Lead singer of Grammy-winning rock band Cage The Elephant Matt Shultz, 39, is arrested
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EXCLUSIVE: Lead singer of Grammy-winning rock band Cage The Elephant Matt Shultz, 39, is arrested after police found two loaded guns in his Manhattan hotel room
- Matthew Shultz, 39, was charged with felony criminal possession of a firearm.
- He is the lead singer of the Grammy Award-winning rock band Cage The Elephant.
- A hotel employee saw Shultz carrying a handgun in a public restroom on the ground floor Wednesday night.
- Cops found two loaded guns, a Sig Sauer and a Smith & Wesson, in his hotel room on Manhattan’s Lower East Side.
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The lead singer of Grammy-winning rock band Cage The Elephant was arrested Thursday night after police found two loaded firearms in his room at the Bowery Hotel on Manhattan’s Lower East Side, it reported. DailyMail.com.
Matt Shultz, 39, was charged with felony possession of a firearm.
A hotel employee saw Shultz, who was a guest, carrying a handgun in a public restroom on the ground floor Wednesday night.
Officers, responding Thursday morning, knocked on the door of Shultz’s hotel room.
He went out into the hallway and admitted that he had two .45 caliber pistols.
Matthew Shultz, 39, was charged with felony possession of a firearm. He was seen leaving the ninth precinct on Friday.
A hotel employee saw Shultz carrying a handgun in a public restroom on the ground floor Wednesday night.
Shultz is the lead singer of the Grammy Award-winning rock band Cage The Elephant.
They then asked him if he still had the weapons, and he told police he didn’t know.
That led the police to arrest him and take him to the 9th precinct police station.
A judge granted a search warrant allowing police to enter the room, where they discovered two loaded guns, a Sig Sauer and a Smith & Wesson.
He did not have a firearms license.
Shultz spent the night at the 9th precinct in Lower Manhattan.
On Friday morning he was taken to Bellevue Hospital for medication and then returned to the police station a few hours later.
Shultz is a musician, songwriter and guitarist for the band that won a Grammy for Best Rock Album in 2016 for ‘Tell Me I’m Pretty’ and in 2019 for ‘Social Cues.’
Cops found two loaded guns, a Sig Sauer and a Smith & Wesson, in his hotel room at the Bowery Hotel on Manhattan’s Lower East Side.
Photos from DailyMail.com show Shultz being escorted out of the ninth precinct.
He was wearing a black puffer jacket with the hood pulled up as he walked around in handcuffs.
Shultz, who is from Nashville, Tennessee, has no criminal record.
He is a musician, songwriter and guitarist for the band that won a Grammy for Best Rock Album in 2016 for ‘Tell Me I’m Pretty’ and in 2019 for ‘Social Cues’.