Snoop Dogg's tour bus pulled over in Texas; 2 arrested on pot charges

DALLAS -- A tour bus carrying hip-hop artist Snoop Dogg was pulled over and two people were arrested on marijuana possession charges Thursday a few hours before a concert in Dallas, a spokesman for the Texas Department of Public Safety said. DPS spokesman Charlie Morgan said members of a commercial vehicle inspection team pulled the bus over on Interstate 45 in Corsicana because the vehicle had an expired registration sticker. Troopers searched the bus for drugs after they said they smelled marijuana and found two ounces of the drug, he said. Ethan Calhoun, 27, and Kevin Barkey, 26, were arrested on drug charges after admitting the drugs belonged to them, Morgan told The Associated Press. Both men were taken to the Navarro County Jail and face fines of up to $2,000 and six months in jail if convicted, Morgan said. Bond was set at $1,500 each.
The Corsicana Daily Sun reported the men appeared before a justice of the peace and were released after posting bond.

Snoop Dogg, whose birth name is Cordozar Calvin Broadus Jr., was not arrested. His agent had no comment, a secretary said. Calls to public relations representatives for the rapper were not immediately returned Thursday evening.

He was arrested last year at Bob Hope Airport in Burbank, Calif., on suspicion of transporting marijuana.

Police later charged him with gun possession after finding a firearm in his home. He pleaded no contest in April 2007 to felony gun and marijuana charges and agreed to five years’ probation and 800 hours of community service.

He was scheduled to appear at a concert near the Cotton Bowl in Dallas. He is on tour with alternative rock group 311.

Corsicana is 52 miles south-southeast of Dallas.

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Comment by BlackFlag on August 2, 2008 at 4:21pm: Still Blowing Doe Doe.....

Comment by JABBAR M on August 2, 2008 at 6:50pm: Don't sound right....just so happen to be search on Snoop Dog Bus headed to a tour "SET UP"....

Comment by Mac Sleepy on August 2, 2008 at 8:23pm: of coarse.. white ass dallas police, black ass snoop... u know they gone fukk wit him...

Comment by Jimmy Cooper Jr. on August 2, 2008 at 9:13pm: SET UP

Comment by Tekina on August 3, 2008 at 3:06am: He ain't gone stop til his ass get locked up.

Comment by monie on August 3, 2008 at 12:10pm: well snoopy needs to understand that the more he gets pulled over its going to be hard for him to live the united states. so him and his crew need to slow down plus he got his money from the old record company death row snoop pay for you tags.he give them reasons to pull his ass over

Comment by $hun on August 3, 2008 at 4:54pm: dat my nigga snoop dogg 4 ya

Comment by kendra Williams on August 3, 2008 at 8:03pm: I'm from Dallas and this is my first time hearing of this. They need to leave my nigga Snoop alone, but he do need to try and chill with all that weed smoking though. I am sure it was his and the other 2 guys just said that it was theirs cuz he already has previous charges of marijuana possesion.