Tommy Black, a band member of Scott Weiland and The Wildabouts has been arrested on drug charges after cocaine was found on the tour bus where bandmate Scott Weiland was found dead on Thursday.
Weiland, 48, the former front man of Stone Temple Pilots, died in his sleep on the band’s tour bus which had stopped in Bloomington, Minnesota.
The Hennepin County Medical Examiner’s Officer are currently investigating the cause of death.
After issuing a search warrant of the bus, Bloomington police found a small amount of a substance which tested positive as cocaine in the bedroom where Weiland was sleeping.
Police said a further small amount was found in the area of the bus occupied by bandmate Thomas Delton Black leading Black, 47, to be arrested for possession of a controlled substance.
Weiland was the frontman of the Stone Temple Pilots and also co-founded the band Velvet Revolver with former Guns N’ Roses members.
Weiland had a history of cocaine and heroin addiction, which he detailed in a memoir in 2011. He attended rehab 13 times from 1994 to 1997.
In 2010, he told USA Today he didn’t want his addiction to be his defining legacy and stressed what defines him as being a “brother, a father, a son and a person who’s been in love with very few women”.
He is survived by his wife Jamie Watchel and two children from his previous marriage to Mary Forsberg.
Additional reporting by Reuters.
