Show Punk musician arrested for soap Roy Los Angeles Tunes Times Was Vas a legendary punk rocker arrested for possession of soap That's the question surrounding last weeks week's jailing of Germs Genes drummer Don Bolles after a routine traffic stop in Newport Beach c Calif Bolles 50 whose real name is Jimmy Michael Giorsetti said in an interview v that he and his girlfriend were driving to toan toan an ah Alcoholics Anonymous meet meeting ng Wednesday j ij ti ti t 0 1 oj LP fi L evening when police pulled over his 1968 Dodge van for a broken tail taillight light Inside the vehicle police found a toiletry kit containing denture glue razors and a bottle of Dr Bronner's Magic Soap When a field test of the alleged liquid peppermint soap indicated it was a rape date-rape drug Bolles was arrested for felony narcotics possession said Evan Sailor of the Newport Beach Police Soap Continued on page 2 r sd t Soap charges Continued from page 1 I Department Bolles insisted the soap was only soap Ive been using Dr Bronner's for 35 years he said Tuesday Officials at Dr Bronner's rushed to Bolles' Bolles defense hiring attorney Bruce Margolin who specializes in marijuana cases to represent the musician The soap Germs manufacturer alliance followed an Internet plea to help bail Bolles BoIles out of jail A musician from one of his other bands Fancy Space People set up a Pay Pal account to raise the 2500 bond Bolles who lives in Los Angeles was released Sunday The Newport Beach Jail was the nicest one Ive I've ever been in he said But Bolles spent just one night there before being moved to two county jails he described as terri terrifying The Germs Genres a trailblazing punk band formed in Los Angeles in the late are credited with influencing generations of musicians Bolles took his name from Arizona Republic journalist Don Bolles who was killed in 1976 by a car bomb after writing stories about organized crime The band broke up in 1980 after their year 24 old singer Darby Crash died The Germs reunited in 2005 As word of the punk rockers rocker's arrest spread online Dr Bronner's switchboard lighted up with calls After speaking with Bolles on Monday company president David Bronner decided to intervene The Escondido Cali f.- f. based soap-maker soap is used to run-ins run with the law Because Dr Bronner's ingredient list includes hemp oil police field tests of the soap occasionally indicate THC the active i ingredient in marijuana 1 Bronner said But the idea of finding in a Dr Bronner's product is beyond belief Bronner said The field test must have been flawed or tampered with Is it possible Bolles was using the soap bottle to carry the drug No way Bronner said With a definitive test of the bottles bottle's contents coming soon from the Orange County Crime Lab it would be ridiculous for Bolles to be lying Bronner said Bolles likewise dismissed the idea that he would carry A date rape drug is the last thing I need he said If anything I need needa a way to keep the girls off of me They make my my girlfriend mad |