13 celebrities who were detained at airports (With Pictures)

4. Paul McCartney

The former Beatle who was on tour with Wings at the time, was arrested trying to bring marijuana into Japan back in January, 1980. There was half a pound of the stuff and in his own words “it was too good to flush down the toilet so I thought I’d take it with me” adding that he found it unlikely that Japan would have had dope up to his standards.

He faced a possible seven year sentence for the amount he had tried to bring in, but ultimately served just nine days in jail before the Japanese government just kicked him out of the country.