Zachery Ty Bryan sentenced to more than a year in jail for DUI

Zachery Ty Bryan will be behind bars for a while.

The Home Improvement actor has pleaded guilty to a felony DUI charge that came after a February 2024 arrest in La Quinta, Calif., according to court records reviewed by Entertainment Weekly.

Bryan pleaded guilty to a felony charge of driving under the influence with a blood alcohol content of .08 or higher on Monday. He pleaded not guilty to another DUI felony charge and a misdemeanor property damage charge, which were both dismissed.

Bryan, who portrayed Tim Allen’s young son Bradley Michael “Brad” Taylor on Home Improvement, was sentenced to 16 months in county jail. He faced enhanced punishment because he had existing DUI convictions prior to Monday’s. According to online court records, the actor has 27 days of credit for time already served in jail and another 26 days of credit under California Penal Code Section 4019.

EW has reached out to a representative for Bryan for comment.

The First Kid star, who retired from acting in 2009, has faced a long saga of legal trouble over the last six years. He was first arrested in Lane County, Ore., in 2020 on a felony charge of strangulation and misdemeanor charges of assault and interfering with a police report. Two months later, he instead pleaded guilty to two misdemeanor counts, menacing and assault in the fourth degree constituting domestic violence, and was sentenced to 36 months of bench probation. 

He was arrested again in Eugene, Ore., in July 2023 on charges of felony assault, third-degree robbery, and assault. He ultimately pleaded guilty to felony assault in the fourth degree and served seven days in jail and 36 months of supervised probation.

Eight months after the incident in La Quinta, Bryan was arrested for another alleged DUI in Custer County, Okla., in October 2024. Three months later, he was taken into custody in Myrtle Beach, S.C., and charged with second-degree domestic violence in January 2025.

In November 2025, Bryan was arrested in Lane County again after allegedly violating his probation from his previous domestic violence conviction, which he denied. He was hit with five separate charges: three counts of reckless endangering, one count of driving under the influence, and one count of attempted first-degree assault.

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Bryan’s other screen credits include The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift, The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Smallville, and ER. He briefly came out of retirement to play a small role in Netflix’s The Guardians of Justice in 2022.