‘Swamp People’ Cast Member Busted

A cast member of the TV series “Swamp People” recently found himself on the wrong end of the law in St. Tammany Parish. It wasn’t a first for Nicholas Payne, 26, who appears on the History Channel’s reality show chronicling various Louisiana alligator harvesters alongside Bruce Mitchell, who wears his denim overalls bare-chested and a bandana on his head. The parish police confirmed yesterday that Payne allegedly hit a cop and tried to run away while being cited for creating a disturbance at a home in Pearl River. He was jailed on September 23rd and charged with disturbing the peace, battery of a police officer, resisting an officer and being a fugitive from another state. Just after midnight on the 23rd, the Sheriff’s Office was asked to investigate a complaint at a residence on Dolph Gaines Road, according to officials. When the responding deputy arrived, Payne and a woman who said she was his wife explained that he was being loud because he had been locked out of the place and wanted to get the attention of somebody inside. Things went downhill from there. Payne has had several run-ins with the law.