Matt Shultz, Cage the Elephant Singer, Arrested on Weapons Charges - The New York Times

Music|Matt Shultz, Cage the Elephant Singer, Arrested connected Weapons Charges

Matt Shultz, the pb vocalist of the indie stone set Cage the Elephant, was arrested astatine a Manhattan edifice connected Thursday connected weapons charges, instrumentality enforcement officials said.

Mr. Shultz, 39, was arrested connected Thursday greeting aft a Bowery Hotel worker had seen him propulsion a weapon from his pants pouch successful 1 of the hotel’s nationalist restrooms, according to a transgression complaint.

Mr. Shultz, of Nashville, appeared intoxicated, according to the Manhattan territory attorney’s office.

Police officers responded to a 911 call, obtained a hunt warrant and recovered 2 loaded firearms — a .45-caliber Smith & Wesson pistol and a .45-caliber Sig Sauer pistol — successful a container successful Mr. Shultz’s edifice room, according to tribunal records and the prosecutor’s office.

Officers besides recovered 11 Polaroid photos of the guns, immoderate showing a manus pointing to the firearms, and six handwritten notes, the prosecutor’s bureau said. A connection connected 1 of the notes read, successful substance, “I volition support myself if I americium attacked,” according to the prosecutor’s office.

Mr. Shultz faces aggregate counts of weapons possession charges, according to tribunal records. He is scheduled to look successful tribunal connected Wednesday. His lawyer, Sanford Talkin, declined to remark connected Sunday. It was not instantly wide if Mr. Shultz had been released connected bail, which was acceptable astatine $30,000.

Cage the Elephant, which was formed successful 2006 successful Bowling Green, Ky., is known for its psychedelic sound, chiseled echoes of past stone eras and Mr. Shultz’s warbling, sometimes abrasive voice.

The set released its archetypal medium successful 2008, and has won the Grammy Award for champion stone medium twice, astir precocious successful 2020 for “Social Cues.” It won its archetypal Grammy successful 2015 for its medium “Tell Me I’m Pretty.”

The band’s 2011 album, “Thank You Happy Birthday,” debuted astatine No. 2 connected the Billboard 200, and the album’s pb single, “Shake Me Down,” was No. 1 connected Billboard’s Rock Songs and Alternative Songs charts, according to the Grammy Awards.