Rikki Rockett (picture left, via), original name Richard Allan Ream, is the drummer for 80s' energetic Pennsylvania metal band Poison. The 46-year-old was arrested on a rape warrant issued out of Mississippi's Neshoba County when he arrived at LAX after getting off a flight from New Zealand on Monday, March 24, according to Daily News (via). Information about the warrant and specific charges was not immediately available. And now where Rockett is exactly right now is unknown.
Rikki Rockett, 46, was arrested Monday at the airport and booked into the Los Angeles County Jail, according to Los Angeles police and the Los Angeles County Sheriff Department's Inmate Information Web site. He was held on a strong-arm rape warrant stemming from Neshoba County, Mississippi, and appears to have been released from L.A. County custody, the Sheriff's Web site shows. His status today could not be confirmed.
Details about the warrant were not immediately available. Messages left with state police in Mississippi went unanswered.
According to the online Web site Wikipedia, Rockett was born Richard Allan Ream in Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania. He has worked as a hairdresser, lifeguard, dishwasher, Emergency Medical Technician and a suit salesman. He rose to prominence in the 1980s when he co-founded the band Poison with vocalist Bret Michaels.
