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Static-X Guitarist Arrested For Sex With A Minor
02/28/2005 3:00 PM, Yahoo! Music
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Static-X guitarist Tripp Eisen was arrested on Thursday (February 24) in Orange County, California, for allegedly meeting and sexually assaulting a 14-year-old girl last month in New Jersey, according to the Asbury Park Press. The arrest follows a similar incident earlier this month in California, where Eisen was charged with "crimes against children," after police found him sleeping in a parked car with another 14-year-old girl, with whom the musician had allegedly just had sex.
The 39-year-old Eisen, whose real name is Tod Rex Salvador, allegedly met a 14-year-old girl from Sayreville, New Jersey on the Internet, drove from Pennsylvania on January 7 to meet her, and sexually assaulted her in a shopping center in Old Bridge, New Jersey. The girl's mother found out about the incident and alerted police.
Eisen was charged with kidnapping, aggravated sexual assault, luring to entice a minor through the Internet and endangering the welfare of a child. If convicted, he faces a maximum of 30 years in prison on the kidnapping charge alone.
According to the Asbury Park Press, Eisen told the Sayreville girl that his name was "T-Rex" and that he liked to "impersonate" Tripp Eisen.
The guitarist is currently being held without bail at the Central Men's Jail in Santa Ana, California and awaiting extradition to New Jersey.
Meanwhile, Eisen was also arrested on February 10 by Orange County police after he was found sleeping in a parked car with a different 14-year-old, with whom he had allegedly just had sex. Eisen was charged with committing a lewd act with a child and released after posting $100,000 bail, according to Jon Fleischman of the Orange County Sheriff's Department.
The New Jersey State Police are investigating whether Eisen may have preyed upon other victims in several different states.
Static-X has been working on a new album, with tentative plans to release it this summer. There has been no official comment on Eisen's case from the band, its label, or its management.
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