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Former Escape the Fate singer caught by police

Posted by aubin on Thursday, June 19, 2008 at 12:00 PM (EDT)

In a follow up to our recent story, former Escape The Fate singer Ronnie Radke has been caught by police after skipping out on parole and hiding out.

According to a Buzznet report, Radke was arrested yesterday, with Deputy U.S. Marshal Michael Picou saying that police "caught him by surprise" at a residence in Henderson, about 15 miles outside of Las Vegas. .

Picou said that he was not aware of any additional charges Radke might be facing, but he confirmed that the singer was indeed soliciting people for money to "allegedly reform his band," as had been previously reported. The former Epitaph-signed singer was involved in a fight that led to the death of Michael Cook. While another man was charged with the murder, Radke was charged and convicted of battery for his involvement in the situation.

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SydBarrett420 (June 19, 2008)

They were able to track him down after taking a DNA sample from Jason Tates bed sheets.

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k-dubs (June 19, 2008)

Boosh!

SydBarrett420 (June 19, 2008)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=daED2S9TmGM

AIDSRoll'd

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MattRamone (June 19, 2008)

"SOOOO stupid...."

jacknife737 (June 19, 2008)

I’m absolutely convinced that the bassist is a fucking gremlin.

sugarfull (June 19, 2008)

That's not how its done. What you have to do is pretend like you are posting something else, which then tricks the person into getting 'rolled. That's standard procedure.

SydBarrett420 (June 20, 2008)

No I get that point, I just want people to know this is the new AIDSRoll, usually I don't post that part with it but I don't want people to think they are just seeing a lame video. They are in fact witnessing the birth of a new era, the AIDSRoll'd era.

MattRamone (June 19, 2008)

Guess it's hard to go incognito with a fucking NECK TATTOO.

I hope they tazed him for looking like a fucking retard.

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veganboyjosh (June 19, 2008)

he tried to escape the fate of his neck tattoo, but he mest up. now he's bunking with a disturbed guy named bubba. i don't predict it will endwell.

SloaneDaley (June 19, 2008)

+1

MattRamone (June 19, 2008)

Hahahaha so...much...punknews.

chrisss (June 19, 2008)

You've used like the exact same wording and everything.

SalsaShark (June 19, 2008)

that's fucked up.

YasserBossin (June 19, 2008)

a small brown bike may have helpled him "aiden" his escape....fuck i killed it

veganboyjosh (June 19, 2008)

i'll say.

Guy_Incognito (June 19, 2008)

Career Opportunities for guys with Neck Tatoos:

1) Rich and Famous Rock Star
2) Minimum wage jobs
3) Welfare

Talk about deliberately limiting your options. People really don't think this shit through do they?

AlexSxE (June 19, 2008)

when your face has shown up on local tv stations and newspapers, it's probobly not a good idea to try and get money by going out in public for a "fictional" band

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MattRamone (June 19, 2008)

I like that he solicited for money to start a band. Get a real job and post shit in record stores and coffee houses like the rest of us, dude. God I hate children today.

veganboyjosh (June 19, 2008)

how much does it cost to reform a band today?

and get off my lawn.

MattRamone (June 19, 2008)

I guess it's going towards court costs now.

scorpiondeathlock (June 19, 2008)

he shouldve considered reinventing his exit....

i know thats an underoath song...but ive never heard this band and im sure they probably do a cover of it.

baldsteve (June 19, 2008)

I hope the 'additional charges' are for being a douchebag and having a 'volcom' tattoo.

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MattRamone (June 19, 2008)

How do tools like this manage to get laid?

baldsteve (June 19, 2008)

It's the whole Shanghai Switcharoo... they think you're an easy ugly chick and BAM you got em.

JaredK (June 19, 2008)

Well I guess he couldn't escape his fate....hahahahha, I can't believe that wasn't taken yet. I suck.

baseball (June 19, 2008)

It's cool, you can probably still be an assistant to a roadie on Motley Crew's tour with a hideous neck tattoo and criminal record.

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baldsteve (June 19, 2008)

The prison system is drooling to get their hands on this dude.

MattRamone (June 19, 2008)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p4I7Ak1N2z8

Their lyrics are sexist enough.

baldsteve (June 19, 2008)

What's sexy about that?

MattRamone (June 19, 2008)

They just look dirty and disease-ridden. I love smelly crust punks as much as the next person, but good christ those dude look stanky.

Banal242 (June 19, 2008)

"caught him by surprise"

That's what she said.

/I named it surprise.
//No rape jokes, please.

blue_drink (June 19, 2008)

http://www.punknews.org/images/bands/escapethefate.jpg

This just scares me.

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Nameless (June 19, 2008)

They look like all the scene chicks I used to see walking around at my high school.

baldsteve (June 19, 2008)

These guys were ripe for a van-flip.

veganboyjosh (June 19, 2008)

do they go to ridgemont high school?

cos they're for serious about cultivating the pat benatar look.

MattRamone (June 19, 2008)

This is sort of on topic. I'm so sick and tired of this sad bastard music that posits women are the cause of all the world's ills, both explicit and implied. It reeks of little boy insecurity and contempt for the female gender. I'm not saying all break up songs are bad - I'm just saying that crap bands like Fallout Boy, Escape the Fate, and Cute is What We Aim For contribute to this monochrome, oppressive culture of "blame the women, not the fact that I dress like one."

Sorry. This made better sense in my head - I'm hungover as balls.

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baldsteve (June 19, 2008)

Would this:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=OJrSyFpK3iQ
make you feel better?

I can't wait for this shit to disappear...again

MattRamone (June 19, 2008)

How sad is it that the new crop of hair bands actually makes me kind of miss the old ones?

baldsteve (June 19, 2008)

Pretty sad, didn't care then...don't care now.

blue_drink (June 19, 2008)

Dolby Stereo? Shit, that's fuckin' old school.

SloaneDaley (June 19, 2008)

what you are saying is right, break up songs and hating a specific person are valid topics and real feelings BUT the view and role of women in their "art" is completely one dimensional, one sided and wrong.

MattRamone (June 19, 2008)

Where's the "I acted like a prick and my life is fucked up as a result" songs? Alkaline Trio used to be awesome at those before they discovered the book shelf at Hot Topic.

baldsteve (June 19, 2008)

That was uncalled for, and fuck you for knowing there is a book shelf.

veganboyjosh (June 19, 2008)

my best hot topic story evar:

post college, some friends and i want to some mall in southern california. might have been the same mall whose parking lot in which back to the future was filmed...

anyway, we go in hot topic, to see what the hell it's all about now, and not only did they carry cd's, they carried 7 inches. so, of course i dig through them, and they're all epifat bands, not a small number of major labelled bands, etc. anyway, i announce to my friends across the store that "YOU GUYS! THEY HAVE BIG CDS!" and then i start raving about how "these must hold more than 80 minutes of music, cos they're like 8 inches across!" the poor cashier girl came over and politely explained that "they're not cd's. they're records." "you mean, they won't play in my cd player?" "um...no. they're vinyl. you know, like, the 70's?" "i don't understand."

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MattRamone (June 19, 2008)

HAHAHA that story is amazing. I love pranking the Hot Topic customer hotline asking them for if they have the new picture discs for fake bands like Darken My Heart and Bleeding From the Heart. I love getting e-mails from upbeat, professional people using the phrase "Fighting Through With Visions of Blood."

SloaneDaley (June 19, 2008)

makes me sort of sad we don't have Hot Topic in Canada...only sort of.

blue_drink (June 19, 2008)

I've never laughed so hard in a while. Holy shit, that's just amazing!

wonton (June 19, 2008)

lol!

ArianeIsEatingADanish (June 19, 2008)

We don't have Hot Topic here in the UK (I'm pretty sure...) but we have a place called Blue Banana, which is basically the same thing. Every time I walk past, I think of that Nothing Nice To Say strip where they talk about what would happen "if a real punk went into Hot Topic". I'm sufficiently unpunk to have gone there once to (try to) buy trainers, but the shop assistants are the sulkiest bastards ever. So... I bought different shoes.

I don't actually know where I'm going with this.

veganboyjosh (June 19, 2008)

i remember the first time i ever heard about hot topic. we didn't have one in our town, but there was one about an hour away in another town...some friends of mine would rave about it, how they had cool clothes and hair dye and candles and crap. this was in the early 90's.

the first time i saw it in the mall, i remember going in, and getting this sinking feeling.

it was like my friends had been raving about the awesome jewelry that the grocery store is selling. then when i get there and ask about their jewelry department, the manager points me to the little gumball machines at the front of the store.

royalt (June 19, 2008)

blue banana has a way better sound to it

MattRamone (June 19, 2008)

They gotta stack those Nightmare Before Christmas sticker books somewhere.

SloaneDaley (June 19, 2008)

exactly take some fucking responsibility for your fiscal irresponsibility, drinking problems and mother issues children of today!

Banal242 (June 19, 2008)

I'm more fed up with emasculating indie music. The shy, quiet music that's just saying "I'm a non-threatening male. so much more enlightened than those men who prefer chauvinist distortion and sexist melody."

It's music for guys who think being a feminist means taking on feminine roles. It's annoying to me anyway.

MattRamone (June 19, 2008)

I remember when indie meant "Pavement." What the fuck happened to distortion and off-kilter time signatures?

baldsteve (June 19, 2008)

Yeah dude
-archers
-pavement
-polvo
-superchunk
-geezer lake

SloaneDaley (June 19, 2008)

Hum!

MattRamone (June 19, 2008)

Now it's basically bookwormxcore for people who love NPR and are easily frightened by loud sounds and public expression of sexuality.

Banal242 (June 19, 2008)

Beigecore

sugarfull (June 19, 2008)

check out the Tiny Hawks. They've still got it goin' on.

Dante3000 (rich) (June 19, 2008)

Think I got a new tattoo for this dude:
http://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d101/npastula/you-gonna- get-raped.jpg
Good luck.
-Dante

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baldsteve (June 19, 2008)

It's either that or the Earth Crisis Tattoo face guy. He's gotta do something to muddy up his appearance, he's going to have new A-holes everywhere.

MattRamone (June 19, 2008)

I had the great Charles Manson's foot in my a-hole!

baldsteve (June 19, 2008)

So glad you caught that.

MattRamone (June 19, 2008)

Dude, I've been watching that show obsessively since it originally aired.

When the fuck is season three coming out? I needs me some Thunderball!

baldsteve (June 19, 2008)

I've had bootlegs of the entire series since just after it aired.

I'll buy the official releases, but I've got them on dvd now.

MattRamone (June 19, 2008)

I lost all my old tapes.

Dante3000 (rich) (June 19, 2008)

The phrase:"caught him by surprise", makes me picture a scenerio that begins with "Surprise Queer!" and ends with a plunger in Radke's ass.
-Dante

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willowrain (June 19, 2008)

LOL
oh my god, i actually laughed out loud at that.

Honestly, i'm surprised he lasted this long "on the lam" what with a) the ridiculously ostentatious tattoos and b) continuing to solicit funds for a fake band (or something). i'd be fairly content if this was the last piece of news i ever read about this band (ie. Escape the Fate).

branden (June 19, 2008)

There's no Sympathy for the ArrestDead. amirite?

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MattRamone (June 19, 2008)

Hahaha I lol'd

scientistrock (June 19, 2008)

I think it's safe to say that the system works now.

David5345 (June 19, 2008)

When someone linked to his myspace page in the last story about him I noticed he had a pay pal account set up and a messaging saying:

"whats up kids ronnies coming back bold with a new band.. and i need help, all you fans of my music want to hear new stuff please help by donating any amount you possibly can p.s this is for all the true fans and after you donate send a message and let me know so i can speak with you i love all of you beautiful people click the donate button to help me please and i will definitly be speaking with you shortly"

Wow that's pathetic, first of all if they needs money to record new stuff play fucking shows like every other band does, don't just act like a bum begging people.

Funny that he would try to solicate random people on the street for this. I've heard all the excuses "I need money for a ca

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veganboyjosh (June 19, 2008)

http://jokes.m3rlin.org/files/2007/07/000958-hell-why-lie-i-need -a-beer-sign.jpg

damnitsderek (June 20, 2008)

I'm fairly sure he was just trying to get money to help him jump countries from idiot fans of the band.

Mammoth (June 19, 2008)

I hope that he gets snoodled in jail, that will give him something to cry about.

branden (June 19, 2008)

"Hey, don't forget to get your Escape the Fate t-shirt, y'know, all proceeds go to get their lead singer out of jail."

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MPC (June 19, 2008)

+1 million punk points for the excellent Dead Milkmen reference

Someone (June 19, 2008)

I'm sporting my Big Lizard shirt right now...

Gwarmageddon (June 19, 2008)

Ha ha ha. Best response ever. I must now listen to Beelzebubba.

conebone69 (June 19, 2008)

Give us a call if you need a drummer and another singer, but that's pretty mest up

The least you could've done is just stab the copper and claim self defense

- Alex Pappas and Tony Lovato

Dudley_Shale (June 19, 2008)

False advertising.

danpib08 (June 19, 2008)

They should have sent Tom Gabel the Bounty Hunter out to beat his ass.

letthebeatdrop (June 19, 2008)

whats battery?

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royalt (June 19, 2008)

it's that thing that people used to buy in the '90s for their portable CD players

royalt (June 19, 2008)

oh, and one of Metallica's only good songs

Mammoth (June 19, 2008)

I should make a profit off of this band. I'll make bootleg shirts that say "escape the fat"

thomas7155 (June 19, 2008)

Lol, I guess he couldn't escape his fate.

Lesterfangs (June 20, 2008)

Skipping Parole makes me want to Blow a Load

FederaliBOB (June 26, 2008)

he'll be at home at the CCDC ... the ass raping isn't anything new.

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