The head of Cage the Elephant, Matt Shultz was arrested in New York
The head of Cage The Elephant, Matt Shultz, was arrested in New York on charges of possession of a loaded weapon.
The singer, 39, was taken into custody after police discovered a weapon in a room at the Bowery Hotel in lower Manhattan.
Officials from the New York Police Department (NYPD) responded to a 911 call around 10 a.m. Thursday following a report of a person in possession of a weapon.
“Police were at the site and following investigation, they received a search warrant and recovered two loaded firearms from a room at the site,” an NYPD spokesman said in a statement. announced to the PA news agency.
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HXD2F1 Cage the Elephant singer Matt Shultz performs the Estereopicnic Music Festival on March 23, 2017 in Bogota, Colombia
Shultz was arrested and charged with possession of a weapon.
Photos and videos circulating online show the singer being escorted from the facility by NYPD officers, wearing a large life jacket.
Shultz formed the American rock band Cage the Elephant with his brother in 2006 in Kentucky, before moving to London in 2008.
The band won two Grammy Awards for best rock album, first in 2017 for Tell Me I’m Pretty and again in 2020 for Social Cues.
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