Marty Crandall, the bassist / keyboardist / guitarist of The Shins, was arrested on Friday night on charges of domestic abuse.
His girlfriend / possible ex-girlfriend, Elyse Sewell, was also arrested with Martin Crandall in Sacramento, although she has been freed on bail.
Crandall remains in jail as of this posting. Here’s what Elyse Sewell - a former America’s Next Top Model contestant - says happened:
On the drive home from Albuquerque to Portland, my ex-boyfriend got s-itfaced and roughed me up in a Sacramento hotel. I escaped from the room through a blitzkrieg of violence and talked to hotel security, who called the fuzz.
Because he had a bite mark, inflicted in self-defense, on his arm, Marty told the police to PRESS CHARGES OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE AGAINST ME.
Now I am a felon. Jailors. America’s Next Top Model fans, all. As the warden took pics of my knuckles for evidence (!!!! evidence!), he quipped, “So there goes that hand modeling job, huh? What’s Tyra going to say about this?”
And here is how I was summoned from the cell for a strip-search, complete with a thorough plumbing of the boodissy: “Hey, Supermodel! Git over here!”
Well… okay then. While this is just one side of the story, we hope all parties resolve this amicably and The Shins continue making good music.
