Puddle of Mudd frontman Wes Scantlin was booked at a neighborhood jail on Wednesday (July thirty first) on an impressive warrant and for resisting arrest, stemming from an incident through which he allegedly refused to get out of his automobile and was subsequently pepper-balled by a SWAT group.
In line with TMZ, Scantlin was pulled over in his black Hummer H2 in Burbank, California, for a site visitors cease, and when officers came upon that the rocker had an impressive warrant for possessing a weapon at an airport, they requested him to get out of the automobile.
Scantlin apparently refused to exit the automobile, at which level a disaster negotiator was referred to as. Officers then tried to make use of pepper spray on the singer-guitarist, however that didn’t work both. At that time, they referred to as in a SWAT group, which promptly broke one of many automobile home windows and shot non-lethal pepper balls to lastly get the musician to exit his automobile.
After being taken to a neighborhood hospital to flush out his eyes, Scantlin was booked at a neighborhood jail and launched. A court docket date has been set for August twentieth.
Scantlin has a protracted historical past of run-ins with the legislation, together with an arrest for trespassing final 12 months. Previous to that, he confronted one other trespassing cost in 2016 for an incident on the similar home, which he purchased in 2005 for $1.7 million however misplaced to foreclosures roughly 10 years later.
The Puddle of Mudd singer was additionally arrested for making an attempt to deliver a BB gun on board a flight at LAX in 2017 (presumably the incident for which he had the excellent warrant), and for taking a joyride on a baggage carousel in Denver in 2015.
The frontman has additionally had quite a few breakdowns onstage, and as soon as infamously butchered a canopy of Nirvana’s “A few Lady,” later admitting that the efficiency “seemed and seemed like whole shit.”
Puddle of Mudd launched a string of hits within the early 2000s, together with “Blurry” (an acceptable music alternative for this newest incident), “She Hates Me,” “Drift & Die,” and “Psycho.” Early this 12 months, “Blurry” made ipromiseyoumedia‘s record of the 50 finest post-grunge songs.