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Article: Pete Doherty Fined for Cocaine Use
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- June 19, 2006
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06-19-2006
Dateline: STOCKHOLM, Sweden
Pete Doherty of British pop group Babyshambles sings at the Hultsfred music festival in southern Sweden Friday evening June 16, 2006. Swedish police fined Pete Doherty after the concert, after traces of cocaine were found in his blood, officials said. Police detained the British rocker after the concert because "he showed signs of being under the influence of narcotics," said Ulf Karlsson, a police spokesman in the city of Kalmar on Sweden's southeastern coast. Tests showed traces of cocaine and benzodiazepine, a minor tranquilizer that Doherty had a prescription for, Karlsson said. Doherty was fined 14,000 kronor (1,500; US$1,900) and was ...