1992.12.04 - The San Francisco Examiner/Reuter - Guns N' Roses cleared in Chilean drug search

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Guns N' Roses cleared in Chilean drug search

REUTER

SANTIAGO, Chile, - U.S. rock group Guns N’ Roses has been allowed to leave Chile after a search for drugs aboard the group’s private plane turned up nothing, police said Thursday.

Detectives had earlier found traces of cocaine in the clothes of one of the band members, court officials said, prompting a lower court to order investigations into the rock group’s activities.

Detectives found cocaine traces in a tube tucked into clothes belonging to a member of the heavy-metal band on Wednesday night. The discovery was made when the clothes were being cleaned in a hotel laundry, detectives said.

The controversial, six-man rock group was due to leave Chile for neighboring Argentina on Thursday night, about nine hours later than originally scheduled.

At a Guns N’ Roses concert Wednesday, 10 people were injured in disturbances and 178 people were arrested for public disorder and alcohol and drug abuse, police said.