Ike Turner Jr., the son of deceased award-winning singers Tina Turner and Ike Turner, was on Might 6 arrested after police discovered crack cocaine in his possession throughout a visitors cease, PEOPLE reported. Throughout his encounter with the officers, Ike Jr. allegedly tried to devour the narcotics in his possession.
The 64-year-old, who was charged with crack cocaine possession and tampering with proof, subsequently obtained an 18-day jail sentence shortly after his arrest. Ike Jr.’s jail sentence additionally got here 18 days earlier than the Might 24 demise of his mom, Tina, who’s broadly considered the Queen of Rock & Roll.
In keeping with the Police, Officers in Alvin, Texas, pulled Ike Jr. over for a visitors offense, and thru an investigation, later managed to grab 1.7 grams of crack cocaine and 0.7 grams of methamphetamine in Ike Jr.’s possession when he tried to devour the narcotics.
“He tried to eat the medicine earlier than the officers might seize them from him,” Alvin Police Division officer, Capt. Q.T. Arendell, stated. The incident report acknowledged that a person who was using within the automotive with the 64-year-old was additionally charged with possession of a managed substance (methamphetamines).
Ike Jr. was initially Tina’s sound engineer after his mom and father went their separate methods. Nevertheless, he claimed his father, who was abusive in the direction of his mom, was not in favor of him working with the singer, inflicting that relationship to finish.
“When my mom and father separated, he didn’t need me working together with her — and he beat me within the head with a nickel-plated .45 pistol,” Ike Jr. claimed. In a 2018 interview with the Day by day Mail, Ike Jr. additionally stated the final time he spoke to his mom was over a decade in the past.
Apart from the 2 expenses, the incident report seems to point out Ike Jr. additionally has an excellent warrant for a unique case, per PEOPLE. Jail information state that the 64-year-old is being held on the Brazoria County Jail on a $70,000 bail.
