'The Calling' lead singer reports being kidnapped, robbed in Lapeer (Michigan)
By Tammy Stables Battaglia
Detroit Free Press Staff Writer
The lead singer of the rock band “The Calling” told police he was kidnapped, beaten, robbed and dumped in Lapeer early Sunday while he was walking to an area store.
Alex Band was picked up by other band members and taken to an area hospital, according to the entertainment website TMZ.com.
According to Lapeer Police, Band was walking on M-24 — known as West Main Street in Lapeer, near West Street — when he was abducted between 3 and 4 a.m. Sunday. He told investigators two men in a blue minivan pulled up next to him, snatched him off the street, and then beat him up before dumping him elsewhere in the city.
Another band member picked him up and took him to McLaren Lapeer Region medical center, where police were called about 4:30 a.m. Band was treated and released, according to investigators.
The band was in town for the Lapeer Days festival to perform a 10:30 p.m. to midnight show Saturday on the festival’s main stage, according to the festival’s website. The Los Angeles-based band is best known for the song “Wherever You Will Go,” according to the group’s website, www.thecallingband.com.
full: http://www.freep.com/article/20130819/NEWS06/308190075/the-calling-alx-bank-kidnapped-robbed-beaten-lapeer
"Wherever You Will Go" came out when I was 10. Sheesh what's up with all the crazy news with celebs from my childhood, with the death of the lead "Famous Jett Jackson" actor and the alleged kidnapping of an early 2000s rock star?
The AP has a longer article that reports that Band has had substance abuse problems and goes into more detail about the alleged incident.
And Lapeer is about 20 miles east of Flint, and thus the Flint Journal also has a report.