Last Thursday night (Jan. 5), Cage the Elephant vocalist Matt Shultz – who has no prior criminal record –was arrested for unlawfully having two guns in his possession, Consequence reported. According to Deadline, he has now posted “$10,000 bail and awaits a February hearing in New York City.”
Deadline clarified that the two firearms were found in his “Lower Manhattan hotel,” adding, “Police were called when someone saw him take a gun from his pocket. The 39-year-old appeared to be intoxicated, police said.” Consequence specified that said person was “an employee at the Bowery Hotel . . . [who] allegedly saw him carrying a handgun into a ground floor public bathroom.”
When questioned by the NYPD, Shultz “admitted that he owned two .45 caliber guns, a Sig Sauer and a Smith & Wesson, though at the time he reportedly claimed to not remember if they were still in the hotel,” Consequence elaborated. Upon receiving a search warrant from a judge, police indeed found the two unlicensed and loaded weapons in his hotel room.
After spending the night at the 9th precinct in Manhattan, Consequence continued, Shultz “was reportedly taken to Bellevue Hospital to acquire some necessary medication before being returned a few hours later.”
Deadline also noted that prosecutors “said they also confiscated 11 Polaroid photos of the guns including some that depicted ‘a hand holding, pointing of the firearm.’ Additionally, six handwritten notes were found, ‘one of which states in substance: ‘I will protect myself if I am attacked.’”
The publication also specified that Shultz’s “attorney said in court the guns were purchased legally and registered, but not in New York.”
TMZ has obtained footage of Shultz being arrested, which you can view below:
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