Post by copperkid3 on Mar 10, 2016 19:51:04 GMT -5
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LAS VEGAS (AP) — The man known to millions of cable TV viewers as Chumlee on the reality show “Pawn Stars”
was being held late Wednesday in a Las Vegas jail following his arrest on felony weapon and drug charges.
Austin Lee Russell, 33, was taken into custody when officers serving a search warrant in a sexual assault investigation
found methamphetamine, marijuana and at least one gun at his southwest Las Vegas home, police said in a statement.
www.yahoo.com/news/pawn-stars-figure-jailed-vegas-weapon-drug-charges-015215910.html
Russell was being held pending an initial court appearance on 19 drug-possession charges and one
weapon charge, according to Clark County Detention Center records. His bail was set at $62,000.
Time will tell how the legal saga of “Pawn Stars” regular Austin “Chumlee” Russell shakes out,
but the reality TV star can count on one thing: his colleagues’ support.
On Thursday, a day after Russell was arrested on drug and weapon charges, Rick Harrison, co-owner
of the pawn shop on which the series is centered, said that Russell’s colleagues have his back.
“We don’t have details yet but we are here to help Chumlee any way we can,” Harrison told Fox News via email.
