Hootie & the Blowfish frontman Darius Rucker says his February drug offense “shocked” him, and that he thinks the ordeal was the results of somebody “making an attempt to make an instance” out of him.
“I’m dealing with it with my attorneys, and paying the value, and we’ll transfer on with our lives,” Rucker instructed Folks.
In early February, Rucker was arrested in Tennessee on two counts of straightforward possession/informal alternate of a managed substance and one depend of a violation of the state’s car registration regulation. The singer stated this week the arrest warrant “shocked me,” and added the costs have been in relation to a 2023 incident throughout which he was pulled over and launched with out prices.
“It was so superior,” Rucker stated. “I imply, I appeared again at that and I used to be like, ‘I received stopped by a police officer and I had somewhat little bit of pot, and I feel somewhat little bit of some mushrooms or one thing within the automobile, and he let me go.’ And a 12 months later I received a cellphone name from a buddy that stated, ‘I feel I simply noticed an arrest warrant for you.’ It shocked me.”
In February, TMZ reported he allegedly had expired tags on his automobile.
Rucker continued this week, “My buddies who have been within the police division have been like, ‘Have you ever pissed someone off up right here? As a result of that is loopy that they’re doing this a 12 months later. However I feel someone needed to make an instance out of me, and so they did.”
Rucker’s lawyer stated after the singer’s arrest that he was “totally cooperating with authorities associated to misdemeanor prices.”
Final October, Rucker launched his first solo album in six years, Carolyn’s Boy. His memoir, Life’s Too Quick, can also be out now.