Kate Moss's rock star boyfriend detained in drugs swoop

0 Comments | AFP, October, 2005

LONDON (AFP) — Pete Doherty, the drug-addicted rock musician boyfriend of supermodel Kate Moss, was released after being arrested following a raid on his tour bus, the singer told journalists.

Doherty said the arrest was "some sort of mistake," and insisted that he was not using drugs on his current tour.

He said police had confused a patch designed to get him off drugs with real narcotics.

"It's for an implant and they thought it was 'hard stuff'," he said.

Police in Shrewsbury, a town in central England, said they had carried out searches at one address and two coaches and detained "a number of people" in a major operation involving police dogs and forensic teams.

Doherty's band, Babyshambles, played a concert in Shrewsbury on Saturday...