News - 21/04/2015

AC/DC's PHIL RUDD Pleads Guilty to Drug Possession And Threatening To Kill Charges

AC/DC's PHIL RUDD Pleads Guilty to Drug Possession And Threatening To Kill Charges

While hard rock veterans AC/DC just played the two weekends of Coachella with replacement drummer Chris Slade, Phil Rudd faced a New Zealand court on Tuesday morning (April 21) and entered a guilty plea to charges of methamphetamine and cannabis possession and for threatening to kill (a second threatening to kill charge was dropped).

According to The New Zealand Herald, Rudd remained silent in court and spoke only when asked to enter his plea. He refused to answer questions as he left the courthouse. Judge Robert Wolffe remanded Rudd on bail, with his existing bail conditions; the sentence is due on June 26.

Court documents explain that police found 0.478 grams of methamphetamine and 91 grams of marijuana during a November 6, 2014 raid on Rudd's home, which was conducted after he was accused of threatening to kill an associate and his daughter during a phone call in September. New Zealand prosecutors claim that on the morning on September 26, 2014, Rudd made two phone calls. During the first call he allegedly "spoke about what he wanted done" to an unnamed man who had been working for him for three years. The second call was allegedly to the unnamed man himself, and it was during this call that prosecution claims Rudd "threatened to kill him and his daughter".

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