Joe Seiders, who performed drums and keyboards in the New Pornographers, has been arrested for possession of kid pornography, the Riverside County Sheriff’s Division mentioned in a information launch. In response to on-line information, Seiders was arrested on April 9 and stays in jail together with his bail set at $1 million.
In a press release shared with Pitchfork, a spokesperson for the New Pornographers mentioned: “Everybody within the band is completely shocked, horrified, and devastated by the information of the fees in opposition to Joe Seiders—and now we have instantly severed all ties with him. Our hearts exit to everybody who has been impacted by his actions.”
In response to the information launch and on-line information, law enforcement officials responded to “a suspicious circumstance” at a Chick-fil-A restaurant in Palm Desert, California, on Monday, April 7. An 11-year-old boy instructed the officers that “an unknown male grownup recorded him on a cellphone whereas he was utilizing the restroom on the location.”
Two days later, police responded to an incident on the similar restaurant, the place an worker mentioned that “a male was coming into and exiting the restroom with juvenile males on the enterprise.” The person was recognized as Seiders, and he was apprehended by police and brought into custody.
Following Seiders’ arrest, officers searched his residence, car, and cellphone and located proof implicating him within the two Chick-fil-A incidents and extra crimes, in line with the information launch.
Along with the felony cost of possession of kid pornography, Seiders was booked on misdemeanors prices of annoying/molesting a toddler, invasion of privateness, and tried invasion of privateness. Data present that he has pleaded not responsible to all prices. He’s due in court docket on Tuesday, April 22.
Joe Seiders joined the New Pornographers after the discharge of their 2014 album Brill Bruisers, changing longtime drummer Kurt Dahle. He performed on 2017’s Whiteout Circumstances, 2019’s Within the Morse Code of Brake Lights, 2023’s Proceed as a Visitor, and the latest single “Ballad of the Final Payphone,” and he toured with the band persistently till his dismissal.
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