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Report: PUDDLE OF MUDD Singer Arrested After Drunken Performance

February 23, 2004

PUDDLE OF MUDD frontman Wes Scantlin was placed in police custody Sunday night (Feb. 22) after cutting the band's set short in Toledo, Ohio and announcing he was too wasted to play, according to MTV.com.

Scantlin's bandmates reportedly walked off the stage four songs into the band's performance at Headliners club, leaving a "stumbling, hostile" Scantlin alone. Despite being, by his own admission, "too fucked up" to perform, he remained onstage for half an hour after the band's departure, exchanging insults and profanity with the audience and singing songs that he seemed to make up as he went along. Scantlin eventually headed back to his dressing room, where he was arrested by Toledo police for disorderly conduct-intoxication. Charges of criminal mischief and misconduct involving a public transportation system were reportedly added when Scantlin spit in the Toledo police cruiser en route to his booking, MTV.com reports.

All three charges are misdemeanors. Scantlin was released on a cash bond of $150 and is scheduled to be arraigned in Toledo Municipal Court on Tuesday.

Meanwhile, Toledo, Ohio radio station 104.7 WIOT has posted the following message on their web site: "104.7 WIOT, proud to be Toledo's Concert Leader, is as upset as you are about what happened Sunday night at the PUDDLE OF MUDD show. After performing just four songs, P.O.M. lead singer Wes Scantlin shouted several obscenities at the audience, walked off the stage, and was then arrested and charged with disorderly conduct and criminal mischief. 104.7 WIOT is now working closely with the band's management and the concert promoters in an effort to 'make things right.' We hope that this will be resolved quickly."

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