There’s little doubt that every little thing was “blurry” for Puddle of Mudd frontman Wes Scantlin following a reported standoff with Burbank police.
TMZ reviews that Scantlin, 52, was pepper-sprayed and arrested by the Southern California police division following a visitors cease on Wednesday, July 31. The outlet shared that the rocker was pulled over in his Hummer H2 for an alleged visitors violation. A search on Scantlin turned up a warrant, at which level the state of affairs obtained tense.
Scantlin reportedly refused to get out of his automobile, even after Burbank PD known as in disaster negotiators. In line with the report, police allegedly then pepper-sprayed the “She Hates Me” singer, however he nonetheless declined to depart his car and was ultimately faraway from the automobile after a SWAT group was deployed. The squad reportedly broke Scantlin’s window and fired non-lethal pepper ball rounds into the car, at which level he relented.
Scantlin was arrested on the excellent warrant prices — stemming from allegations of carrying a gun in an airport — and a brand new resisting arrest cost. TMZ shared that he was taken to the hospital previous to his reserving. Scantlin was cited and launched, per the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Division. He’s set to seem in courtroom on August 20.
Us Weekly has reached out to Puddle of Mudd and Burbank Police for remark.
Scantlin has had quite a few run-ins with the regulation over the past decade. He was arrested in 2016 for felony vandalism of a Hollywood residence that the frontman misplaced in foreclosures. Authorities alleged that Scantlin broken the house with a hatchet. He pled out of that case and was given a sentence of three years probation and a $40,000 advantageous.
The foreclosed residence has been a thorn in Scantlin’s facet for years. He derailed a 2016 live performance by ranting at a fan that he believed “stole” the Hollywood Hills residence from him.
‘This motherf–ker proper right here stole my motherf–king home and now he’s standing proper f–king in entrance of me laughing at me. And he f–king figures I’m a f–king joke,” Scantlin mentioned, per MetalInjection.
The same rant that very same 12 months in Australia brought on Scantlin’s bandmates to stroll out of the present.
Scantlin has been arrested repeatedly at airports for various causes. He was arrested for carrying a BB gun into LAX in 2017. After pleading no contest to that cost, Scantlin was sentenced to twenty days in jail and a ban from flying out of the worldwide hub (until he was touring for work or abroad).
Scantlin claims he obtained sober in 2017, and the headlines have noticeably slowed since then.