Ike Turner Jr., son of late musicians Ike and Tina Turner, was arrested in Texas last thirty day period on suspicion of possessing crack cocaine and tampering with evidence, Men and women journal reported Wednesday.
Law enforcement in Alvin, Texas, detained the 64-year-old right after finding 1.7 grams of crack cocaine and .7 grams of methamphetamine in his possession, according to People today journal. Ike Turner Jr., who is also a musician, was sentenced to jail 18 days before his mother died at age 83 on Could 24.
Turner was driving a white 2013 Ford Fusion when officers pulled him about for an machines violation since his headlight or taillight was out, police explained. Capt. Q.T. Arendell of the Alvin Law enforcement Section told Persons that officers confiscated the medicines right after they discovered Turner hoping to try to eat them “before officers could seize them from him.”
Turner is at this time getting held at Brazoria County Jail on $70,000 bail, People noted. A passenger in the automobile, Jessica Salinas-Esquivel, was also billed with possessing a controlled material (methamphetamines), according to an incident report reviewed by the celebrity information outlet.
People today, as effectively as The Instances, was unable to access an lawyer for the musician.
Ike and Tina Turner shared 4 youngsters, including Ike Turner Jr. The legendary “Proud Mary” singer welcomed her initial youngster, Craig, with saxophonist Raymond Hill just before marrying Ike Turner and adopting his two sons, Ike Jr. and Michael, from a past marriage. Ike Turner in transform adopted Craig ahead of the spouses and musical associates welcomed their only biological son, Ronnie.
Craig died by suicide in 2018, and Ronnie died of difficulties associated to late-stage most cancers, as nicely as cardiovascular disorder, in December.
Ike Turner died from a cocaine overdose in 2007. Tina Turner divorced him in the late 1970s. In interviews and her 1986 autobiography, she described different strategies Ike Turner experienced abused her.
Just after his parents separated, Turner worked briefly as a sound engineer for his mother. But he advised the Each day Mail in 2018 that his father did not approve of him doing the job with the “What’s Really like Received to Do With It” artist and defeat him in the head “with a nickel-played .45 pistol” as punishment. Turner revealed in the exact job interview that he hadn’t spoken with his mother in approximately two a long time.
In accordance to Folks, Turner a short while ago launched audio as component of a tribute team, the Adore Thang Band.
