The bandmate arrested on a drug allegation in connection with the death of rocker Scott Weiland outside a Bloomington hotel has been released from jail as authorities continue their investigation.
Weiland, 48, was found dead Dec. 3 in his tour bus, and cocaine was located in the bedroom of the vehicle, authorities said.
This week, Weiland's ex-wife wrote for Rolling Stone magazine an unvarnished view of him as a neglectful father to their two teenage children. She said he had battled paranoia for years and had trouble remembering lines to his own songs.
"Over the last few years, I could hear his sadness and confusion when he'd call me late into the night, often crying about his inability to separate himself from negative people and bad choices," Mary Forsberg Weiland wrote.
Best known for fronting the multiplatinum 1990s band Stone Temple Pilots, Weiland had been scheduled to perform at a club in Rochester on Friday.
He was dead when officers arrived at the bus outside the Country Inn & Suites at the Mall of America.
Police arrested Thomas Delton Black, 47, of Studio City, Calif., a member of Weiland's current band, the Wildabouts, on suspicion of having an additional small amount of cocaine.
Black was released from the Bloomington city jail on Friday afternoon "pending further investigation" into Weiland's death, Deputy Police Chief Denis Otterness said Tuesday.
