2 arrested on Snoop's tour bus
2008-08-01 07:40
Dallas - A tour bus carrying hip-hop artist Snoop Dogg was pulled over and two people were arrested on marijuana possession charges on Thursday a few hours before a concert in Dallas, a spokesperson for the Texas Department of Public Safety said.
DPS spokesperson Charlie Morgan said members of a commercial vehicle inspection team pulled the bus over on Interstate 45 in Corsicana because the vehicle had an expired registration sticker.
Troopers searched the bus for drugs after they said they smelled marijuana and found 56 grams of the drug, he said.
Ethan Calhoun, 27, and Kevin Barkey, 26, were arrested on drug charges after admitting the drugs belonged to them, Morgan told The Associated Press.
Both men were taken to the Navarro County Jail and face fines of up to $2 000 and six months in jail if convicted, Morgan said. Bond was set at $1 500 each.
Snoop Dogg not arrested
The Corsicana Daily Sun reported the men appeared before a justice of the peace and were released after posting bond.
Snoop Dogg, whose birth name is Cordozar Calvin Broadus, Jnr, was not arrested. His agent had no comment, a secretary said.
Calls to public relations representatives for the rapper were not immediately returned on Thursday evening.
He was arrested last year at Bob Hope Airport in Burbank, California, on suspicion of transporting marijuana.
Police later charged him with gun possession after finding a firearm in his home. He pleaded no contest in April 2007 to felony gun and marijuana charges and agreed to five years' probation and 800 hours of community service.
He was scheduled to appear at a concert near the Cotton Bowl in Dallas. He is on tour with alternative rock group 311.
Corsicana is 84 kilometres south-southeast of Dallas.
- AP