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Oliveri charged over SWAT stand-off
By CMU Editorial | Published on Monday 15 August 2011
Former Queens Of The Stone Age bassist Nick Oliveri has been charged following his previously reported armed stand-off with a police SWAT team at his LA home last month.
Police officers swooped on the LA home of Oliveri, who now fronts his own band Mondo Generator, after reports of a domestic incident. The rocker initially refused to allow them into the property and, with fears he had a high powered rifle to hand, police chiefs called in a SWAT team resulting in a two hour siege.
Oliveri eventually gave himself up. He was arrested on charges of domestic violence and released on $100,000 bail. But now, according to TMZ, those domestic violence charges have been dropped and replaced with four firearms and drugs charges, plus one for resisting arrest. If convicted, he faces up to fifteen years in prison.
