Rose McGowan Faces Arrest Warrant for Alleged Drug Possession
Actress Rose McGowan faces an arrest warrant for felony possession of a controlled substance.On Monday, McGowan, 44, tweeted to her followers that a warrant had been issued for her arrest in Virginia.
"Are they trying to silence me? There is a warrant out for my arrest in Virginia. What a load of HORSES--T," McGowan wrote.
The felony charge stems from an investigation of personal belongings left behind on a United flight arriving at Washington Dulles International Airport on Jan. 20, police said, according to The Associated Press.
After the items allegedly tested positive for narcotics, the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority Police Department obtained a warrant for McGowan's arrest on Feb. 1, the AP reported.The Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority Police Department did not immediately respond a request for comment.
It is unclear when McGowan first learned of the warrant for her arrest.
Police told the AP they've attempted to contact McGowan so she can appear in a Loudoun County, Virginia, court. The warrant has been entered into a national law enforcement database.
McGowan was named in an article by The New York Times as one of the women who settled a sexual harassment suit with now-disgraced media mogul Harvey Weinstein. She has accused him of raping her but Weinstein has repeatedly denied all claims of nonconsensual sex "unequivocally."
She has since become one of the leading voices speaking out against sexual assault in the film industry, mostly recently addressing a Women's Convention rally in Detroit on Friday.
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Seriously, trying to silence her? Who? Is there anyone trying to discredit her on the Weinstein thing? Or is it just that as an actress she has no foot planted in the reality that you don't take drugs with you to the airport, you don't leave them in your personal luggage, you take your personal stuff with you when you leave the airport.
The rape allegations and this are two distinctly different things. I hope she pursues the charges against Weinstein. As to the drug charges, if you do something stupid and criminal and get caught? You get to pay for that. That's how real life works.
After the items allegedly tested positive for narcotics, the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority Police Department obtained a warrant for McGowan's arrest on Feb. 1, the AP reported.The Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority Police Department did not immediately respond a request for comment.
That doesn't imply that drugs were found. An unclaimed item will be passed before bomb and drug sniffing dogs. If this is based on residue, rather than a bag of actual drugs, then it's a pretty thin case. You would be shocked at how many $20 bills that you have handled which were up someone's nose before being transferred to you.
I would think that enough was found for an arrest warrant.
You would think that would have been clarified in the article if that were the case.
And yet, there is a warrant open for her arrest based on what they found, poor journalistic reporting aside.
Are he rape allegations supposed to exempt her from any other prosecution for like illegal drugs?
Not sure what the last two paragraphs have to do with the rest of the story.
Typically the way NBC News does it, relates other stories to the story at hand......tenuous relation at best here, as far as I can tell.