New Pornographers drummer arrested on expenses of possessing little one pornography after allegedly filming 11-year-old in toilet

• The New Pornographers drummer Joseph Seiders was arrested on expenses of possession of kid pornography.
• The musician allegedly filmed an 11-year-old inside a California toilet.
• The band launched a press release saying it has "severed all ties" with Seiders.

The New Pornographers drummer Joseph Seiders has been arrested in California on expenses associated to little one pornography, Riverside County police introduced Friday.

The 44-year-old musician was arrested on April 9 and booked on the John Benoit Detention Heart in Indio, Calif., for alleged possession of kid pornography, annoying/molesting a baby, invasion of privateness, and tried invasion of privateness.

The arrest got here after Palm Desert police have been dispatched Monday, April 7, to a "suspicious circumstance" within the area's Dinah Shore Drive space, the place it was reported that an unidentified man recorded an 11-year-old boy whereas he was utilizing a restroom on the location.

Two days later, on April 9, deputies acquired one other report on the similar location, the place "an worker said a male was coming into and exiting the restroom with juvenile males on the enterprise," experiences a press launch.

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Shortly after, police recognized him because the suspect and, considering he was the identical particular person reported from the sooner incident, arrested him.

"The Palm Desert Station Investigations Bureau continued the investigation, serving search warrants for Seiders' residence, automobile, and cellphone," the discharge reads. "Proof was situated implicating him within the two reported incidents, together with extra crimes, together with possessing little one pornography."

Within the wake of Seiders' arrest, the indie-rock band launched a press release in a single day on Instagram.

"Everybody within the band is totally shocked, horrified, and devastated by the information of the costs towards Joe Seiders," the assertion reads. "And we now have instantly severed all ties with him. Our hearts exit to everybody who has been impacted by his actions."

When reached for remark, a consultant for the New Pornographers pointed Leisure Weekly to the assertion launched on social media because the group's response, and indicated that a person contact for Seiders was not instantly accessible.

Moreover, Riverside County Public Data officerDeirdre Vickers informed EW, "That is an ongoing investigation; the one info accessible was offered within the press launch."

The New Pornographers shaped in 1997 and have launched 9 studio albums between 2000 and 2023.

Of these releases, seven have charted on the Billboard 200, together with 2014's Brill Bruisers, which reached No. 13, making it the band's highest-charting album so far.

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The group's music has additionally been featured in quite a few initiatives, together with TV exhibits like Queer as Folks, The Workplace, Heroes, Weeds, and Gilmore Women, in addition to motion pictures like Jay and Silent Bob Strike Again and Ready.

Present New Pornographers members persevering with on with the group embrace Kathryn Calder, Neko Case, John Collins, Todd Fancey, and Carl Newman.

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