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Puddle Of Mudd Singer Arrested After Standoff With SWAT Team
By B.J. LISKO,
1 day ago
Puddle Of Mudd’s Wes Scantlin is no stranger to run-ins with the law. The troubled singer has battled addiction issues over the years and has been arrested and/or detained multiple times.
TMZ reports that Scantlin was arrested again earlier this week on an outstanding warrant and a new charge of resisting arrest. He was reportedly pulled over for a traffic violation in Burbank, California and asked to get out of his car once it was discovered he had an active warrant on a previous charge of possessing a weapon at an airport.
TMZ then reports that he refused to get out of his Hummer H2. A negotiator was called in, but when he didn’t respond to that, police used pepper spray to get him out of the car. That also apparently didn’t work, so a SWAT team was called to break the car window and “shoot non-lethal pepper balls” to make Scantlin surrender.
They apparently took him to the hospital to get his eyes flushed, but he suffered no other injuries. He was arrested and is due to appear in court on Aug. 20.
Scantlin used to be notorious for ending Puddle Of Mudd shows early for various reasons including once where he accused a fan of stealing his house. He previously said he got sober in 2017, but his consistent run-ins with the law might suggest otherwise.
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