Joe Seiders, the drummer for indie rock band the New Pornographers, has been arrested on possession of kid pornography expenses, 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 totally devastated by the information of the fees in opposition to Joe Seiders — and we now have instantly severed all ties with him,” the band stated in an announcement shared on social media. “Our hearts exit to everybody who has been impacted by his actions.”
The New Pornographers had been fashioned within the ’90s, and Seiders joined in 2014, taking part in drums and singing backup vocals on the band’s most up-to-date three albums Whiteout Circumstances, Within the Morse Code of Brake Lights and Proceed as a Ghost.
In keeping with the Sheriff’s Division, authorities had been first dispatched to a Palm Desert enterprise within the late afternoon on April 7, talking with an 11-year-old boy who stated an unidentified male had recorded him on his cellphone whereas the boy was utilizing the restroom. Two days later, authorities obtained a second report on the identical location at simply previous 5 p.m., after an worker stated {that a} man was “coming 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 stated. Authorities stated 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.
