Atlanta Housewife NeNe Leakes’s Son Arrested on Weapons Charge
Mar 31st, 2010 by Bilal Ali
NeNe Leakes’s son Bryson Bryant was arrested Tuesday for possession of a controlled substance and carrying a weapon, a Gwinnett County Sheriff’s Department official confirms to PEOPLE.
Byrant, who has appeared on The Real Housewives of Atlanta with his mother, was released from a Gwinnett County Detention Center at 3:35 a.m. “The charges say he was in possession of a controlled substance and weapon by jail inmates,” the law enforcement official tells PEOPLE. “That means he had a weapon with him when he was arrested for possession of a controlled substance.”
This is the second arrest for Byrant this month.
On March 7, he was arrested on a minor marijuana possession charge and was placed in an Atlanta-area jail. At the time, Leakes issued a statement calling the arrest a “family issue” and pledging that she would handle it “in a private manner.” Said Leakes at the time: “My son is not the first young adult to experiment with marijuana, and he certainly won’t be the last. Still, as parents, this is a chance for us to have an open dialogue with him about the dangers of any substance abuse. I realize as a parent that my job is never done. And as I’ve tweeted, tough love was in order.”