Fiona Apple was arrested on 19 September 2012 after her tour bus was stopped for inspection at the Border Patrol checkpoint in Sierra Blanca, Texas.[1] A drug dog alerted on the bus, and officers found hashish along with a small amount of marijuana in a backpack.[1][2] The search found four grams of cannabis buds and four grams of hashish in a sealed glass container inside the backpack.[2]

Apple, 35, spent the night in the Hudspeth County jail and was bonded out the next day, forcing the postponement of her Austin show.[1] Though eight grams of cannabis buds would have been a misdemeanor, the four grams of hashish made the charge at least a third-degree felony, carrying two to ten years in prison plus a $10,000 fine.[2] The checkpoint, ostensibly run to catch illegal immigrants, had already caught Willie Nelson and Snoop Dogg on cannabis charges.[1][2]