He’s rocking like a wagon wheel.
Nation musician Darius Rucker, 58, has damaged his silence about his drug similar arrest.
On Tuesday, the Hootie & the Blowfish singer opened up to Nowadays about the incident. Whilst he turned himself in on Feb. 1, he was basically in possession of the substances a 12 months ago on Feb. 19, 2023.
“I went down and we taken care of it,” he explained. “My lawyers are taking care of it. It is what it is.”
Rucker was allegedly caught with marijuana and psychedelic products right before his arrest in Tennessee.
In accordance to the arrest affidavit received by TMZ, police in Franklin, Tenn., pulled Rucker about final February after noticing his car or truck experienced expired tags.
Officers assert they smelled weed coming from his motor vehicle, although Rucker reportedly replied “no” when questioned if he had smoked that night time. He did, on the other hand, allegedly confess that he may have smoked in his vehicle the prior working day.
At the time, cops searched the motor vehicle and uncovered what they suspected to be a THC pen along with 14 unmarked purple products, which the singer allegedly claimed had been specified to him by his girlfriend, Summer.
The Grammy winner was introduced on a $10,500 bond.
In his memoir, “Life’s Way too Quick,” which arrived out on Tuesday, the “Wagon Wheel” singer detailed his partying days, crafting, “Whatever you received, I’m in. Booze. Medicines. All the things you can identify, everything you can imagine of, and piles of it, tons of it, as omnipresent as air. We consume, we smoke, we sniff, we stockpile.”
The “It Will not Be Like This For Long” singer also explained he employed to use prescription drugs “day, night, night, into the subsequent working day, always” and “nonstop.”
He advised Nowadays about his arrest, “It was amusing since I was going to a friend’s dwelling, they have been going and questioned me to just take some stuff. And I did and bought pulled, acquired stopped. And the mad detail was, they permit me go.And it was a calendar year later on that I get a cell phone simply call that mentioned there was a warrant for my arrest.”
He included, “So I went down. Fifty-seven years, I have never witnessed the inside of of a jail mobile.”
Rucker was booked on two counts of basic possession/casual exchange of a controlled compound and one particular rely of a violation of the state’s car or truck registration regulation. He stated the fees are nevertheless pending.
