Phil Rudd isn't the first musician to find himself in trouble with the law
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Crime: Assaulted Patti Smith's brother at a concert in New York
Sentence: Two months - made bail and died that night
Crime: Tax evasion
Sentence: Three months
Crime: Kicked then-wife Pamela Anderson
Sentence: Four months
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Crime: Stole US$30,000 worth of tyres
Sentence: Four months
Crime: Filmed taking cocaine on camera
Sentence: Six months
Crime: Sold vials of cocaine to an undercover cop as a teenager
Sentence: Six months
Crime: Sexual assault
Sentence: Nine months of a four-and-a-half year maximum sentence
Crime: Drug possession
Sentence: Ten months
Crime: Possessing heroin and cocaine
Sentence: Nine months
Crime: Perjury and conspiracy for lying to a grand jury about her friends involvement in a 2001 shooting outside a radio station
Sentence: One year and one day
Crime: Holding a 26 year old hostage for six days and assaulting a music executive in Hollywood
Sentence: Two years
Crime: Armed robbery as a teenager
Sentence: Three years
Crime: Theft as a teenager and later was charged for assaulting a police officer and carrying an unlicensed gun
Sentence: Three years for the first; served two years of a six year sentence for the latter
Crime: Possessing child pornography, attempted rape and sex with a minor
Sentence: 16 years jail
Crime: Murder of actress Lana Clarkson
Sentence: Life: he will be 88 before he is eligible for parole
- nzherald.co.nz
The Australian site cited a 'heightened threat level' as the issue.