RIKKI ROCKETT Cancels Tomorrow Night's Gig With Fiance

March 28, 2008

TMZ.com reports that POISON drummer Rikki Rockett had to bail on a gig tomorrow night at his local coffee shop because of the Mississippi warrant that's out for his arrest on sexual assault charges.

He and his fiance Melanie Martel, a singer, were scheduled to play at Rattlesnake Slim's, an intimate coffeehouse/music venue in Newhall, Calif., not far from where Rikki and Melanie live. But after the story about his warrant broke last night, Rikki called Slim's today and told them they wouldn't be able to make it "due to what's going on" and the crush of media that would follow.

For more information on Melanie Martel, visit her MySpace page.

According to The Associated Press, a rape charge filed against Rikki Rockett has been turned over to the district attorney's office for possible grand jury consideration, the Neshoba County Sheriff's Department says.

Rockett was arrested this week in Los Angeles on a warrant stemming from the forceable rape complaint, Neshoba sheriff's investigator Ralph Sciple said Friday.

He said the alleged rape occurred Sept. 23, 2007, at the Silver Star Casino in Philadelphia, Miss. The casino-hotel complex about an hour northeast of Jackson is owned by the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians.

"The subject, Rikki Rockett, forcibly had sex with an adult in one of the hotel rooms," according to the complaint filed with the sheriff's office.

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