AC/DC drummer Phill Rudd’s legal troubles aren’t going away anytime soon. He’s been arrested again after a run-in with a man outside the Columbus Coffee shop in Tauranga, New Zealand.
The owner of the coffee shop, Leo Rojas, recalled the incident from Thursday morning, in which Rudd actually turned against his own bodyguard when he tried to step in and diffuse the fight.
Rojas told the Australian AP, “I saw him following a taller, bigger guy and trying to punch the guy,” with the other man involved telling him, “look, I don’t want to break your face.”
The man then pushed Rudd to get him to stop following him. “He literally fell away like a fly,” the owner explained.
When his bodyguard stepped in, “Phil started punching and kicking his own bodyguard, which I found funny,” said Rojas.
Rudd fled the scene but cops caught up to him and he was arrested. Before his arrest, however, he did return to the café to pick up the belongings he dropped.
“He started yelling to the customers ‘never get involved with the mafia’,” Rojas continued, adding the patrons were “all very nervous.”
Earlier this week, Rudd plead not guilty to counts of threatening to kill and possession ofmethamphetamine and cannabis. His larger murder-for-hire charge was dropped after a judge ruled there was “insufficient evidence to justify” it. He was arrested last month after cops raided his home upon receiving a tip.
He's due back in court on Feb. 10 for those charges.