Former child actor and current musician Corey Feldman faces a marijuana charge after the drug was found on his tour bus in the northeast Louisiana town of Mangham, according to The News Star and the performer’s own tweets.
Feldman, who performed in New Orleans in July, was on his way to a scheduled performance in Monroe when Mangham Police officers found marijuana on his tour bus, according to a few tweets on his account Sunday (Oct. 22).
Feldman noted on Twitter that he was not arrested, but he faces a misdemeanor charge for what he said was medical marijuana belonging to a member of his crew. The member holds a California prescription for the drug, Feldman wrote, but he was charged because it was his tour bus.
“Also 5 others were charged due 2 having legal medicines without their particular bottles,” he wrote. “No illegal or street drugs were found on the bus at all. … We were promised these charges could all B dropped with proof of proper scripts (sic).”
Feldman called the stop “a good ol shakedown,” writing that “after we paid them in cash, they asked 4 pics & autographs, & then called the local paper 2 do interviews.”
Mangham Police Chief Perry Fleming told The News Star in Monroe that Feldman was charged with possession of marijuana and driving under a suspended license.
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