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David Crosby arrested on marijuana, gun charges
By DONNA DE LA CRUZ
Associated Press Writer
March 6, 2004, 2:34 PM EST
NEW YORK -- Rock musician David Crosby, just hours after earning a standing ovation at a New Jersey concert, was arrested early Saturday on marijuana and gun possession charges, police said.
Crosby, 62, was arrested at 1 a.m. at the DoubleTree Suites Hotel in midtown Manhattan with an undisclosed amount of marijuana, a .45-caliber handgun and a knife in his possession, police said.
The Rock and Roll Hall of Famer was arrested shortly after performing Friday night with his band, CPR, at a Wayne, N.J., college. One night earlier, they had played at the B.B. King Blues Club in Manhattan.
The veteran rocker had checked out of the hotel after the Manhattan show, but left behind a piece of luggage, police said. A hotel worker found the luggage Friday and went through it looking for identification and discovered the marijuana, gun and knives and called authorities, police said.
Crosby later called the hotel to say he would be returning to pick up the luggage, and was greeted by police when he came back, investigators said.
Crosby, dressed in black jeans and a T-shirt, was brought to the courtroom shortly before 1 p.m. for his initial appearance. He was charged with criminal possession of a weapon in the third degree, a felony.
He was also charged with illegal possession of a hunting knife and illegal possession of ammunition _ he had three magazines with a total of 26 rounds _ and illegal possession of about one ounce of marijuana, which was found in a wooden box. He faces up to seven years on the gun charge if convicted.
He was released on $3,500 bail and managed to elude reporters waiting outside the Criminal Courts Building in lower Manhattan. Crosby's attorney, David Parker, could not be reached for comment. Crosby's next court date is May 19.
Crosby made a celebrated comeback in the mid-1980s after beating a 20-year drug addiction, detoxing during a stint in a Texas prison for drug possession. He was paroled in August 1986.
In the years prior, Crosby was arrested several times on drug, weapon and other charges.
Crosby is a founding member of both Crosby, Stills and Nash and Young and The Byrds. He is also a two-time inductee to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
CPR _ which features Crosby's son, keyboardist James Raymond, and guitarist Jeff Pevar _ has released three acclaimed albums entitled "CPR," "CPR Live at the Wilthern" and "Just Live Gravity."
Calls to Crosby's management company were not immediately returned.
Crosby was to perform in Glenside, Pa., Saturday night. A woman who answered the telephone at the theater there said the concert was still on.
this is an interview on gun control from his website
BP: In your book you made it clear that you believe in the right of one to bear arms, to protect your property by the use of firearms. Does that mean that you do not believe in gun control? I’m specifically talking about Saturday night specials, assault……
DC: No, I don’t think there is any need for anybody to carry a gun in public. I don’t think there’s any need for anybody to own automatic weapons, I don’t think that – that you are a responsible human being if you leave guns around where kids can get to them. And, I think we have a problem in this Country with the culture surrounding violence. Our culture applauds violence, it wallows in violence, and that’s not good in a country with this many guns around. ‘Cause kids get given the wrong message. They think its all ketchup and the guy gets up again. They know you can shoot the lights out, they don’t realize you can’t shoot the lights back on. So, there’s a real problem there.
I don’t think that the answer is, get rid of all the guns because that’s just nonsense. That’s like saying, okay, we’ll pass a law that gravity doesn’t work anymore and rocks will fly. There are guns in 60 or 70% of the households in this country and nobody is gonna give ‘em up. They’ll tell you, Okay, you do it first. None of them are gonna give those guns up, so don’t be, you know, an ostrich with your head stuck in the sand and say we’ve got to get rid of all the guns – that’s not gonna happen – ever – it’s not going to happen.
Therefore, you’ve got to work on people. The gun really is just a tool, it’s just like a power drill, it magnifies your effort and it’ll magnify your mistake just as fast as it will magnify the effort, but its really an inert piece of metal, it has no innate goodness or badness to it. The problem is in the operator. And, I think if we can’t get rid of the guns and it’s patently obvious that we can’t, that you then have to work on educating the operator.
You have to make it clear to people what the reality is, you know, that this is a disastrously efficient little gizmo and, yes, it will punch holes in the piece of paper down 40 yards away, but it will also scatter your brains all over the wall… and that’s not something that you can do lightly. I think at the same time that you educate people how to use a gun, you have to educate them about the sanctity of life, and I don’t see that goin’ on.
David Crosby arrested on marijuana, gun charges
By DONNA DE LA CRUZ
Associated Press Writer
March 6, 2004, 2:34 PM EST
NEW YORK -- Rock musician David Crosby, just hours after earning a standing ovation at a New Jersey concert, was arrested early Saturday on marijuana and gun possession charges, police said.
Crosby, 62, was arrested at 1 a.m. at the DoubleTree Suites Hotel in midtown Manhattan with an undisclosed amount of marijuana, a .45-caliber handgun and a knife in his possession, police said.
The Rock and Roll Hall of Famer was arrested shortly after performing Friday night with his band, CPR, at a Wayne, N.J., college. One night earlier, they had played at the B.B. King Blues Club in Manhattan.
The veteran rocker had checked out of the hotel after the Manhattan show, but left behind a piece of luggage, police said. A hotel worker found the luggage Friday and went through it looking for identification and discovered the marijuana, gun and knives and called authorities, police said.
Crosby later called the hotel to say he would be returning to pick up the luggage, and was greeted by police when he came back, investigators said.
Crosby, dressed in black jeans and a T-shirt, was brought to the courtroom shortly before 1 p.m. for his initial appearance. He was charged with criminal possession of a weapon in the third degree, a felony.
He was also charged with illegal possession of a hunting knife and illegal possession of ammunition _ he had three magazines with a total of 26 rounds _ and illegal possession of about one ounce of marijuana, which was found in a wooden box. He faces up to seven years on the gun charge if convicted.
He was released on $3,500 bail and managed to elude reporters waiting outside the Criminal Courts Building in lower Manhattan. Crosby's attorney, David Parker, could not be reached for comment. Crosby's next court date is May 19.
Crosby made a celebrated comeback in the mid-1980s after beating a 20-year drug addiction, detoxing during a stint in a Texas prison for drug possession. He was paroled in August 1986.
In the years prior, Crosby was arrested several times on drug, weapon and other charges.
Crosby is a founding member of both Crosby, Stills and Nash and Young and The Byrds. He is also a two-time inductee to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
CPR _ which features Crosby's son, keyboardist James Raymond, and guitarist Jeff Pevar _ has released three acclaimed albums entitled "CPR," "CPR Live at the Wilthern" and "Just Live Gravity."
Calls to Crosby's management company were not immediately returned.
Crosby was to perform in Glenside, Pa., Saturday night. A woman who answered the telephone at the theater there said the concert was still on.
this is an interview on gun control from his website
BP: In your book you made it clear that you believe in the right of one to bear arms, to protect your property by the use of firearms. Does that mean that you do not believe in gun control? I’m specifically talking about Saturday night specials, assault……
DC: No, I don’t think there is any need for anybody to carry a gun in public. I don’t think there’s any need for anybody to own automatic weapons, I don’t think that – that you are a responsible human being if you leave guns around where kids can get to them. And, I think we have a problem in this Country with the culture surrounding violence. Our culture applauds violence, it wallows in violence, and that’s not good in a country with this many guns around. ‘Cause kids get given the wrong message. They think its all ketchup and the guy gets up again. They know you can shoot the lights out, they don’t realize you can’t shoot the lights back on. So, there’s a real problem there.
I don’t think that the answer is, get rid of all the guns because that’s just nonsense. That’s like saying, okay, we’ll pass a law that gravity doesn’t work anymore and rocks will fly. There are guns in 60 or 70% of the households in this country and nobody is gonna give ‘em up. They’ll tell you, Okay, you do it first. None of them are gonna give those guns up, so don’t be, you know, an ostrich with your head stuck in the sand and say we’ve got to get rid of all the guns – that’s not gonna happen – ever – it’s not going to happen.
Therefore, you’ve got to work on people. The gun really is just a tool, it’s just like a power drill, it magnifies your effort and it’ll magnify your mistake just as fast as it will magnify the effort, but its really an inert piece of metal, it has no innate goodness or badness to it. The problem is in the operator. And, I think if we can’t get rid of the guns and it’s patently obvious that we can’t, that you then have to work on educating the operator.
You have to make it clear to people what the reality is, you know, that this is a disastrously efficient little gizmo and, yes, it will punch holes in the piece of paper down 40 yards away, but it will also scatter your brains all over the wall… and that’s not something that you can do lightly. I think at the same time that you educate people how to use a gun, you have to educate them about the sanctity of life, and I don’t see that goin’ on.
