Jeremy Madix, the brother of the former Vanderpump Rules Star Ariana Madix was arrested at her home in Oceanside, California, on July 10 and extradited to Orange County, Florida.
According to legal documents obtained by several celebrity gossip According to local media, Madix was charged with one count of trafficking cannabis over £25 following an incident that took place on February 16.
The arrest warrant alleges that Jeremy and a friend named Jonah Ahad were traveling together from Orlando International Airport to Frankfurt, Germany, when Customs and Border Protection agents inspected two bags belonging to Jeremy and one belonging to Ahad.
In Jeremy’s suitcases, there was apparently He was carrying 64 vacuum-sealed bags of marijuana, weighing approximately 76 pounds..
That’s a huge amount of marijuana.
Madix was initially held without bail, but a judge eventually set the figure at $80,000 and he has since been released.
The reality star had to surrender her passport to the clerk’s office within five days of her release.
Madix faces a minimum sentence of three years in prison and a $25,000 fine.
Since his arrest, Jeremy’s mother, Tanya Madix, has written a letter in support of her son, telling the judge overseeing the case that the 32-year-old is “a wonderful, loving son” and a “kind person.”
However, there has been no news from her sister Ariana.
This is because the brothers are not close.
“Obviously, I’ll always support my sister,” Jeremy said in March on the PUMP RULES podcast, referencing Ariana’s infamous split from Tom Sandoval after his romance with Raquel Leviss.
—But yes, I need to talk to Tom. I would love to talk to my sister, but I haven’t heard from her in months.
She previously told Us Weekly that the estrangement is because Ariana does NOT get along with Jeremy’s fiancé.
“There have been some small microaggressive gestures towards my fiancée, and that is what has led me to not speak to my sister. This has been going on for quite some time,” he told the tabloid months ago.
“I think we just let it go, because of course I will always support my sister. But I was put in a position where I have to choose my sister, or choose the person I am going to spend the rest of my life with?”