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Pete Doherty arrested on drugs charges

The star is apprehended after his car is stopped

2 hours ago
Pete Doherty has been arrested on suspicion of possession of a Class A drug.

The Babyshambles frontman was stopped in a car by police officers in High Street Kensington, west London, on Saturday evening (May 5).

Doherty, who has appeared in court on a number of drugs charges in tn the last year, was taken to a police station and remanded on bail until June, reports the BBC.

On his most recent court apperance, the star was praised by a judge for "more than co-operating" in his struggle to beat his addiction to hard substances.

He was ordered to take part in a treatment programme after admitting drug possession charges in April 2006.

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This isn't a criticism of you bryan for posting it, but does anyone really care about Pete Doherty being arrested for possession of drugs again? It's about as inevitable a news story as the one about soldiers dying in Iraq (though clearly not as serious as that, but they may as well be copying and pasting the same articles for that every time and filling in the slots for date, number, place.)

I swear the police just follow him around and arrest him every few months when they need to boost their 'conviction for possession' rates.

this is getting old.

it's sad though, to see him fuck up his life so much i mean.

Pft, let him overdose already.

Agreed, stupid ASI

yeah i dont really buy it either to be honest, he seems to be playing at the big bad fucked up rockstar.
he's cambridge educated ffs
ithink he knows exactly what hes doing and hes manipulated the media, because lets be honest, his music alone wouldnt get him anywhere near as far

its not really about 'playing' the big bad fucked up rockstar routine, he has a drug addiction and its not like hes asking to be arrested. Libertines were popular when hardly anyone in the mainstream knew about them.

whether he has an addiction isn't the point, he exploits it to get into the headlines because he knows he wouldn't do it based on his current musical ability. hence all the theatrics with syringes and stuff, he thrives on noteriety. the libertines were never really that underground, and once carl had enough of him i think pete probably realised he wasn't going anywhere on his own. babyshambles are a poor, poor effort at a band and i dont think anyone would be interested in them if it wasn't for the mystique that pete drums up through his behaviour. he's too lucid and too intelligent to not know exactly what he is doing. i'm not saying he isn't genuinely an addict, just that he uses that

I'm so sick of this, it's utterly pathetic.

Drug addicst are so selfish.

My boyfriend is in a band and they all do drugs except him. I hate that he's exposed to it everytime he practices with them or plays a gig, not to mention whenever they have parties. I don't travel in their circles and I purposefully do not go to their parties because I don't want to be around coke. I hate that he is exposed to it because although he hasn't done it with them and says he doesn't want to, the exposure to it is obviously going to make him more tolerant towards it. Or at least that is how my brain thinks.

Plus they're all losers.

Really? I have never heard this before. I just tried to google it, but didn't see anything, although there was a lot of stuff about a Cambridge philosophy graduate dying at a party Doherty attended. Could you perhaps elaborate?

well it says suspicion you people are so gullible did you ever stop and think that maybe and prolly he is being set up.i bet someone set him up and planted them on him or near him or he was just trying to be a friend and hold them for someone.Pete is NOT on DRUGs.pete is cleaner then a girl scout cleaner then a bible thumper.he wouldnt do anything to damage his relationship with kate and carl.he wants them to be proud of him.i think he is innocent.i assume he is and hope he doesnt get in trouble maybe he wanted or needed to be around drugs to prove he can resist temptation.courtney has to be careful someone could plant some on her again and set her up once more.

Hahaha just what I was thinking actually.

yeah i just tried to look that up as well and found nothing, so it could be wrong. i heard it on newsnight of all places a few years ago, and erroniously thought they were reliable. from what can i tell he actually went to london. ooops. anyway, general point still stands, he is an intelligent guy, look at his exam results.

and i hate the police as much as the next anarchist, but i dont think pete doherty is high on their list of priorities at the moment

No, I think he's just a dirty smackhead to be honest.

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Every arrest is for a suspected crime until it goes to court and the defendant is found guilty.

You speak nonsense.

That may be so, but typically you don't get arrested for being in possession of say... a losing lottery ticket... or a thimble full of sunscreen... or a bag of gummi bears.

It's not heard to put two and two together. Especially in this case.

because being in posession of those things is not a crime as defined by the state. and as for the police setting him up, as much as i hate them, i really don't think they would care enough to do that. plus pete isn't your ordinary doper, he could seriously kick up a fuss over wrongful arrest.

pete or kate or someone should hire me to look after him and be an assistant to him.

Kick up a fuss? I don't think Joe Schmoe on the street is going to be up in arms shouting about injustice for a guy who's been successfully prosecuted for coke possession 17 times, gets busted again, and claims it's a frame-up and the cops planted the dope on him this time.

It's like the boy who cried wolf, only in reverse.

...

The wolf who cried boy.

or something.

Who cares.
Like everyone else said, it's all getting old.
But you know what.
He's hot.
So I'm happy.