Shultz was taken into custody Thursday on the Bowery Lodge in New York Metropolis
Matt Shultz, the lead singer of Cage The Elephant, was detained by New York Police Thursday morning for possessing two loaded firearms on the Bowery Lodge in Decrease Manhattan, NYPD confirmed to Rolling Stone.
The musician was charged with prison possession of firearms after police discovered Shultz’s weapons — a Sig Sauer and a Smith and Wesson, per Every day Mail — within his room on the Bowery Lodge in Decrease Manhattan. He spent the night time behind bars on the ninth precinct.
A rep for Cage The Elephant didn’t instantly reply to Rolling Stone‘s request for remark.
In keeping with Every day Mail, a resort worker reportedly noticed the singer carrying a handgun into one of many restrooms, earlier than calling 911. (A supervisor for the Bowery instructed Rolling Stone they “weren’t certain who that’s” earlier than hanging up the cellphone.)
Cage The Elephant has gained Grammys for Greatest Rock Album in 2015 for Inform Me I’m Fairly and 2019 for Social Cues.
The group has not launched any music since “The Unforgiven” in 2021 and single “Damaged Boy” with Iggy Pop the yr prior. Their 2019 LP Social Cues featured “Evening Working” with Beck. They just lately carried out at Wonderfont Competition in San Diego in late November.