Lindsie Chrisley was arrested Saturday night on suspicion of driving under the influence in Concord, Ga., after a police report said she was clocked at 86 mph on a surface street and kept driving past multiple places she could have stopped before pulling over at a Chevron station.
The 36-year-old was booked on five counts, including DUI less safe, attempting to elude police, improper passing, reckless driving and speeding. Her bail on the charges totaled $5,961, and she was released from custody around 4:15 a.m. Sunday morning.
A deputy’s report said Chrisley’s explanations did not add up, her speech was slurred and her breath smelled of alcohol. The report also said she refused field sobriety tests and declined a blood test, details that will matter if prosecutors decide to press the case and build it around the stop itself rather than her account of what happened.
Chrisley told TMZ she was pulled over while speeding past a car on a two-lane road because they almost hit an animal. She said the animal was enough to explain the move and that she intended to fight the charges, rejecting the suggestion that the stop was about anything more than trying to avoid the collision. “I got pulled over speeding past a car on a two-lane road because they almost hit an animal,” she said, adding, “whatever the animal was,” and, “that is exactly why” she is “not going anywhere.”
Chrisley is best known for appearing in 20 episodes of Chrisley Knows Best from 2014 into 2017 and now hosts The Southern Tea podcast. She is one of Todd Chrisley’s two children with his first wife, Teresa Terry, and her arrest lands as the family remains tied to the legal fallout that has shadowed them for years.
Todd and Julie Chrisley were convicted in 2022 of bank fraud and tax evasion and were serving prison terms at separate facilities before President Trump pardoned them in 2025. Todd Chrisley received a 12-year sentence and Julie Chrisley received seven years, a punishment that kept the family in the headlines long after their reality show ended.
The family split had already been deep. Lindsie Chrisley had been estranged from her parents for years over their suspicion that she had squealed to state and federal officials, and Todd and Julie Chrisley sued the state of Georgia in 2019 over allegations involving a tax official and confidential tax information. Her own legal troubles come just weeks after her then-boyfriend David Landsman was arrested in mid-April in Cherokee County on a felony charge of aggravated assault/strangulation and a misdemeanor charge of battery.
For Chrisley, the immediate question is no longer what she told police on the roadside but what the arrest report and her refusal to take sobriety tests mean once the case reaches court. The stop ended in a jail cell, a five-count booking and a public fight she says she is ready to wage.
