The Ohio Attorney General's Office has dropped the charges against a NewsNation reporter who was arrested at a press conference in which Gov. Mike DeWine (R-OH) was providing an update on the train that derailed last week in East Palestine, Ohio.

NewsNation reporter Evan Lambert was arrested after arguing with police over his right to broadcast during the press briefing on the Ohio train derailment, which resulted in a release of dangerous chemical toxins into the air and the deaths of animals near the crash site.

JOURNALIST ARRESTED AT OHIO GOVERNOR'S PRESS CONFERENCE

"My office has reviewed the relevant video and documentary evidence and is dismissing the charges against Evan Lambert as unsupported by sufficient evidence," Attorney General David Yost said, per CBS News. "Regardless of the intent, arresting a journalist reporting at a press conference is a serious matter."

"Ohio protects a free press under its constitution, and state officials should remember to exercise a heightened level of restraint in using arrest powers," Yost added.

Lambert faced charges of disorderly conduct and criminal trespassing, something NewsNation protested as a violation of its reporter's First Amendment rights.

A video of Lambert's arrest showed police wrestling Lambert to the ground before handcuffing him and escorting him to a police car. He was released from jail later that night at about 10:18.

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DeWine had condemned the arrest and said he had no part in it.

“It has always been my practice that if I’m doing a press conference, someone wants to report out there and they want to be talking back to the people back on channel, whatever, they have every right to do that,” the governor said. “If someone was stopped from doing that or told they could not do that, that was wrong. It was nothing that I authorized.”