According to SunLive, AC/DC drummer Phil Rudd was placed in handcuffs and put into the back of a police car early Thursday morning (December 4) following an incident in Gate Pa, New Zealand. "He was out and bloody dancing around and carrying on and was arrested and led back to the cop car and driven away," a witness told the Bay Of Plenty Times. The SunLive web site has posted photos of Rudd being taken away by police and driven to Tauranga Police Station. Tauranga Police Senior Sergeant Owen O'Brien refused to say if Rudd had been arrested or if he was in their custody but told SunLive that police were investigating the incident. "No other information will be released until the investigation is complete," he said. "The investigation is ongoing." Rudd's lawyer Paul Mabey was not aware of details of the incident and said another lawyer was at the police station looking into the matter. No charges have been laid against Rudd in connection with the latest incident. As previously reported, Rudd did not show up in Tauranga District Court in New Zealand on Tuesday morning (December 2) for his second hearing on charges of threatening to kill and possession of methamphetamine and cannabis. According to The New Zealand Herald, a "not guilty" plea to the charges was entered by his lawyer. Judge Tom Ingram ruled that Rudd's case would likely be heard at a "judge-alone" trial next year, meaning that no jury will be present. A further case review for Rudd will be held at the same court on February 10. Rudd was arrested in early November on charges of attempting to arrange a murder, threatening to kill and possession of meth and marijuana. The murder-for-hire charge was dropped quickly but Rudd still faces several years in prison if convicted of the others. Rudd's problems affected the recording of the new AC/DC album, "Rock Or Bust", as guitarist Angus Young explained. "Getting him there to do the album was quite tough, and his behavior's been a bit strange, you know," he told The Pulse Of Radio. "'Cause when we were doing the album, one minute he was coming, next minute he wasn't coming, so it took quite a while to get him to the studio. I mean, when he got there, he did his great job, but it's not the Phil that we've known all over the years, you know."
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