May 21st, 2003 Weiland
Hit With Drug Charge
Singer faces one count of possession
The Los Angeles County District Attorney's office filed charges against
Scott Weiland today, two days after the singer was arrested on suspicion
of drug possession. Weiland will face one count of possession of a
controlled substance, according to the Glendale area division of the
LADA, who declined to give out any more information. Yesterday, a
statement from a spokesperson for Reloaded -- the band featuring former
members of Guns n' Roses that Weiland had been recording and running
with -- claimed the drugs weren't Weiland's, but belonged to the driver
of the car he was a passenger in. Both the singer and the driver of
the car were arrested just after midnight Saturday night when Burbank
police pulled them over in a routine traffic stop. Weiland was released
on bail Sunday morning.
Reloaded's spokesperson would not comment on the
new charges against the singer.
Weiland, best known for fronting the Stone Temple
Pilots, has been arrested on drug charges twice before in California,
in 1995 and 1997. He was also busted in New York in 1998, and the
next year served prison time in Los Angeles after a heroin overdose
that a judge found violated his probation. After his release, Weiland
tried to go clean, but was arrested in Las Vegas in 2001 after an
argument with his wife Mary over a prescription turned into a domestic
violence charge. The Weilands filed for divorce last September.
AUGUSTIN SEDGEWICK
(May 20, 2003)
Source: Rollingstone.com
