The Region - News from Aug. 21, 1987
Singer Ike Turner, ex-husband of rock star Tina Turner, was arrested on suspicion of cocaine possession during a routine traffic stop in West Hollywood, sheriff’s deputies said. Turner, 54, was booked after deputies found what they thought was rock cocaine in his Lincoln Continental when they pulled him over on Santa Monica Boulevard, investigators said. Ike Turner, who was divorced from his wife in 1972, has been arrested several times on drug-related charges, including another drug arrest in West Hollywood on Jan. 11, 1986.
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