Joe Seiders, the drummer for indie rock band the New Pornographers, has been arrested on possession of kid pornography fees, the Riverside County Sheriff’s Division confirmed in a press launch Thursday.
Quickly after the arrest, the band confirmed that Seiders, 44, is not a member of the group. “Everybody within the band is completely devastated by the information of the fees towards Joe Seiders — and we now have instantly severed all ties with him,” the band mentioned in a press release shared on social media. “Our hearts exit to everybody who has been impacted by his actions.”
The New Pornographers have been fashioned within the ’90s, and Seiders joined in 2014, enjoying drums and singing backup vocals on the band’s most-recent three albums Whiteout Circumstances, Within the Morse Code of Brake Lights and Proceed as a Ghost.
In line with the Sheriff’s Division, authorities have been first dispatched to a Palm Desert enterprise within the late afternoon on April seventh, talking with an 11-year-old boy who mentioned an unidentified male had recorded him on his cellphone whereas the boy was utilizing the restroom. Two days later, authorities received a second report on the identical location at simply previous 5 p.m., after an worker mentioned {that a} man was “getting into and exiting the restroom with juvenile males on the enterprise.” Authorities recognized the person as Seiders and took him into custody.
Authorities obtained search warrants for Seiders’ residence, cellphone and car and located proof implicating him within the two reported incidents, in addition to different crimes, the discharge mentioned. Authorities mentioned Seiders was booked into Indio’s John Benoit Detention Heart for possession of kid pornography, annoying/molesting a baby, invasion of privateness, and tried invasion of privateness.
