Barenaked Ladies lead-singer Steven Page was arrested Friday on a cocaine felony near Syracuse, New York. If convicted, he faces up to 15-years in prison.
The arrest comes shortly after the band released a kids CD named Snack Time. If it was heroin, I’d have been able to make a “Smack Time” joke. Better luck next time to me, I guess.
Manlius Town Police arrested Page and Stephanie M. Ford, 25, of Fayetteville shortly after 2 a. m. Friday. Officers on patrol on East Genesee Street in the village found a vehicle parked across a sidewalk in a driveway with its driver’s door open and no one nearby, according to Manlius Police Capt. Bill Bleyle.
“It just raised the suspicions of the officers,” Bleyle said. “The owner of the car was not there.”
They approached the residence to investigate, he said, and through the window of a door saw a man and a woman sitting at the kitchen table with a white capsule in front of them.
Police said Ford was not the woman Page went to visit. That woman, 27-year-old Christine M. Benedicto, Ford’s roommate, and Page argued earlier and Benedicto left the area in Page’s car, according to Bleyle. Benedicto’s car was the one left in the driveway with the door open, police said.
When officers questioned Page and Ford, neither was able to provide cogent explanations, according to Bleyle.
“We subsequently obtained a search warrant for the apartment as well as [Page’s] car,” Bleyle said. “We impounded the car, and we found a small amount of additional cocaine.”
A small quantity of marijuana also was found in the apartment, he said. Ford and Benedicto also are facing drug charges in the incident.
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