After documenting her life on Don’t Be Tardy, Kim Zolciak-Biermann‘s daughter Ariana Biermann made headlines for an incident exterior of actuality TV.
Us Weekly confirmed in August 2022 that Ariana was arrested after being concerned in a automobile crash. Amid her authorized points, the Bravo persona denied ingesting and driving earlier than the car collision.
“Ariana was concerned in a minor fender bender. When police arrived on scene, the investigating officer instantly initiated an investigation for DUI,” her lawyer, Justin Spizman, mentioned in a press release on the time. “Regardless of Ariana’s fixed invocation that she was upset and anxious from the minor accident, the officer incorrectly concluded she was impaired by alcohol. That was not the case. She wholly denies these allegations and intends to struggle these prices as a result of she shouldn’t be responsible of them.”
In keeping with a police report obtained by Us, the officer who arrived on the web site of the accident claimed that Ariana didn’t seem like sober. “I suggested [Ariana] that I may odor the odor of an alcoholic beverage on her breath. She acknowledged the odor was presumably from her clothes,” he wrote, referring to his observations. “Ariana acknowledged she had smoked a THC vape pen the night time earlier than however didn’t drink.”
The report continued: “I carried out subject sobriety evaluations with Ariana and noticed indicators of impairment. I noticed that she had a noticeable sway in the course of the evaluations,” including {that a} fellow officer carried out a Horizontal Gaze Nystagmus (HGN) check and “noticed 4 out of six clues.”
The police officer recalled Ariana refusing to “present a breath pattern to the preliminary breath check” on the scene. She allegedly additionally modified her thoughts about giving a blood check after her arrest. In Could 2025, Ariana was sentenced to 24 months probation, $2,000 in fines and 40 hours of group service after pleading responsible to reckless driving and possession and use of drug associated objects. Different prices, together with a DUI, have been dropped by prosecutors.
Ariana first rose to fame when her mom landed a actuality sequence following her time on The Actual Housewives of Atlanta. Don’t Be Tardy, which ran from 2012 to 2021, targeted on Kim’s household life with husband Kroy Biermann.
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