AC/DC’s drummer Phil Rudd put behind bars

Sydney: AC/DC drummer Phil Rudd was put behind bars on Sunday in New Zealand, just days after he was sentenced to home detention for threatening to kill a man who used to work for him.

The 61-year-old Australian-born drummer was arrested at his home on New Zealand’s North Island on Sunday, though police refused to comment on the nature of the arrest, NZ Herald said.

Rudd’s lawyer, Craig Tuck, confirmed in an email on Sunday that Rudd had been arrested and that he was due to appear in court on Monday for a bail application. Tuck said he had just spent an hour with Rudd at the local police station, where he was being held until his court appearance. Tuck declined to say why his client had been arrested or to comment further.

Rudd was sentenced to eight months of home confinement on July 9 after pleading guilty to threatening to kill a former employee and possession of methamphetamine and marijuana.

Rudd acknowledged in a court summary of facts that he’d offered cash, vehicles and a house to an associate after asking him to have the victim “taken out.” He also acknowledged that he’d directly said to the victim he was going to kill him. Prosecutors charged Rudd with murder-for-hire, but later dropped that charge, citing lack of evidence. Judge Thomas Ingram warned Rudd last week that he would go to prison if he breached the terms of his home detention.