Darius Rucker is opening up about his arrest earlier this 12 months. The Hootie & the Blowfish founder was arrested in April on misdemeanor drug expenses in Tennessee.
“It shocked me,” Rucker advised Individuals in an interview. “My mates who had been within the police division had been like, ‘Have you ever pissed anyone off up right here? As a result of that is loopy that they’re doing this a 12 months later.’ However I feel anyone needed to make an instance out of me, and so they did.”
Rucker continued, “I’m dealing with it with my attorneys. And paying the worth, and we’ll transfer on with our lives. It sucks. Fifty-seven years, by no means seen within a police automotive or jail, and I get busted for that.”
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The singer had beforehand been pulled over in February 2023 for expired tags. In the course of the encounter with authorities, they discovered marijuana and psychedelic mushrooms in his automotive (Leisure marijuana will not be authorized in Tennessee). He was launched with out expenses, however a warrant for his arrest was issued in December 2023.
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Rucker is engaged on his new memoir, which incorporates his previous points with substance abuse, to which he says, “I hope my journey pleasantly surprises folks and makes them go, ‘Wow.’ Not lots of people know quite a bit about me. They know my music and what I do, however they don’t know the way you bought there.”