Back in February Hootie and the Blowfish frontman Darius Rucker turned himself in on d rug possession charges after learning there was a warrant for his arrest, nearly a year after a Tennessee traffic stop [click here if you missed that].
Darius speaks about his arrest publicly for the first time...
“It was so awesome,” Rucker, 58, recalls to PEOPLE. “I mean, I looked back at that and I was like, ‘I got stopped by a police officer and I had a little bit of pot, and I think a little bit of some mushrooms or something in the car, and he let me go.’ And a year later I got a phone call from a buddy that said, ‘I think I just saw an arrest warrant for you.’ It shocked me.”
“My friends who were in the police department were like, ‘Have you pissed somebody off up here? Because this is crazy that they’re doing this a year later,’” he says. “But I think somebody wanted to make an example out of me, and they did. And I’m handling it with my lawyers, and paying the price, and we’ll move on with our lives.”
“It sucks,” he says now. “Fifty-seven years, never seen inside of a police car or jail, and I get busted for that.”
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