{"id":72740,"date":"2024-02-02T00:43:03","date_gmt":"2024-02-02T00:43:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/02\/darius-rucker-arrested-on-misdemeanor-drug-charges-in-tennessee\/"},"modified":"2024-02-02T00:43:03","modified_gmt":"2024-02-02T00:43:03","slug":"darius-rucker-arrested-on-misdemeanor-drug-charges-in-tennessee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/02\/darius-rucker-arrested-on-misdemeanor-drug-charges-in-tennessee\/","title":{"rendered":"Darius Rucker Arrested on Misdemeanor Drug Charges in Tennessee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.etonline.com\/people\/darius-rucker\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Darius Rucker<\/a><span> was arrested and booked on three misdemeanor charges in Tennessee\u00a0on Thursday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.etonline.com\/reba-mcentire-and-darius-rucker-to-co-host-the-2020-cma-awards-154175\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Hootie &amp; the Blowfish frontman&#8217;s<\/a><span> attorney released a statement to ET confirming the news of the 57-year-old musician&#8217;s arrest.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>&#8220;Darius Rucker is fully cooperating with authorities related to misdemeanor charges,&#8221; Rucker&#8217;s lawyer, Mark Puryear, tells ET.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Rucker was taken into custody by police in\u00a0Williamson County, where the country singer lives, according to <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/2024\/02\/01\/darius-rucker-arrested-minor-drug-offense-tennessee\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><em>TMZ,<\/em><\/a><span> who was the first to report the news.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Rucker was arrested and charged with two counts of alleged simple possession and\/or casual exchange of a controlled substance.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>He was also charged with a violation of Tennessee&#8217;s vehicle registration law, allegedly for having an expired registration.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Information regarding what transpired leading up to Rucker&#8217;s arrest has not yet been disclosed. Rucker was reportedly booked at 10 a.m. and then bonded out and released an hour later.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><span>RELATED CONTENT:<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.etonline.com\/darius-rucker-arrested-on-misdemeanor-drug-charges-in-tennessee-219044\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Darius Rucker was arrested and booked on three misdemeanor charges in Tennessee\u00a0on Thursday. The Hootie &amp; the Blowfish frontman&#8217;s attorney released a statement to ET confirming the news of the 57-year-old musician&#8217;s arrest. &#8220;Darius Rucker is fully cooperating with authorities related to misdemeanor charges,&#8221; Rucker&#8217;s lawyer, Mark Puryear, tells ET. Rucker was taken into custody [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":72741,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[2139,195,3133,174,20],"class_list":{"0":"post-72740","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-make-up","8":"tag-arrests","9":"tag-crime","10":"tag-darius-rucker","11":"tag-entertainment-tonight","12":"tag-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72740","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72740"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72740\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72741"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}