Border Patrol agents stopped Snoop Dogg’s tour bus at the Sierra Blanca checkpoint in West Texas on 7 January 2012 after a sniffer dog alerted to marijuana.[1] The rapper, born Calvin Broadus, freely admitted that three prescription bottles filled with marijuana cigarettes found on the bus were his.[1] Agents arrested him and turned him over to the Hudspeth County sheriff; he was cited for possession of drug paraphernalia, a misdemeanour covering small amounts of marijuana, and released with a court date of 20 January.[1][2]
Customs and Border Protection spokesman Bill Brooks said agents had smelled cannabis during a routine search of the bus.[2] If convicted, Snoop Dogg faced up to 180 days in jail; he held a California medical-marijuana prescription, which Texas does not recognise.[1] Willie Nelson had been arrested at the same checkpoint for marijuana in November 2010.[1][2]
