Savannah Chrisley’s older brother Kyle Chrisley pleads guilty to resisting arrest after allegedly assaulting a police officer

Kyle Chrisley entered a guilty plea to resisting arrest in connection with a December 2025 arrest in which he was accused of assaulting a police officer.Kyle, 35, the older brother of Savannah Chrisley, 29, pleaded guilty to the charge during a September hearing, according to court records Us Weekly reviewed.In the same court session, other charges Kyle was indicted on – including a count of disorderly conduct, a count of public intoxication, three counts of retaliation for past action and three counts of assault on law enforcement – were dismissed.The Daily Mail has reached out to representatives for Kyle Chrisley for further comment on the story.In the initial incident, the one-time Chrisley Knows Best star had been taken into custody on December 20, 2025 and placed into the Rutherford County Adult Detention Center in Murfreesboro, Tennessee.Authorities said at the time that Kyle’s wife Ashleigh Nelson had been behaving in a ‘belligerent’ manner and claimed he was walking in the middle of a road while she was trailing him in her vehicle. Kyle Chrisley, 35, entered a guilty plea to resisting arrest in connection with a December 2025 arrest in which he was accused of assaulting a police officer. Pictured following his arrest  News of Kyle’s legal status comes as it was announced his younger sister Savannah Chrisley, 29, (pictured in 2024) is expecting her first child with fiancé Jason Galanis, 56Kyle ‘became immediately aggressive’ when law enforcement showed up and tried to speak with him, according to the report.Officials said that Kyle had ‘charged at deputies and began to throw punches and assault deputies,’ injuring three officers, according to the report.Kyle had been accused of ‘unlawfully and knowingly’ assaulting a law enforcement official by ‘striking said officer with his hand or fist,’ the outlet reported, citing an indictment in the case this past June.Kyle had been accused of vowing ‘to kill’ the officer in the wake of his arrest; and of using ‘force’ to resist being taken into custody, the indictment stated.Officials said in the indictment that Kyle appeared to have been ‘under the influence of a controlled substance, controlled substance analogue or any other intoxicating substance.’He was ‘in a public place with intent to cause the public annoyance,’ according to the indictment reviewed by the outlet.Kyle has a past legal history, having been arrested in March of 2023 following a conflict with a co-worker at a Penske Rental Truck facility in Smyrna, Tennessee.News of Kyle’s legal status comes as it was announced his younger sister Savannah Chrisley, 29, is expecting her first child with fiancé Jason Galanis, 56, who pleaded guilty in 2020 to orchestrating two financial fraud operations, one of which targeted a Native American tribe and investors for millions.  Kyle pictured with father Todd Chrisley and stepmother Julie Chrisley  Todd and Savannah Chrisley pictured in Nashville in May of 2025 In March 2025, President Donald Trump commuted Galanis’s sentence, months before he issued pardons for Todd and Julie Chrisley on their 2022 bank fraud and tax evasion convictions.At the time, prosecutors said Todd and Julie had taken out millions in bank loans under fraudulent circumstances. The Chrisleys were also accused of hiding income to avoid paying taxes on it.Todd Chrisley and Galanis had actually served prison time at the same Florida facility over an eight-month span in 2023.  In May of last year, Trump said that the Chrisleys had been ‘given a pretty harsh treatment based on’ what he had heard.Savannah, who endorsed Trump in a 2024 speech at the Republican National Convention, said Trump officials had ‘seen the corruption’ at play in her parents’ case.’I didn’t have to do anything other than stand firm in my beliefs and my convictions and fight for my parents,’ she said at the time.