A rising country star headed to the Alamo City for one of the biggest Fiesta San Antonio events of the season had his very own, “This is going to ruin the world tour,” moment in the Lone Star State. Tanner Usrey was booked into the Collins County jail on a DWI and drug-possession charge just two weeks before his big Oyster Bake debut.
The country singer, known mostly for hits in the earlier half of the decade like “Hold On to Me” and “Give It Some Time,” was arrested in McKinney on Monday, March 30, according to jail records in Collins County. He was booked on two drug possession charges and a driving while intoxicated offense.
According to those same records, this is Usrey’s second time snagging a DWI case. In Texas, DWI offenses escalate, so he’s facing Class A misdemeanor with a punishment range of 30 days to a year. One of these drug charges is for possessing between 4 and 200 grams of a Penalty Group 1/1-B drug, which includes meth, cocaine, heroin and fentanyl.
His other possession charge is for a Penalty Group 2 drug, which are classified as drugs deemed “softer” but that still have no proven medical use. These include THC or marijuana-derived substances outlawed in the ever-confusing Texas legal battle with the psychoactive drug, mushrooms, MDMA, PCP, Adderall, GHB and mescaline.
According to the arrest records, Usrey, 32, was released from jail on a surety bond. This means he likely entered a contract with a bail bondsman to pay for the $12,500 bond with felony conditions set by a judge. The court records show there was also an affidavit of indigency filed in his case, which is often when a defendant is asking to have court costs and attorney’s fees covered by the state due to lack of personal funds.
Usrey is set to play at 7:15 p.m. on April 18 at Oyster Bake. MySA reached out to the McKinney Police Department and Oyster Bake for additional information but did not hear back by publication.