Zachery Ty Bryan was sentenced to 16 months in jail on Monday, February 23rd, following his arrest in February 2024 on DUI charges. The 'Home Improvement' actor, now 44, was charged with felony DUI and a misdemeanor for alleged contempt of court in La Quinta, California.
According to court records obtained by PEOPLE, Bryan pleaded guilty to the DUI charge and admitted to an enhancement related to having two prior DUI convictions. In addition to the 16-month jail sentence, Bryan was denied probation. He has already served 57 days in jail, meaning he will spend over 14 months behind bars.
Furthermore, Bryan is due in court in Lane County, Oregon, on March 2nd for a probation violation hearing related to a domestic violence conviction from July 2023. He was arrested by the Eugene Police Department following a report of a physical dispute and was held on charges of Assault in the Fourth Degree APA (Abuse Prevention Act), third-degree robbery, and misdemeanor harassment. In October 2023, he pled guilty to "felony assault in the fourth degree constituting domestic violence" and was sentenced to seven days in jail.
However, on November 29th, 2025, he violated his probation from a prior domestic violence charge in Oregon. Bryan and his fiancée, Johnnie Faye Cartwright, were both arrested that day. Cartwright, 32, was later arraigned and pleaded not guilty to one count of driving under the influence, two counts of recklessly endangering another person, and three counts of reckless driving.
At his December 3rd arraignment, Bryan denied the charges of violating his probation. He was placed at Lane County Community Corrections without bail and released on December 10th. On December 29th, he admitted to three probation violations, and his probation officer recommended that he serve the entirety of the 19-to-20-month sentence he originally faced in connection with a 2023 domestic violence conviction.
The recent California sentencing and forthcoming Oregon hearing come amid several arrests in the past five years. In 2020, he was initially charged with felony strangulation, fourth-degree assault, and interfering with making a police report after an argument with Cartwright. He pleaded guilty to two misdemeanor domestic violence charges instead and served seven days in jail and was placed on 36 months of probation.
He was then arrested for the aforementioned July 2023 domestic violence charges. Then in 2024, he was arrested twice on DUI-related charges, including the February 2024 arrest in La Quinta and another in Oklahoma in October 2024 for driving a motor vehicle while under the influence and driving with a canceled/suspended/revoked license. Less than a year later, in January 2025, he was arrested in South Carolina on second-degree domestic violence charges after allegedly "choking" Cartwright and "punching her in the face," according to a police report.
