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http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,23450410-5012974,00.html
POISON drummer Rikki Rockett has been arrested on a rape warrant and his case turned over to the district attorney's office for a decision on whether to pursue charges, US officials say.
Rockett, 46, was arrested on Monday at or near Los Angeles International Airport, Los Angeles police said today.
The former 1980s glam metal band member was booked and released, and was awaiting an extradition decision by Mississippi prosecutors.
A woman in Mississippi filed a complaint that she was raped on September 23, 2007, at the Silver Star Casino, Neshoba County sheriff's investigator Ralph Sciple said.
"The subject, Rikki Rockett, forcibly had sex with an adult in one of the hotel rooms," according to a complaint.
Sciple said the woman contacted authorities several days after the alleged attack.
He did not discuss details of the case, but said his office believed the woman's complaint warranted review by the district attorney.
The casino-hotel complex in Philadelphia, Mississippi, about an hour northeast of Jackson, is owned by the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians.
Rockett, whose real name is Richard Ream, did not have a listed number in the Los Angeles area and could not be reached today for comment.
Rockett was booked into the Los Angeles County jail under his stage name and released early on Tuesday, according to jail inmate information on the county sheriff's website.
Sciple said there was no immediate attempt to bring Rockett back to Mississippi and a decision on extradition would await action by the district attorney.
Rockett and singer Bret Michaels founded Poison, the glam-metal band with a string of hits in the 1980s, including Talk Dirty to Me. |
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