Tina Turner’s son Ike Jr. was arrested for crack possession weeks before her death and ‘tried to eat the drugs before officers could seize them’
Ike Turner Jr., the son of the late Tina and Ike Turner, was arrested last month in Texas on multiple drug charges, less than three weeks before his famed mother’s death at 83.
Ike Jr., 64, was taken into custody May 6 in Alvin, Texas, in connection with crack cocaine possession and tampering with evidence, police told People Wednesday.
‘He tried to eat the drugs before the officers could seize them from him,’ Capt. Q.T. Arendell of the Alvin Police Department told the outlet.
Ike Jr. has not been able to post the $70,000 bail following his arrest, police told the outlet.
A passenger in the vehicle with Ike Jr., Jessica Salinas-Esquivel, was also charged in the incident with meth possession, police said, according to the outlet.
The latest: Ike Turner Jr., the son of the late Tina and Ike Turner, was arrested last month in Texas on multiple drug charges, less than three weeks before his famed mother’s death at 83. Pictured with his late father Ike Turner in 2007 in LA
The arrest occurred less than three weeks before his mother Tina Turner’s death at 83 May 24. Pictured in 2008
His mother Tina died at her Switzerland home May 24 at 83 after battling multiple ailments.
According to authorities, in the May 6 incident, Ike Jr. was initially pulled over at 12:09 a.m. in a white 2013 Ford Fusion over an equipment violation, meaning a broken headlight or taillight.
Upon searching the car, police saw Ike Jr. trying to eat the drugs that were present – 1.7 grams of crack cocaine and .7 grams of methamphetamine.
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