Trigger Warning: This story contains mentions of domestic violence.

New footage taken on the night Unexpected star Falen Vaughn was arrested earlier this month has just been released and it is wild.

The footage— taken from the body worn cameras of the officers who were on the scene that night— not only shows Falen being arrested, but also the events leading up to the arrest, which occurred outside the home of Hunter Johnson‘s father, Casey and stepmother Brettney.

Some of the most jaw-dropping parts of the video show Falen’s husband, Kris, nearly hitting an officer with his truck. Another part shows Hunter’s stepmom accusing the 14-year-old of physically attacking her, pinning her on the bed and then punching holes in the wall.

As The Ashley previously told you, Falen was arrested on April 20 and charged with Disorderly Conduct, as well as Obstructing Government Operations for allegedly not obeying officers’ commands.

It seemingly all began when Hunter’s mom Stacy Riddle was having a dispute with Hunter’s stepmom Brettney over a phone given to Hunter by Falen. (The Ashley will be referring to this as the “Vaughn Phone” from here on out, by the way.) Hunter’s dad has made it clear he does not want Hunter to have his Vaughn Phone, due to the fact that it allows the Vaughns to track Hunter’s whereabouts. (In an emergency custody order filed the week after Falen’s arrest, a judge has since banned Hunter from having the Vaughn Phone.)

Anyway, back to the video from April 20…

The video— which was uploaded to Reddit on Thursday— begins with a ruckus caused by Falen and her husband Kris rolling up and jumping into the situation. (Hunter was obviously already present, as were Bella and baby Wes who were in the car with Stacie.) 

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The video shows Kris as he comes barreling out of his pickup truck like a bat of hell, explaining that he sees his daughter’s car. The officer sees how aggravated Kris is and tells him to “chill the f**k out right now.” 

“I ain’t mad! I ain’t mad!” an angry sounding Kris insists.

Kris continues to scream and move himself toward the car, and Falen intervenes. 

“This needs to wrap up, because this is getting ridiculous!” the officer says.

“It’s about to get worse!” Kris yells.

At that point, Kris jumps back in his truck and zooms forward, narrowly missing the officer standing in the street in front of him. 

“You need to leave or you’re going to go to jail!” the cop tells Kris.

Falen then tries to jump into the situation, but the officer is holding her arm to keep her back while also telling her over and over to stop.

“You f**king started it!” she yells to someone (whom we can assume is Hunter’s stepmom). Falen keeps trying to lunge at someone (and/or possibly take a swing at the cop) so the officer takes her to the ground. He lays her on the street and puts cuffs on her. Even after she’s cuffed, Falen is cursing and trying to lunge at someone. 

Next, Kris resurfaces and is screaming, “Let her up! She’s a f**king defenseless woman!” 

Falen complains to the officer that he hurt her neck when he slammed her to the ground. 

As Falen is being walked to the police car in cuffs, she yells to Hunter (who is sitting on the curb seemingly sobbing).

“It’s going to be OK. Calm down,” she tells him.

Falen then tells the officer that this has been “a f**king two-year, ongoing bulls**t. They called rape on my f**king daughter!” (Falen is likely referring to comments made over the fact that Falen’s daughter Bella was 14 while Hunter was only 12 when Bella got pregnant.)

Next, Kris yells over to the officer to ask if Falen is under arrest. When the officer confirms that Falen is getting arrest, Kris screams, “What?!” The officer instructs Kris to get back in his truck, drive down the road and wait for him to explain what’s happening next. 

With Kris down the street and Falen cuffed and inside the police car, the officers discuss what happened. The cop tells another officer that Kris was in his truck and “ripping it up and down and reversing” and that he got “really close” to hitting another officer. 

Full explanation from the cops on why they arrested Falen
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“[Falen] was trying to run up to him and I was trying to hold her back,” the officer explains. “And then she wasn’t letting me. She was ripping my arms so I just… took her to the ground and put her in cuffs… she was running away from me, trying to get over into the middle of them and they were about to fight. I didn’t know if [Kris] was trying to run… she takes off and she’s trying to rip out of my arms. And I thought [Kris] was trying to run over [Officer] Stevenson [with his truck].

The officer explains that he thought he was “about to fight” Kris, whom the officers say is “out of it.” The officer again states that he thought Kris was going to attack Officer Stevenson.

“I thought he was trying to fight Stevenson. I thought he was trying to run Stevenson over. So I just took [Falen] down and put her in cuffs,” he explains.

Regarding the situation escalating quickly, the officer explained that, “it was like four people and then six more people showed up out of nowhere.” 

Next, the cops discuss what allegedly went on inside the house between Hunter and his stepmom Brettney before all the outdoor ruckus occurred. 

The officer says that Hunter and his stepmom were “pushin’ on each other” when Brettney took Hunter’s Vaughn Phone; however, he stated that “there’s no evidence for a battery arrest or a domestic battery arrest… there’s no marks on anybody. It sounds like all they did was push each other. [Hunter] punched a hole in the wall but not at her.” 

In another video, an officer walks over to where Hunter’s dad Casey and stepmom Brettney are. Brettney explains that Casey and Stacie currently have 50/50 custody of Hunter, but that they are in the process of trying to get full custody, “which is what all this is about.” 

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Brettney claims that they had arranged for Hunter to go home from his baseball game with the parents of one of his teammates, but that Stacie showed up and picked Hunter up anyway. They called the cops and an officer met them at Casey’s home, where Stacie eventually brought Hunter. Brettney says that she asked the officer to make Hunter give his mom his Vaughn Phone, but the officer wouldn’t do that. 

“So when I got here, I went in his room and grabbed his phone,” Brettney said. “And he stood up and shoved his chair back and everything and he shoved me, pinned me down on the bed, and he started screaming, ‘911’ because I guess he was on the phone with them, waiting for all this to go down anyway… I started screaming, ‘Get off of me!’ and that’s when my sister-in-law was standing in the door and she was saying, ‘Stop, you’re going to get in trouble. You’re going to get in trouble.’ 

“[Hunter] had me pinned on the bed and was trying to grab the phone,” she continued. “I just took my foot and I shoved him off of me. I said, ‘Get off of me!”

Brettney said she eventually got the phone and left Hunter’s room, just as Hunter was punching holes in the wall. She claims she went outside and locked herself in the car with the phone. Soon after, Stacie showed up and started screaming at Brettney. Brettney claims Stacie followed her into the doorway of the house and tried to shove her way in as Brettney was screaming at her to leave. The cops arrived at that point and separated the women.

Brettney said that Kris threatened to “get tangled up” with Casey, something Casey later tells the cops he’s not happy about.

“Now I’ve got to watch my back and stuff,” he says. 

Next, Stacie gives her version of events. She tells the cops that she’s “been making reports” against Casey because she’s “scared to death of him.”

She sobs as she explains that Hunter is “weirded out” by his stepmom, as well as his little sister who “keeps hiding her phone under the door” and watching him shower. 

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She says that, as of that time, there was no court order preventing Hunter from having his Vaughn Phone; however she says Hunter’s stepmom “is so weird about him having this phone.” It appears that Hunter was on the Vaughn Phone with Bella when Brettney came in to take the phone, and he asked Bella to call the cops on the stepmom.

“He’s scared to death because now the stepmom’s trying to press charges on him!” Stacie says. 

It does not appear that charges were filed against Hunter. However, Falen was taken to jail and booked and released.

She has entered a plea of not guilty to her two charges, and is next due in court in August. Falen’s lawyer, Kevin Hickey, told TMZ last week that “Falen was at the scene to help her daughter and grandson and now she looks forward to proving she’s innocent of the charges.”

In the days after the arrest and ruckus, Casey filed for— and was awarded— emergency custody of Hunter. The court order suspended Hunter’s mom Stacie from having any custody of him for the time being, and banned the Vaughns from having any contact with Hunter unless it’s supervised by Casey. (In his filing, Casey stated that he is concerned about the “unusually personal and excessive level of contact” between Falen and Hunter.)

The judge also ordered that Hunter’s Vaughn Phone be returned to Falen and Kris, and that Hunter not have any phone that is not issued to him by Casey. 

An emergency hearing has been scheduled for next month in the case. 

 

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