1000-lb Sisters star Amy Slaton attends court to face drugs and child endangerment charges after zoo camel incident

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1000-lb Sisters star Amy Slaton appeared in court on Thursday to face drugs and child endangerment charges – days after her arrest at a Tennessee zoo.

Slaton, 36, was reportedly bitten by a camel at Tennessee Safari Park in Alamo on Labor Day – but when police were called to the park for the bite they noted ‘suspicious odors’ coming from their vehicle, according to the deputies. 

Responding officers discovered ‘what they believed to be mushrooms’ and ‘what they believed to be marijuana’ inside Slaton’s vehicle after smelling marijuana in the car and seeing the drugs out ‘in plain sight.’

Slaton and friend Brian Scott Lovvorn were arrested and face charges of illegal possession of schedule I, illegal possession of schedule VI and two counts of child endangerment. 

Two children under the age of eight were in the car at the time of the arrest – Slaton’s children Gage Deon, four, and Glenn Allen, two. Tammy Slaton reportedly picked up the children after the arrest.

1000-lb Sisters star Amy Slaton appeared in court on Thursday to face drugs and child endangerment charges - days after her arrest at a Tennessee zoo

1000-lb Sisters star Amy Slaton appeared in court on Thursday to face drugs and child endangerment charges – days after her arrest at a Tennessee zoo 

Slaton who was seen frowning in a mugshot, was arrested after officers attending to her camel bite, found 'magic mushrooms and marijuana' in her car

Slaton who was seen frowning in a mugshot, was arrested after officers attending to her camel bite, found ‘magic mushrooms and marijuana’ in her car 

Slaton looked stony-faced as she arrived for her arraignment – as her lawyer doubled down on her claim she had been bitten by a camel.

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She received medical treatment at the zoo and was pictured being wheeled out of a Tennessee safari park on a stretcher with a bandage around her forearm.

Tennessee Safari Park co-owner Claude Conley, 44, denied Slaton had been bitten, telling The US Sun ‘there is no bruising. She cut her arm on something, it’s not consistent with an animal bite.

‘Her boyfriend or the man she was with was acting crazy, screaming and yelling and all kinds of stuff.

‘He got mad that the police came out there because he just wanted the ambulance to come.’

Attorney Taylor Hughes told TMZ she was definitely attacked by the animal and said Slaton had thanked her fans for sending love and support amid her legal woes. 

Slaton and Lovvorn were booked into the Crockett County Jail on on $10,000 bond – with a representative confirming the pair were released on Tuesday. 

The representative told the publication: ‘Amy’s brother Chris Combs and Hughes bonding company bonded both of them out together from Crockett County jail and they left with Chris.’

Slaton and friend Brian Scott Lovvorn (pictured in court together) were arrested and face charges of illegal possession of schedule I, illegal possession of schedule VI and two counts of child endangerment.

Slaton and friend Brian Scott Lovvorn (pictured in court together) were arrested and face charges of illegal possession of schedule I, illegal possession of schedule VI and two counts of child endangerment.

Slaton looked stony-faced as she arrived for her arraignment - as her lawyer doubled down on her claim she had been bitten by a camel

Slaton looked stony-faced as she arrived for her arraignment – as her lawyer doubled down on her claim she had been bitten by a camel

Police were called to the park in Alamo on Labor Day and said they immediately noted strange odors coming from Slaton's vehicle

Police were called to the park in Alamo on Labor Day and said they immediately noted strange odors coming from Slaton’s vehicle

DailyMail.com contacted representatives for Slaton for comment. 

Slaton finalized her divorce from ex-husband Michael Halterman last year.

The couple share two children and had reportedly clashed over their appearance on the TLC reality show. 

The pair welcomed their first child, Gage Deon, in November 2020 and their second son, Glenn Allen, in July 2022.

‘There was no support. There was no love. There was no kindness. There was just mental abuse,’ she told People of their marriage. ‘I just got tired of hiding it from people.’ 

A confrontation between her, her sisters and Michael was shown on season five of the series.

Lovvorn is pictured in his mugshot

 Lovvorn is pictured in his mugshot

‘That’s the day I left,’ she said. ‘But I was falling out of love with him before that.’

After a lengthy custody battle, the former couple decided to share parenting duties. 

Amy rose to fame starring opposite her sister Tammy Slaton on the series 1000-Lb. Sisters. The fifth season of the show premiered late last year.

The star has dropped an impressive 176 pounds ever since having weight loss surgery five years ago.

Slaton introduced fans to a new man before her divorce was finalized and was dating a Michigan man named Tony, the US Sun reports. 

By the time her divorce was finalized the couple had been together for around three months.