Musician Darius Rucker faces three misdemeanor charges in Tennessee after being arrested on suspicion of violating the state's vehicle registration law.
The former Hootie & the Blowfish frontman was arrested Thursday in Franklin, Tennessee, and charged with two counts of simple drug possession and casual exchange and one count of violation of the registration law, a Williamson County Sheriff's spokesman said. to the Tennessean. TMZ reported that DMV authorities said Rucker let the tags on his car expire and arrested him after an alleged drug delivery.
The “Only Wanna Be With You” and “Wagon Wheel” singer, 57, was booked into the Williamson County Jail on Thursday on misdemeanor drug possession charges and was released about an hour after being taken to jail, where he was processed and received a mugshot. . He was released Thursday after posting $10,500 bail.
Representatives for Rucker did not immediately respond Friday to The Times' requests for comment.
His attorney, Mark L. Puryear, told TMZ and the Tennessean that the country star is fully cooperating with authorities regarding the charges.
The three-time Grammy Award winner, who has sold more than 150 million records worldwide and managed Hootie & the Blowfish for more than 30 years, released his eighth solo album, “Carolyn's Boy,” in October. The upbeat album, with songs co-written by Ed Sheeran and HARDY, is a tribute to Rucker's late mother, Carolyn, who died of a heart attack in 1992.
“I was writing the record, I was having a bad day, you know, a bad mental day. And I remember sitting there and saying to myself, 'At the end of the day, I'm still my mom's son.' And that was really the moment for me, you know, that's what the record is,” he told the Associated Press in October. “It's me just being who she raised me to be.”
“Now that I'm a father, three times over with grown children, I just wanted to pay tribute to my mother, who never got to see any of this, any of this success.”
