POLICE STOP WILLIE NELSON'S TOUR BUS ON I-10, FIND MARIJUANA AND MUSHROOMS

Louisiana State Police issued a misdemeanor citation to country music
legend Willie Nelson for possession of marijuana and mushrooms early
this morning after stopping his tour bus near Breaux Bridge.

Trooper Willie Williams, State Police spokesman, said today that a
trooper with the Criminal Interdiction Unit stopped Nelson's bus on
Interstate 10, near milepost 110, for a commercial vehicle
inspection, a common procedure on Louisiana roadways.

Williams said when the trooper entered the doorway of the vehicle, he
immediately smelled marijuana. After searching the bus, the trooper
confiscated one and a half pounds of marijuana and two-tenths of a
pound of mushrooms.

The quantity of drugs, if found in possession of one person, is
enough to warrant a charge of distribution, which is a felony. But
Williams said all five people on the bus, including Nelson, claimed
the drugs as their own, and so they were each charged with misdemeanors.

Also cited were [redacted].