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    • Mar 26, 1970
    Peter, Paul & Mary's Peter Yarrow is found guilty of "taking immoral liberties" with a 14-year-old girl, resulting in a three-month jail sentence. Six years later, he's the writer and producer of Mary MacGregor's pop-country hit "Torn Between Two Lovers"
    Apr 15, 1970
    "Welfare Cadilac" singer Guy Drake is arrested in Hartford, Kentucky, and jailed 18 months after he bought a 1968 Buick with a $750 check that bounced
    Jun 7, 1970
    Arsonists use kerosene to set a fire at Los Angeles club The Ash Grove. The venue reopens in days. The Melrose Avenue site has hosted The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, Johnny Cash, Bill Monroe, Flatt & Scruggs and Maybelle Carter, among others
    Aug 14, 1970
    Pop singer/songwriter Stephen Stills is arrested at a hotel in La Jolla, California, for cocaine possession. Currently a member of Crosby, Stills & Nash, he was a founding member of Buffalo Springfield, a pioneering country-rock band
    Mar 18, 1971
    Police raid "Hee Haw" comedian Lulu Roman's home in Dallas, finding more than five pounds of marijuana
    Jul 31, 1971
    The Ryman Auditorium is evacuated when the Grand Ole Opry receives a bomb threat. Nashville police scour the building but find nothing threatening, and the show resumes after a delay
    Oct 11, 1971
    Thieves break into the home of The Rolling Stones' Keith Richards and steal 11 guitars. The group's "Honky Tonk Women" is named in 2003 among country's 500 greatest singles in the Country Music Foundation's "Heartaches By The Number"
    Jan 21, 1972
    "Hee Haw" star Lulu Roman is sentenced in Dallas to four years in prison for possession of marijuana
    Aug 10, 1972
    "I Feel Fine" songwriter Paul McCartney and his wife, Linda, are arrested after a concert in Gothenburg, Sweden, and charged with drug possession
    Aug 25, 1972
    Junior Samples shows up at the jail in Georgia's Forsyth County to post bail for his manager, James Gibson, and son, Lamar Samples, each incarcerated on alcohol charges. Instead of freeing them, Junior is booked for being intoxicated



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