(Adds details from sheriff's spokesman)
SAN ANTONIO, Sept 20 (Reuters) - Grammy-winning singer Fiona
Apple spent the night in a Texas jail after being arrested late
Wednesday on a felony drug possession charge at a border patrol
checkpoint where her tour bus was searched, local officials
said.
Apple, 35, was taken into custody in Sierra Blanca, the same
small west Texas town where authorities previously nabbed singer
Willie Nelson, rapper Snoop Dogg and "The Social Network" actor
Armie Hammer on drug charges.
The singer-songwriter had 4 grams of hashish, a form of
cannabis, in her possession, said Rusty Fleming, spokesman for
the sheriff in Hudspeth County, of which Sierra Blanca is the
county seat.
Fleming said there were seven other people on the bus, but
Apple admitted the drugs were hers and everybody else was
allowed to drive on. She was respectful and calm, though became
concerned when she learned she would have to stay in jail
overnight, he said.
She was released after posting bail on Thursday, and her
jail stay passed "without incident," Fleming said.
Asked why so many celebrities have been arrested in the town
on Interstate 10, County Judge Becky Dean-Walker said, "because
they come through here with stuff they shouldn't have".
The Interstate 10 highway runs coast-to-coast across the
United States between California and Florida.
Apple, who won a Grammy for the single "Criminal" off her
1996 debut album "Tidal," was due to perform in Austin on
Thursday night but the venue's website said the show was
postponed.
A spokeswoman for Apple declined to comment.
(Additional reporting by Alex Dobuzinskis and Corrie MacLaggan;
Writing by Colleen Jenkins; Editing by Alden Bentley, Andrew Hay
and Lisa Shumaker)