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Snoop Dogg attracted police attention once more this week
but this time around, it appears that he is not in trouble.
The tour bus rapper Snoop Dog was riding in Thursday evening
through Dallas was
stopped by police because the vehicle had an expired registration sticker. Members
of a commercial vehicle inspection team pulled the bus over and searched it for
drugs after smelling marijuana, reports the Associated Press, citing Texas
Department of Public Safety spokesman Charlie Morgan.
Troopers found two ounces of marijuana, Morgan said. Two men
were arrested on drug charges after they admitted to owning the drug. Ethan
Calhoun, 27, and Kevin Barkey, 26, were taken to the Navarro County Jail. They face
fines of up to $2,000 and six months in jail if convicted, Morgan told the AP.
Bond was set at $1,500 each.
Snoop Dogg had a concert ahead of him that evening, at Dallas’ Superpages.com
Center. He is currently
on tour with 311. He was not charged. It is not known yet what Snoop Dogg’s
connection to the two arrested men is.
A drug-related arrest would have been no first time for
Snoop Dogg, whose real name is Cordozar Calvin Broadus Jr., as he was arrested just
last year at Bob Hope Airport in Burbank, Calif., on suspicion of transporting
marijuana.
In April 2007, Snoop pleaded no contest to felony gun and
marijuana charges and was sentenced to five years of probation for gun and drug
charges. He was also court-ordered to perform community service, namely to help
clean a park.
Previous arrests include a September 2006 incident when he
walked though security at Orange County’s John
Wayne Airport,
in California,
with a collapsible baton in his luggage. He explained that the baton was a prop
for a video he was filming but authorities deemed it a dangerous weapon.
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