suspicion of the same charges, and both were booked into the Crockett County Jail, authorities said. Before being booked in, Halterman was taken to a hospital for treatment of an arm injury that may have been caused by the camel, Stephen Sutton, a public information officer for the Crockett County Sheriff’s Department, said Tuesday.
Halterman was released Tuesday afternoon on $10,000 bail, along with Lovvorn. People The couple were reportedly seen “holding hands” as they left police custody on Wednesday.
Halterman's children were placed in the custody of a family member after their mother's arrest, the outlet reported.
