When Darius Rucker discovered that a warrant had been issued for his arrest in December 2023, he was caught off guard. The musician was taken into custody in February 2024 on charges of simple possession, casual exchange and a registration violation — a year after he was arrested by police in Williamson County, Tennessee, for expired tags. “It shook me,” Rucker said People in his first interview about the incident.
“My friends who were at the police station said, 'Have you pissed someone off here? Because it's crazy that they're doing this a year later,” he added. “But I think someone wanted to make an example of me and they did. And I'm handling it with my lawyers and I'm paying the price and we're going to get on with our lives.”
Recalling the initial police stop and subsequent warrant, Rucker shared, “I mean, I look back on it and I'm like, 'I got pulled over by a cop and I had some pot, and I think a little bit of some mushrooms or something in the car, and he let me leave”. And a year later, I got a call from a friend who said, “I think I just saw an arrest warrant for you.”
Authorities had discovered marijuana and psilocin in the 58-year-old's vehicle, although it remains unclear why the arrest warrant was issued nearly a full year after the stop. Rucker was released on $10,500 bond the same day as his February arrest. “It sucks,” he said. “Fifty-seven years, I've never seen the inside of a police car or a jail, and I get crushed for it.”
Additional information about the musician's life has been written in his first memoirs, The life is too short, out now. “This book is the story of my life as told through 23 songs that took me away, high, starting at ground level, living in a poor but happy home, never wanting much more, enjoying what I had, even when times were tough. , because I had my escape, my refuge, my music,” Rucker said in a statement earlier this year.
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