Cocaine in room where Scott Weiland found dead, bandmate arrested

Rock star Scott Weiland died of cardiac arrest as his bandmate was busted for cocaine possession, according to reports.

The 48-year-old former Stone Temple Pilots frontman wasn’t breathing and appeared to have suffered from cardiac arrest when he was found unresponsive on his tour bus Thursday evening, a dispatcher said in an emergency dispatch call.

TMZ obtained a recording of the exchange between Minnesota’s Bloomington Police Department and the Hennepin County Sheriff’s Department.

Police said they found cocaine in the singer’s bedroom and elsewhere on the bus.

The band’s bassist Tommy Black was arrested and charged with felony drug possession, according to TMZ.

Officials have not confirmed Weiland’s cause of death.

The singer, “passed away in his sleep while on a tour stop in Bloomington, Minnesota, with his band The Wildabouts,” according to a post on his Facebook page Friday morning.

Weiland, best known as the flamboyant frontman for Stone Temple Pilots and Velvet Revolver, openly struggled with drug addiction throughout his three-decade long career.