Weiland had pleaded innocent to the charge

Scott Weiland, singer with US rock group Stone Temple Pilots, has been sentenced to three years' probation for drug possession.

Weiland, 35, will be required to continue counselling and rehabilitation sessions, and he also faces random drug testing.

He was sentenced by a court in Pasadena, California, after being arrested in May during a routine traffic operation by police in Burbank.

Police said they had seen drug paraphernalia inside the car. Weiland and the driver, Jennifer Lynn Sires, 29, were later charged with cocaine and heroin possession.

Weiland had pleaded innocent to the charge.

He had been jailed in 1999 for violating his probation after being convicted of heroin possession in 1998.

Weiland had been one of the biggest stars of the US grunge music scene in the early 1990s.

Stone Temple Pilots' 1992 debut album, Core, sold three million copies, while the follow-up, Purple, went to number one in the US two years later.

Weiland has been working on a project with the group Velvet Revolver - featuring former Guns N' Roses members Slash, Duff McKagan and Matt Sorum as well as David Kushner of Suicidal Tendencies.

His publicist said: "Scott is doing very well, thanks everybody for their support and is looking forward to making the Velvet Revolver album to be released early next year."