Snoop Dogg arrested

Rapper Snoop Dogg was arrested over the weekend after border control agents found what they said was a small amount of marijuana on his tour bus.

The singer and record producer, 40, was stopped at the same Texas checkpoint on Saturday where country singer Willie Nelson was arrested for marijuana possession in 2010, customs officials confirmed.

Bill Brooks, a spokesman for Customs and Border Protection, said agents conducted a routine inspection of the rapper's tour bus on at the US-Mexico border checkpoint east of El Paso and thought they smelled marijuana.

"When our officers did a further inspection, they discovered a small amount of marijuana and turned him over to the Hudspeth County sheriff," he said.

Mr Brooks declined to say how much marijuana was involved or where it was found.

The rapper was booked and released and has been given a January 20 court date.

Snoop Dogg, whose real name is Calvin Broadus, has been arrested and convicted numerous times in the last 10 years for possession of drugs ranging from marijuana to cocaine, as well as weapons offences.​

SNOOP Dogg has reportedly been arrested for cannabis possession.

The rapper - who has been jailed on numerous occasions over drug and firearm possession charges in the past - had his tour bus stopped by law enforcement officers at a border patrol checkpoint in the small Texan town of Sierra Blanca over the weekend, TMZ.com reports.

During a standard inspection of the vehicle, police were said to be alerted by a sniffer dog to a red prescription bottle containing several joints inside, believed to amount to half an ounce of the drug.

Law enforcement sources claim Snoop admitted the cannabis was his and while he has a prescription for the substance in his home state of California, there is a zero tolerance policy for the drug in Texas.

The rapper was issued with a citation for misdemeanor drug possession and released, but if he is convicted on the charge, he could face up to 180 days in jail.

Snoop Dogg's spliff riff

The arrest comes just days after he was spotted smoking a suspicious-looking cigarette at Metros City Concert Club in Perth.

Last Tuesday he opened his Summadayze performance by asking the crowd, "Does anyone have any weed?"​