‘Home Improvement’ star Zachery Ty Bryan arrested for domestic violence

Zachery Ty Bryan, who starred as the eldest son of Tim Allen’s lead actor on the ABC sitcom “Home Improvement,” was arrested Thursday afternoon in Myrtle Beach, S.C. and charged with second-degree domestic violence. County booking and release records show the 43-year-old former actor remains in custody and is being held on a $10,000 bond.

Bryan has had numerous run-ins with the law in recent months. In October, the actor was arrested in Oklahoma on charges of driving under the influence and driving without a valid driver’s license. He had been arrested eight months earlier on a misdemeanor charge of driving under the influence and for contempt of court.

This isn’t Bryan’s first arrest on domestic violence charges. In February 2021, he was charged with assault, third-degree theft and assault in Oregon. He was arrested for allegedly choking his then-girlfriend, Johnny Faye Cartwright, in 2020. He pleaded guilty to a fourth-degree felony, serving a week in jail and 36 months of supervised probation. Cartwright and Bryan married in 2021 and share three children. He was arrested again in July 2023 and charged with domestic violence for a second time.

Bryan played Brad, the eldest Taylor child, on the ’90s sitcom “Home Improvement,” and starred in all eight seasons of the show. The show premiered when Bryan was nine years old and ended when he was 17. During the show, he also appeared in films such as ‘First Kid’ and made cameo appearances in ‘The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air’ and ‘Reading Rainbow’. ” After more credits like “The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift,” “Smallville,” “Veronica Mars” and “Burn Notice,” Bryan retired from acting in 2009.