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Dec 15, 2006 1:00 pm US/Central
Phish Guitarist Trey Anastasio Faces DWI Charges
WHITEHALL, N.Y. (CBS) ―
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Trey Anastasio (File)
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Guitarist Trey Anastasio was accused of driving under the influence of drugs in an upstate New York town near the Vermont border early Friday, according to reports.
The former Phish front man was pulled over by an officer who saw his car failing to keep to right side of the road at about 3:30 a.m., said Whitehall village police.
A search turned up quantities of the painkillers hydrocodone and Percocet, as well as the anti-anxiety drug Xanax, which had been prescribed for someone else, police said.
Anastasio, who was driving with a suspended New York license, was charged with third-degree aggravated unlicensed operation, seventh-degree criminal possession of a controlled substance and driving while intoxicated-drugs, police said. He was released and scheduled for a court appearance at a later date.
Anastasio lives in Vermont and has been performing solo since
Phish broke up in 2004.
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