The country singer Sam Hunt was arrested for speeding: Reporting

Sam Hunt has been arrested for speeding and cutting a joint device.

Hunt, 40, was taken to Tennessee prison on January 20, Tmz Reported on Wednesday, January 29. According to the outlet, Hunt was released the same day on a $ 1,500 bond.

The country singer representative told TMZ on Wednesday that Hunt will not be charged for the incident and will pay his speeding ticket.

The arrest came more than five years after the artist “Body as a Backpack” take into custody for DUI After driving down the road the wrong road in Nashville around November 2019. He pleaded guilty to two Misburable DUI charges in August 2021, and was sentenced to 11 months and 29 days in prison including DUI First Transe and Dui Per Se, Weekly US confirmed at the time.

“When officers arrived behind the vehicle the driver had difficulty staying in the travel lane and crossed the center partition several times before starting,” noted a police report following the Hunt Arrest in 2019. “Once the stop was started And making a contact, an obvious smell was consistent with an alcoholic beverage coming from the defendant as well as red blood and watery eyes. ”

The musician’s blood alcohol content had been .173 while the legal limit was .08, according to the arrest warrant. A few hours later, Hunt was released on a $ 2,500 bond.

The croser apologize for his actions the next day through social media. “Thursday night I decided to drive myself home after drinking at a friend’s show in downtown Nashville,” he tweeted. “It was a poor and selfish decision and I apologize to everyone who was unknowingly put in danger.”

Hunt insisted, “It won’t happen again.”

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Hunt is a singer-songwriter nominated by Grammy best known for hits such as “Take Your Time,” “House Party,” “Hard to Forget” and “Outskirts.” In 2017 he married Hunt Hannah Lee FowlerWas also the inspiration behind his Montevallo Album, after dating on and off for almost a decade.

The pair briefly separated in 2022, with Fowler indicating “inappropriate marital behavior” and “adultery” his divorce docsfiled while she was pregnant with their first child.

Couple later reconciledand pulled back their divorce papers before welcoming Lucy Louise’s daughter in May 2022 and her son Lowry Lee in October 2023. They announced in November 2024 that they were Expect a third child.