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Rush Guitarist Arrested in Florida
01/02/2004 3:07 PM, Reuters
The lead guitarist for the Canadian
rock band Rush pushed a sheriff's deputy down a staircase
during a New Year's Eve scuffle with police at a hotel in
Florida, authorities said on Friday.
Alex Zivojinovich, who uses the stage name Alex Lifeson,
was arrested on six charges including aggravated battery on a
law enforcement officer, resisting arrest and disorderly
intoxication.
Police said they had to use a stun gun to subdue
Zivojinovich, 50, and his son Justin, at a New Year's party at
the Ritz-Carlton hotel in Naples.
Justin Zivojinovich, 33, and his wife, Michelle, 30, were
also arrested. All three are Canadian citizens.
The trouble started shortly before midnight on New Year's
Eve when Justin Zivojinovich got onto the hotel's stage,
interfering with the house band with the intent of singing his
wife a song, according to reports filed by the Collier County
Sheriff's Office.
Father and son struggled with sheriff's deputies who were
called by hotel security to handle the disturbance and the
elder Zivojinovich pushed a deputy down the stairs in a hotel
stairwell as she grappled with him, the reports say.
"He was screaming obscenities and extremely violent," one
report said of the Rush guitarist.
Officers used a Taser stun gun to subdue Alex Zivojinovich
before and after he spat in the face of a deputy, the reports
said.
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