2007-02-22 10:45:41 · 10 answers · asked by rabdin2002 1 in News & Events ➔ Media & Journalism
Although he carefully cultivated a romantic outlaw image, he never served a prison sentence, although he landed in jail seven times for misdemeanors, each stay lasting a single night.
His most serious and well-known run-in with the law occurred while on tour in 1965, when he was arrested by a narcotics squad in El Paso, Texas. The officers suspected that he was smuggling heroin from Mexico, but it was presciption narcotics and amphetamines that he had hidden inside his guitar case. Because they were prescription drugs rather than illegal narcotics, he received a suspended sentence.
He was arrested the following year in Starkville, Mississippi, for trespassing late at night onto private property to pick flowers. (This incident gave the spark for the song "Starkville City Jail", which he spoke about on his live At San Quentin prison album.)
The mid-1960s saw Cash release a number of concept albums, including Ballads Of The True West (1965), an experimental double record mixing authentic frontier songs with Cash's spoken narration; and Bitter Tears (1964), with songs highlighting the plight of the Native Americans. His drug addiction was at its worst at this point, however, and his destructive behavior led to a divorce from his first wife and canceled performances.
2007-02-22 11:05:11 · answer #1 · answered by Akkita 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No - He never was - He spent a few nights behind bars having been arrested (mainy for drug offences) but was never sentenced to jail time.
2007-02-22 18:52:54 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
He was convicted of selling second hand three piece suites to pensioners and trying to pass them off as new.
2007-02-22 18:52:55 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Yes. Drugs.
2007-02-22 18:52:56 · answer #4 · answered by lucysmom 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
i think possesion of controlled substances when he tried to get through customs with a guitar case full of amphetamines
2007-02-22 18:49:42 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I believe yes, but what he convicted of i don`t know.
2007-02-22 21:43:26 · answer #6 · answered by CLIVE C 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
yes. He was caught bringing drugs into the country and served jail time
2007-02-22 18:53:52 · answer #7 · answered by rabies1979 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋
yes
2007-02-22 18:51:32 · answer #8 · answered by cesare214 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
no, his outlaw image and prison songs were all made up
2007-02-22 18:53:43 · answer #9 · answered by music junkie 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
no he just played music in prisons
2007-02-22 18:51:31 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋