{"id":288369,"date":"2020-02-18T12:34:00","date_gmt":"2020-02-18T19:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/b1123973"},"modified":"2020-02-18T12:34:00","modified_gmt":"2020-02-18T19:34:00","slug":"hayden-panettieres-boyfriend-brian-hickerson-arrested-for-domestic-battery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/music-news\/hayden-panettieres-boyfriend-brian-hickerson-arrested-for-domestic-battery\/","title":{"rendered":"Hayden Panettiere&#8217;s Boyfriend Brian Hickerson Arrested for Domestic Battery"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/akns-images.eonline.com\/eol_images\/Entire_Site\/2020118\/rs_600x600-200218102830-600x600-Brian_Hickerson-mugshot-gj-2-18-20.jpg?fit=around|600:467&amp;crop=600:467;center,top&amp;output-quality=90\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"photo-txt-0\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"45.30303030303\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-photo-text\" readability=\"31.515151515152\">\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/hayden_panettiere\">Hayden Panettiere<\/a><\/strong>&#8216;s boyfriend, <strong>Brian Hickerson<\/strong>, spent Valentine&#8217;s Day behind bars.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Teton County Sheriff&#8217;s public information officer told E! News Hickerson was arrested in the early morning of Feb. 14 and was booked in Wyoming for alleged domestic battery.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Police did not share details of the arrest. However, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/2020\/02\/18\/hayden-panettiere-boyfriend-arrested-domestic-violence-punched-face-brian-hickerson\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">TMZ<\/a> , citing police, reported the couple got into a fight and that Hickerson hit her &#8220;with a closed fist on the right side of her face.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>According to&nbsp;the celebrity news outlet, the Teton County Sheriff&#8217;s Office was notified of a disturbance at a&nbsp;Jackson home. The caller allegedly&nbsp;told the police an intoxicated man was locked out of the private residence because he had punched his girlfriend in the face.<\/p>\n<p>According to court documents obtained by TMZ, Hickerson was in the driveway upon the deputies&#8217; arrival and claimed Panettiere was in the house &#8220;saying he beat the f&#8211;k out of me.&#8221; Per the outlet, citing police, Hickerson avoided answering questions about whether he punched the 30-year-old actress. However, he reportedly claimed he hired a private chef to be there so he &#8220;wouldn&#8217;t be accused of bulls&#8211;t.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>TMZ reported the police talked to the chef on the phone and were allegedly told he left after 1:00 AM. Although, per the outlet, he claimed he saw the couple arguing earlier&nbsp;in the evening.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-2\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"60.5\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"11\">\n<p>According to the documents obtained by TMZ, the <em>Nashville<\/em> star told police she had been in the bedroom with Hickerson when he, as the outlet reported, &#8220;started throwing her around and punched her.&#8221; Police allegedly told TMZ Panettiere&#8217;s face was red and swollen and that she had a scrape and swelling on her left hand&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>E! News has not been able to verify the aforementioned documents. Police also did not identify Panettiere as the victim to E! News.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"video-int-txt-3\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"30.112219451372\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-video-text\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"7.85536159601\">\n<p>This wasn&#8217;t the first time Hickerson had been arrested. In 2019, a judge <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1043949\/hayden-panettiere-s-boyfriend-brian-hickerson-ordered-by-judge-to-stay-away-from-star?query=Hayden%20Panettiere\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ordered Hickerson<\/a> to stay away from Panettiere following his <a href=\"http:\/\/eonline.com\/news\/1038161\/hayden-panettiere-s-boyfriend-brian-hickerson-arrested-for-domestic-violence\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">arrest for domestic violence<\/a>. Hickerson pleaded not guilty to his charge of felony domestic violence. The case was later dismissed.<\/p>\n<p>Panettiere and Hickerson have been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/957928\/hayden-panettiere-is-dating-brian-hickerson-after-wladimir-klitschko-split\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">dating<\/a> since 2018.<\/p>\n<p>E! News has reached out&nbsp;to&nbsp;Panettiere&#8217;s rep and Hickerson&#8217;s attorney for comment.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1123973\/hayden-panettiere-s-boyfriend-brian-hickerson-arrested-for-domestic-battery?cmpid=rss-000000-rssfeed-365-topstories&#038;utm_source=eonline&#038;utm_medium=rssfeeds&#038;utm_campaign=rss_topstories\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: E! Online<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hayden Panettiere&#8216;s boyfriend, Brian Hickerson, spent Valentine&#8217;s Day behind bars.&nbsp; The Teton County Sheriff&#8217;s public information officer told E! News Hickerson was arrested in the early morning of Feb. 14 and was booked in Wyoming for alleged domestic battery.&nbsp; Police did not share details of the arrest. However, TMZ , citing police, reported the couple [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-288369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-music-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-09-28 20:06:22","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KIDN - The Lift FM","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288369","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=288369"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288369\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=288369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=288369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=288369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}