Former Teen Mom star Ryan Edwards walked right into a Hamilton County, Tennessee courtroom on Tuesday morning anticipating to have a routine listening to in entrance of a choose and to stroll again out once more. The 35-year-old actuality TV vet had pled responsible to driving below the affect and easy possession virtually precisely a month in the past as a part of a deal following an arrest for driving 145 miles per hour in a 65 mile per hour zone.
But issues did NOT go as deliberate for Ryan in Judge Gary Starnes‘ courtroom. Instead, the choose and the prosecutor ganged up on Maci Bookout‘s ex… and he was unexpectedly hauled away in handcuffs to await the outcomes of a drug check!
Like we mentioned, Tuesday morning was simply meant to be a check-in at Hamilton County General Sessions Court in entrance of Judge Starnes. Ryan arrived in a white shirt and black slacks, seen in pics in The US Sun, and his dad was there, too. Per that outlet, his mom was curiously absent from the courtroom regardless of showing in any respect of his hearings previous to Tuesday.
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The drama started even earlier than Ryan — who shares 14-year-old son Bentley with Maci along with son Jagger, 4, and daughter Stella, 3, with ex Mackenzie Edwards (pictured above, backside proper) — might be referred to as earlier than Judge Starnes. Early within the listening to, Hamilton County District Attorney Coty Wamp slammed the MTV alum. Wamp questioned what Ryan has been doing since he was launched from Oasis Halfway House in Chattanooga in November. Referencing a November 25 incident during which Ryan was booted out of a Chattanooga bar, and lamenting how he wasn’t doing any of his drug and alcohol abuse counseling check-ins, Wamp mentioned:
“I would be interested to see if he could pass a drug screening. Last time was November 8, the same time he was released from Oasis. It raises concern he could fail a drug screening. If he’s not doing CADAS [Council for Alcohol & Drug Abuse Services] outpatient [programs], he’s not doing the support groups. Can we drug test him in court today, judge?”
Judge Starnes agreed a drug check could be relevant — and informed DA Wamp that she wanted to get a screener all the way down to the courtroom:
“Yes, if you can get someone down here.”
An hour later, with the drug check en route, DA Wamp indicated they have been going to take samples from Ryan and have them again by Friday. She additionally talked about how the embattled ex-reality star has not taken his most up-to-date vivitrol shot, which is a substance used to dam the results of opioids and alcohol — implying he doesn’t wish to block these results anymore:
“He is late for his vivitrol shot. He was supposed to get it on November 17. We know what happens when you go longer than a month. The rehab representative believes it is way past overdue. That would correspond with his behavior at the bar. He was drug-screened yesterday. By Friday we will have those results back.”
Then, she requested the court docket take Ryan into custody on Friday if he does NOT go the drug check outcomes:
“The state would ask he be taken into custody if he does not pass. He agreed to submit a report on his continuing care and follow-up. He hasn’t done it. If he does not do that by Friday and show he went to AA. … If he doesn’t go, if he fails drug screens, the state will file this petition.”
But Judge Starnes took issues one step additional!! Instead of ready for the outcomes to return again on Friday, the choose furiously famous that his “patience is gone” with Edwards. So, he ordered the well-known father to be arrested and incarcerated ASAP:
“He’s going into custody. He was told to do it. My patience is gone. You had chance after chance after chance. The results will be back Friday.”
Per the Sun, Ryan tepidly requested for his likelihood to talk earlier than going to jail:
“Your honor, can I speak?”
But the choose was agency in his denial:
“No, you can’t.”
DAMN!
And with that, Edwards was handcuffed on the spot and yanked out of the courtroom. Now, he’ll stay in jail for the following three days till a court docket look on Friday morning. In that listening to, the world will presumably be taught the outcomes of DA Wamp’s drug check.
Pretty intense — and it’s notable that the choose had a extra punitive mindset than the DA. Usually it’s the prosecutor who is asking for extra, the protection legal professional who is asking for much less, and the choose who falls someplace inside that spectrum. But in Ryan’s case, Judge Starnes is VERY clearly over it. Yeesh!! Reactions, Perezcious readers??
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