“Love Island USA” star Hannah Smith has been arrested for allegedly threatening to kill a cop.
The 26-year-old reality star was charged with making terroristic threats and willful obstruction of a law enforcement officer for the Sept. 30 incident outside Atlanta, according to police documents obtained by TMZ. Both charges are felonies.
Smith was reportedly released from Cobb County Jail on $8,000 bond the following day.
The bottle server was allegedly acting disorderly at a concert venue in Atlanta when she was escorted out. An on-scene police officer tried to take her to an Uber, at which point she allegedly attempted to punch the cop. She was cuffed when authorities say she subsequently tried to kick the cop more than once.
Smith was arrested and while en route to jail repeatedly threatened to kill both the officer and their sister, says the outlet.
Though she has posted multiple times on Instagram since Sept. 30, Smith has yet to remark publicly on the arrest.
Smith is best known to audiences from the sixth and most recent season of the U.S. iteration of “Love Island,” which aired from mid-June to early July. During her short stint on the reality hit, she had a fling with Kendall Washington, though she was voted off the island on Day 10.
Washington, 27, then cozied up with 26-year-old Nicole Jacky until the finals, but they ultimately split.
Smith’s arrest is the latest shake-up to the international franchise, whose fan base was rocked in August when fans learned that Molly Lae Hague and Tommy Fury, of the beloved U.K. predecessor, had ended their five-year relationship just three weeks after celebrating the anniversary of their July 2023 engagement.
BAFTA-winning “Love Island” debuted in the U.K. in 2015, with the American version taking this side of the pond by storm since 2019, airing first on CBS and now Peacock.
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