Los Angeles — No it is not Ground Hog Day, but yes, Wes Scantlin of the rock band Puddle Of Mudd has made headlines for yet another arrest.

The latest escalated to the point that a Los Angeles area S.W.A.T. team was called in to arrest the public menace.

Scantlin has a long history of arrests, that have happened over the better part of the last 2 decades.

Below is an article shared by the popular online Entertainment outlet TMZ.

Puddle of Mudd’s Wes Scantlin ARRESTED AFTER STANDOFF W/ SWAT

Puddle of Mudd’s Wes Scantlin was arrested after a traffic stop turned into a tense standoff … with cops eventually resorting to using pepper spray to get him out of his car … this according to law enforcement.

Burbank PD tells TMZ Wesley was arrested Wednesday … after they pulled over his black Hummer H2 in Burbank for a traffic violation and asked him for his ID. Officers say they found out Scantlin had an active warrant from a previous case for allegedly having a weapon at an airport.

We’re told when officers asked Wesley to get out of the car, he refused … and after several attempts, a crisis negotiator came to negotiate, but cops say he still wouldn’t budge.

Our sources tell us spray was then deployed, but even that didn’t do the trick, forcing SWAT to come in at around 4:00 AM and break the car window to shoot non-lethal pepper balls to finally get him to surrender and exit the car.

We’re told he was taken to the hospital to get his eyes flushed from the pepper balls, but in the end, he was ok.

Wes was then booked at the jail for the outstanding warrant and the new charge of resisting arrest. We’re told he was then cited and released with a court date set for August 20.

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