Darius Rucker will obtain probation after pleading no contest to a drug charge — and is concentrated on transferring on.
Months after he was arrested on drug charges stemming from a 2023 site visitors cease, the nation star, 58, pleaded no contest to at least one depend of straightforward possession of a managed substance in a Williamson County, Tenn. courtroom on Sept. 10, in keeping with native ABC affiliate WKRN.
Rucker is not going to obtain jail time, and by pleading no contest, he waives his proper to a trial and can settle for a sentence of 11 months and 29 days of probation. His prices shall be expunged if he completes the required probationary interval, Penn Live reported.
“On behalf of Darius, we wish to thank the Honorable Decide Tom Taylor, and the District Lawyer’s workplace for the time and care taken in contemplating the main points of this case and its ultimate disposition,” his attorneys advised WKRN in a press release. “As well as, we wish to thank and commend the members of the Franklin Police Division and the Williamson County Sheriff’s Division for the respectful {and professional} method wherein they handled Darius throughout this course of. Darius appears ahead to working by way of this probationary interval and placing this all behind him.”
The “Wagon Wheel” singer was arrested in February 2024 on two counts of straightforward possession/informal trade of a managed substance and one depend of violation of Tennessee’s automobile registration regulation, the Williamson County Sheriff’s Workplace advised PEOPLE on the time. He was taken into custody and launched on a $10,500 bond.
WKRN reported that Decide M.T. Taylor stated in court docket that the district legal professional had really useful he dismiss one depend of straightforward possession and the expired registration due to Rucker’s “good character.”
The star, who’s at the moment on tour with Hootie and the Blowfish, opened up to PEOPLE about his arrest in May, saying he was “shocked” to listen to there was a warrant out for his arrest months after he’d been pulled over in February 2023 and launched with out prices. On the site visitors cease, Rucker stated, he’d had “just a little little bit of pot, and I believe just a little little bit of some mushrooms or one thing within the automobile.”
TMZ reported on the time that he’d been pulled over for expired tags that month, and authorities discovered marijuana and psilocin in his automobile. Although he was launched with out prices, a warrant for his arrest was issued in December 2023, and he reportedly turned himself in in February.
“It sucks,” he advised PEOPLE in Could. “Fifty-seven years, by no means seen inside a police automobile or jail, and I get busted for that.”
Leisure marijuana is authorized in 24 states, although not in Tennessee.