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Fiona Apple Released on Bond After Texas Drug Arrest

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EL PASO, Texas (AP) - Singer-songwriter Fiona Apple was arrested for hashish possession at a West Texas Border Patrol checkpoint after a drug-sniffing dog detected marijuana in her tour bus.

Hudspeth County sheriff's office spokesman Rusty Fleming told the Associated Press on Thursday that Apple spent Wednesday night in the county jail in Sierra Blanca. Apple was released Thursday after posting [$10,000] bail.


Country singer Willie Nelson, rapper Snoop Dogg and actor Armand Hammer also have been arrested in Sierra Blanca on marijuana charges.

Fleming said that after the dog alerted the Border Patrol agent, the artist's bus was searched. Police found the drugs in a backpack - about four grams of marijuana and a plastic bag with about four grams of a clay-like substance that tested positive for hashish were stored in a glass container, the sheriff's office said in a press release.

Apple admitted the drugs were hers, the release said.

The Sierra Blanca checkpoint inspects thousands of vehicles daily and sends the county thousands of drug cases yearly.

Apple "had a little tiny amount of pot and hash," Fleming said. While marijuana possession in small amounts is a misdemeanor, the Texas Controlled Substance Act says possession of hashish in any quantity is a felony.

Hashish is a drug prepared with the resin of the marijuana plant. It contains the same active ingredients as marijuana, but in much higher concentrations.

Apple's publicist, Ambrosia Healy, didn't immediately respond to an email request for comment.

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Kathy FlorCruz

VEE apparently feel asleep on the enter button & filled up 2 pages with the same long comment.

September 24 2012 at 3:34 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Kathy FlorCruz

Once again, AND it seems on a daily basis-this country shows how dumb & useless busting people for personal use pot/hash is. WHAT ON EARTH good does it do to throw these people in JAIL? JAIL & PRISONS are for violent or hard card criminals. OR for say-scumbags who steal BILLIONS from innocent victims-like BANKERS. But no-we still throw people in there for smoking pot. How much dumber does America want to look to the rest of the world by doing this? We already have lost credibility in a massive way. This just bolsters that our judgement is WAY the hell off when it comes to just about ANYTHING now.

September 24 2012 at 3:27 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
columbo

WELL GUESS AM OUTLAW ALSO

September 22 2012 at 11:26 PM Report abuse +1 rate up rate down Reply
Gary

illegals pout across the texas border with impunity and an american citizen is charged with a felony over 4 grams? 1/4 shot glass of pot. we are the laughing stock of the world thanks to our bloated government, with it's clueless president.

September 22 2012 at 9:11 PM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
Gary

illegals pout across the texas border with impunity and an american citizen is charged with a felony over 4 grams? 1/4 shot glass of pot. we are the laughing stock of the world thanks to our bloated government, with it's clueless president.

September 22 2012 at 9:11 PM Report abuse +1 rate up rate down Reply
Hello Douglas

The cops did a good job and put a dope head behind bars. It's ok to go after illegal immigrants
but you call it a waste of time getting illegal drugs off the street. Wake up people.

September 22 2012 at 7:11 AM Report abuse -2 rate up rate down Reply
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paumanok2

A "dope head"? Geez, people like you still walk this earth, wow.

September 22 2012 at 8:02 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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Gary

didn't you watch reefer maddness? pot makes you want to rape and kill.

September 22 2012 at 9:14 PM Report abuse rate up rate down
Gary

didn't you watch reefer maddness? pot makes you want to rape and kill.

September 22 2012 at 9:14 PM Report abuse rate up rate down
Michael D. Rich

No surprise here...the stupid red necks in Texas are a disgrace...what trash!

September 21 2012 at 12:27 PM Report abuse +1 rate up rate down Reply
Michael D. Rich

No surprise here...the stupid red necks in Texas are a disgrace...what trash!

September 21 2012 at 12:27 PM Report abuse +1 rate up rate down Reply
Michael D. Rich

No surprise here...the stupid red necks in Texas are a disgrace...what trash!

September 21 2012 at 12:27 PM Report abuse -1 rate up rate down Reply
Lynnsey

a real "criminal" off the streets. (Get it, fiona apple fans?)

Seriously though, what a waste of time. Border control should spend more time dealing with illegal immigrants coming into this country than raiding a B-list singer's tour bus.

September 21 2012 at 12:27 PM Report abuse -1 rate up rate down Reply
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art

druggies tend to support their own.

September 22 2012 at 7:08 AM Report abuse rate up rate down Reply
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paumanok2

"druggies", What druggies? we're talking pot here, most who talk like you are alcoholics anyway

September 22 2012 at 8:04 AM Report abuse rate up rate down