Drug charges against U.S. skiing great Bode Miller are being dismissed
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- Two misdemeanor drug charges against six-time Olympic medalist Bode Miller are being dismissed by prosecutors in Idaho.
- A sheriff’s deputy had said Miller was in possession of a dispensary bag holding 4.1 grams of illegal psilocybin mushrooms at the time of his June 6 arrest.
- The 48-year-old former skiing star’s attorney said that “no drugs were found on Bode’s person.”
Bode Miller is in the clear.
Weeks after the U.S. alpine skiing great pleaded not guilty to misdemeanor charges of possession of a controlled substance and possession of drug paraphernalia in Idaho, Fremont County prosecuting attorney Lindsey Blake confirmed to The Times that both charges are being dismissed.
“Although the deputy had sufficient probable cause to arrest Mr. Miller at the beginning of June, we recently received information which resulted in our office determining it is in the interest of justice to dismiss Mr. Miller’s misdemeanor charges,” Blake said in an email. “I will not be discussing the specifics of this recent information due to it being related to another active case.”
U.S. skiing great Bode Miller faces two misdemeanor drug charges in Idaho, with conflicting accounts over whether cannabis or psychedelic mushrooms were involved in the arrest.
Miller was arrested June 6 in Fremont County. According to a probable cause statement by Sheriff’s Deputy Jacob Hurt, the six-time Olympic medalist was in possession of a white dispensary bag containing 4.1 grams of psilocybin mushrooms.
Hurt said in his statement that Miller “knew that the Psilocybin mushrooms were illegal.” The 48-year-old former athlete was taken into custody and released the same day after posting a $5,000 bond. On June 11, Miller pleaded not guilty to possession of a controlled substance and possession of drug paraphernalia.
In a statement posted to Instagram on Tuesday, Miller gave a different account of what led to his arrest.
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“I was pulled over for accelerating while passing another vehicle on a highway in Idaho,” Miller said. “My friend, who was traveling with me, had a small amount of cannabis and a cannabis pipe in his possession which I was unaware of. We fully cooperated with the officer. I am hopeful the misdemeanor charges will be dropped once the facts are reviewed.”
Miller’s attorney Jeromy Stafford said in a statement emailed to The Times earlier Thursday: “No drugs were found on Bode’s person.”
