Robert Cosby Jr., the son of the Real Housewives of Salt Lake City star Mary Cosby, pleaded guilty to eight charges at Salt Lake County District Court. According to People, they include felony property damage, two counts of violating a protective order, assaulting a police officer, violating parole, criminal trespass, and misdemeanor assault. Six other misdemeanor charges were dismissed with prejudice, meaning they cannot be refiled.
The charges stem from multiple incidents this fall involving Cosby’s soon-to-be ex-wife, Alexiana Arian Smokoff, and her father, Shad Stoke. Smokoff filed for divorce on November 24, and Cosby entered his pleas a day later.
Cosby was accused of trying to break into his father-in-law’s house through a doggy door on two occasions in September as well as attacking Stoke on his front lawn. Another incident in November allegedly saw Cosby vandalizing Stoke’s home and biting a police officer’s hand so hard it broke the skin.
Cosby’s mental health was featured on RHOSLC season five. In a conversation with his mother, he discussed his overuse of Xanax and OxyContin in addition to his use of LSD, molly, and marijuana. He expressed suicidal ideations as well. In 2023, he pleaded guilty to a DUI. Mary has said that her son’s arrest was a good thing. “I think he needed that,” she told People. “He’s never encountered anything like that. He’s never been through anything like that. I don’t mind it. It hurt me at the time. I was devastated, I was worried, I was scared. But some things happen for a reason to show you the path you’re on. I feel like he needed that and that he understands that that’s the wrong journey.”
