Drummer Don Bolles of legendary L.A. ‘80s punk band The Germs landed in jail last week after a traffic stop in Newport Beach for possession of…soap.
Bolles, 50, says he and his girlfriend were driving to an AA meeting when cops pulled over his 1968 Dodge van for a broken taillight.
Police found a toiletry kit containing denture glue, razors and a bottle of Dr. Bronner's Magic Soap inside the car. After a field test of the alleged liquid peppermint soap indicated it was GHB, a date-rape drug, Bolles was arrested on suspicion of felony narcotics possession.
"I've been using Dr. Bronner's for 35 years," Bolles says.
Dr. Bronner's rushed to his defense, hiring attorney Bruce Margolin, who specializes in marijuana cases, to rep the drummer.
The very idea of finding GHB in a Dr. Bronner's product is "beyond belief," Bronner himself said. "The field test must have been flawed or tampered with."
A musician from one of his other bands, Fancy Space People, set up a PayPal account to raise his $2,500 bond.
Bolles, a onetime heroin addict who is scheduled to play a London concert with the Germs in August, likewise dismissed the idea that he would carry GHB. "A date-rape drug is the last thing I need," he said. "If anything, I need a way to keep the girls off of me. They make my girlfriend mad."
And that, my friends, is EXACTLLY what a rock star should be saying in a case like this.
LATimes.com: Germs singer arrested for possession of soap
