Former Stone Temple Pilots frontman Scott Weiland has done enough drugs in his lifetime to make Afroman look like Mother Teresa, but TMZ could be in serious trouble for mistakenly reporting that he was recently busted for meth in Los Angeles.
According to Uproxx, TMZ posted a story yesterday that Weiland had been in jail for the last four weeks on $95,000 bond after stealing razors from a Beverly Hills Rite-Aid as well as a subsequent search that turned up meth, adding:
The Stone Temple Pilots singer is in jail … charged with felony possession of a controlled substance and burglary … We’re also told Scott pulled the celeb card, telling cops, “I’m Scott Weiland from Stone Temple Pilots.”
There was one big problem with the story, though: Scott Weiland wasn’t arrested for stealing razors and meth possession.
The man rotting in jail was instead 44-year-old Jason Michael Hurley, who not only looks like Weiland, but also has the same birthday as him and was able to temporarily convince police that he was the rock star.
Weiland learned about the story while he was in the studio with his band The Wildabouts, and we don’t think he was very happy about it:
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