New Pornographers drummer Joe Seiders has been arrested on baby pornography fees.
The rocker, 44, was taken into custody on April 9 after a restaurant worker known as police a couple of man “getting into and exiting the restroom with juvenile males,” per a press launch by the Riverside County Sheriff’s Workplace.
Seiders was taken into custody when police arrived on the scene and search warrants have been obtained for his residence, car and telephone.
Two days earlier, police have been known as to the identical Palm Desert eatery after a younger boy reported an inappropriate interplay with an older male.
The 11-year-old boy instructed deputies {that a} man “had recorded him on a cellular phone whereas he was utilizing the restroom on the location.”
Police concluded that each suspicious circumstances concerned the identical man: Seiders.
After executing their search warrants, regulation enforcement officers discovered extra proof “implicating [Seiders] within the two reported incidents, together with further crimes, together with possessing baby pornography.”
He was booked into the John Benoit Detention Heart in Indio for possession of kid pornography, annoying/molesting a baby, invasion of privateness and tried invasion of privateness.
The investigation is ongoing because the Sheriff’s workplace believes “there could also be further victims.”
In line with the Guardian, the musician is being held on a $1 million bail. He’s due in court docket on April 22.
Shortly after information of his arrest made headlines, his bandmates launched a joint assertion condemning Seiders and distancing themselves from the drummer.
“Everybody within the band is totally shocked, horrified, and devastated by the information of the costs towards Joe Seiders – and we’ve instantly severed all ties with him,” they shared through Instagram on Thursday.
“Our hearts exit to everybody who has been impacted by his actions.”
Seiders has been a part of the Canadian rock band, which was first fashioned in 1997, since 2014. Except for Seiders, the band contains vocalists Neko Case and Carl Newman, John Collins, Todd Fancey and Kathryn Calder.
The group dropped their newest single, “Ballad of the Final Payphone,” lower than one week earlier than Seider’s arrest.
For those who or somebody is affected by any of the problems raised on this story, name the Sexual Assault Hotline at 1-800-330-0226.
