>Date: Thu, 29 Oct 1998 13:45:46 -0800
>From: David Everett <everettd@ix.netcom.com>
>To: sf swing Mailing List <sfswing@jabberwock.wonderland.com>
>Subject: [sfswing] More on RCR singer arrest
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>Remember cats, you never know who could be firing that spit ball at you.
>
>Dave
>
>
>>From Sonic Net news:
>[ Tues., October 27, 10:01 PM EST ]
>
> Police Probe Royal Crown Revue
> Singer Assault Arrest
>
> Alleged witness says swing-band frontman Eddie Nichols
> only assaulted Ohio officer to defend roadie.
>
> Contributing Editor Teri vanHorn reports:
>
> The Lucas County Sheriff's Dept.'s internal affairs office in Toledo,
>Ohio,
> will investigate whether off-duty officers did anything wrong in the
>arrest of
> the lead singer of the swing-band Royal Crown Revue and a roadie early
>
> Saturday morning, according to Lt. Bob McBroom.
>
> "The sheriff said we are going to conduct an investigation, so that is
>what
> we are going to do," McBroom said Tuesday (Oct. 27), adding that the
> investigation was ordered by County Sheriff James Telb. "I don't know
> what is going to be involved."
>
> After the Los Angeles-based band's show at the Citi
>Theater in Toledo on Friday night,
> frontman Eddie Nichols, 32, and the band's guitar
>technician, Steve Brewer, were arrested
> at about 3:30 a.m. Saturday at the city's 24-hour Big Boy
>Family Restaurant.
>
> Nichols was arrested for assaulting a police officer,
>disorderly conduct, simple assault and
> resisting arrest, while Brewer was arrested for
>disorderly conduct, resisting arrest and
> obstructing official business. Two officers were
>allegedly hurt in the altercation, according
> to local paper reports.
>
> Nichols and Brewer were taken to Lucas County Jail and
>held without bail through the
> weekend, causing the band to miss two performances.
>
> According to Royal Crown Revue's publicist, Monica Seide,
>Nichols' charges were reduced
> to a misdemeanor disorderly conduct Monday morning, but
>the reduced charges could not
> be confirmed through the sheriff's office at press time.
>Both men were released Monday
> morning after a judge called the jail and ordered their
>release, Seide said.
>
> While Nichols was being processed for release Monday, he was taken
>into custody again when another
> officer claimed to have been assaulted by the singer. He was released
>a second time Monday night.
>
> Royal Crown Revue's tour in support of their latest album, The
>Contender, is going on as scheduled, with a
> performance Tuesday night (Oct. 27) at Oberlin College in Oberlin,
>Ohio.
>
> Seide, who had spoken with Nichols as well as the band's tour manager,
>said an off-duty deputy sheriff hit
> Nichols with spitballs before the singer allegedly punched him. She
>added that one of the police officers used
> a restaurant security officer's baton to strike Brewer repeatedly; the
>roadie lost his peripheral vision in the
> attack. Nichols was pepper-sprayed.
>
> "There were a dozen people at their table, and we have no idea how
>many were officers," Seide said.
>
> In the lounge section of the band's official website (www.rcr.com), a
>fan claiming to be an eyewitness posted
> a detailed account of the incident.
>
> The 21-year-old fan, who identified himself only as Adrian, said he
>was sitting at a table with Nichols and
> Brewer at the time the incident began. Adrian said he was the first to
>be hit with a spitball, which began the
> altercation between the two parties.
>
> Adrian claimed that Nichols only struck the officer in defense of
>Brewer. "He was just defending his friend,"
> he said. "That's what it really came down to."
>
> Adrian added that the men did not reveal that they were officers until
>well after the fight had ensued. The fan,
> who was on his way out to Royal Crown Revue's show Tuesday, said that
>he still felt shock over the incident.
> He added that he has not been contacted by the police.
>
> According to Seide, Nichols said that Adrian's account of the incident
>was "pretty accurate."
>
> Messages left for two of the officers allegedly involved in the
>incident were not returned Tuesday (Oct. 27).
>
> McBroom could not be reached again for comment. The manager at Big Boy
>Restaurant, who did not want
> her name printed, said she was unaware of the incident.
>
> A hearing has been set for Nov. 24. According to Seide, Nichols and
>Brewer have been told by their lawyers
> not to speak about the incident.
>
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