’16 & Pregnant’ Star Whitney Purvis
Avoids Arrest for Again Youngster Help
Revealed
Whitney Purvis has prevented arrest in her ongoing youngster help case after coughing up a hefty fee ordered by a decide … TMZ has discovered.
Based on court docket docs, obtained by TMZ, the “16 and Pregnant” alum was getting ready to being arrested after the court docket discovered she’d fallen greater than $23K behind on youngster help for her children — Weston Jr. and River — with ex Weston Gosa.
The decide ordered Purvis be taken into custody and jailed except she paid a $4K lump sum purge fee to keep away from jail time. Courtroom docs now present she paid the complete quantity … so the decide rescinded the order earlier than she was ever arrested.
Purvis remains to be on the hook shifting ahead as a result of she’s been ordered to proceed paying $353 per 30 days in present youngster help, plus $20 per 30 days towards the arrears, together with further processing charges.
We broke the story … Purvis was beforehand in police custody after being arrested on a felony involuntary manslaughter cost tied to an alleged deadly overdose. Police claimed she deliberately distributed Tranq, a fentanyl-xylazine combination, which they are saying triggered John Mark Harris to die from a poisonous overdose.
She additionally faces two further drug expenses, together with possession with intent to distribute. The arrest got here simply weeks after the dying of her teenage son, Weston Jr.
