Bar Smith is no longer behind bars.
The Teen Mom: The Next Chapter star— who is the baby daddy of Ashley Jones— emerged from a California jail on Friday, after spending more than seven months locked up after being arrested in July on multiple felony and misdemeanor charges including kidnapping, for allegedly holding Ashley hostage in her Las Vegas apartment. As The Ashley previously reported, Bar accepted a plea deal in late February, pleading “nolo contendere” to a misdemeanor charge of battery constituting domestic violence. (The rest of his charges— three felonies— were dismissed.)
He was sentenced to six months in jail (which he had already served), and one year of informal probation.
The Sun broke the news last week that Bar— who had been jailed in Las Vegas, where the incident with Ashley took place— was first moved to a California jail on March 12, the day he was released from the detention center in Las Vegas. He was picked up by California authorities due to a fugitive case he had pending in California regarding gun charges.
Bar was only kept in the California jail for two days, though, before he was released on Friday, March 14.
While Bar is a free man, he still must follow the strict terms of his probation, unless he wants to go back to living that three-hots-and-a-cot life.
In order to stay on the right side of the law, Starcasm reports that Bar must not receive any more domestic violence charges for the next seven years. (Should he become entangled in another domestic violence situation, he faces fines and up to six years in prison.) In addition, Bar must take parenting classes, complete substance abuse evaluations (and treatment, should it be deemed necessary following the evaluations).
He must also have no “negative” contact with Ashley. The exes share daughter Holly, whom Ashley had filed for full custody of last year during her divorce filing. The divorce case was dropped after Ashley failed to show up to court in November.
Earlier this month, though, there was some movement in the divorce case, with it being reassigned from ‘vacant’ status to a specific Clark County judge. The divorce case is still open as of press time.
Ashley has yet to publicly comment on Bar’s release.
Bar is next due back in court in Las Vegas later this week for a status check hearing on an appeal he has pending in Supreme Court. He will also be back on May 29, where a status check will be done to make sure he’s fulfilling his probation requirements.
Although Bar’s mom Shen Williams is usually very outspoken when it comes to Bar, she has yet to publicly comment about her son’s release from the clink. However, when Bar entered his plea for the Battery charge and was sentenced, Shen took to social media, telling fans she “told y’all he coming home”– referring to Bar presumably receiving a lighter sentence than what some had anticipated.
Shen then went on to accuse MTV and Viacom of making up some of the charges against her son, warning both companies that they were “gonna hear about it” from her.
(Shen has been outspoken about her feelings that Bar was wrongly charged following the DV incident with Ashley in July.)
“I told y’all this was not stalking abuse nothin smh they made it up and MTV [bought] it but Viacom is gonna hear about it!” Shen ranted. “They settled my case out of court! Let’s the games begin.
“ … do you really think those were real charges?” Shen asked fans on social media. “They were blow up and trumped for [Ashley’s] storyline and to write my son out. They fake them just like committing perjury in a court room against me … .”
Shen assured fans, “we are done with this frivolous case for a storyline” and vowed to “expose the truth and the real evil behind closed doors.”
To The Ashley’s knowledge, no truth about the “real evil behind closed doors” has been exposed by Shen as of press time.
