Scott Weiland, lead singer for the Stone Temple Pilots whose battle with drugs landed him in a treatment center, was arrested Monday with about $100 worth of heroin, police said.
Police stopped the 30-year-old Weiland as he walked out of a Manhattan housing project about 3 p.m., said police spokeswoman Valerie St. Rose. Weiland, from Pasadena, Calif., was charged with criminal trespassing and criminal possession of a controlled substance.
Weiland was arrested in May 1995 in Pasadena when police found cocaine in his car and heroin in his wallet. In April 1996, a judge ordered him to spend four to six months at a drug treatment center. Weiland was touring to support a solo album he released this year, “12 Bar Blues.” He had been scheduled to perform Monday night in New York, but that show was canceled.
