According to an Orange County
Sheriff's Department arrest log dated February 10th 2005 Static-X guitarist Tod Rex Salvador, who goes by the stage name Tripp Eisen, was arrested in California on charges of "crimes against
children." The log lists Salvador's date of birth as June
29, 1965
and gives his height as 5' 10 and weight as 160 lbs.
As reported by the Asbury Park
Press, police in California arrested Salvador on Feb. 10 after finding him
sleeping in a parked car with a girl with whom he had just had sexual
intercourse, said Jon Fleischman of the Orange County Sheriff's Department.
Salvador was charged with committing a lewd
act with a child and was released after posting $100,000 bail, Fleischman said.
On Thursday (Feb. 24), Salvador was apprehended in Orange County, Calif. by two detectives from New Jersey in connection with an incident last
month where he allegedly met a 14-year-old girl from Sayreville, New Jersey through the Internet, drove from Pennsylvania and sexually assaulted her in an Old Bridge shopping center. He was charged
with kidnapping, aggravated sexual assault, luring to entice a minor through
the Internet and endangering the welfare of a child, according to the Asbury
Park Press. If convicted, he faces a maximum of 30 years in prison on the
kidnapping charge alone.
According to authorities, Salvador told the 14-year-old Sayreville girl he was "T-Rex" and
he liked to impersonate the guitarist for the heavy metal band they both liked,
Static-X, reports the Asbury Park Press.
"We've confiscated several
computers to examine them to see if there are other victims," Lt. Kevin Rehmann of the New Jersey State Police said. "We
suspect there may be in several other states."
Static-X is one of the most popular groups
to emerge from what's known as the nu-metal scene of
the late 1990s that spawned bands like Korn
The band released its debut album, Wisconsin
Death Trip, in 1998. The album went gold, selling half a million copies. A
new album is scheduled for release later this year.
A call placed to the band's
publicist at Warner Bros. was not returned. A management company, The Firm,
referred calls to Salvador's Los Angeles-based attorney, Mark Werksmen, who did not return calls.
Police said the Sayreville girl met Salvador on a web site where he used the
screen name "groverygodadat" under the
heading "never married male looking for female." He listed himself as
a Republican and the holder of a doctorate. In the section listing the
acceptable education level of people he wished to meet, he wrote,
"Elementary, High School, Some College, Associate's Degree, Bachelor's Degree,
Master's Degree, Doctorate."
He started exchanging e-mails with
the girl in October, Rehmann said.
Following his arrest Thursday
technically on a fugitive warrant from New Jersey, Salvador was turned over to the Central
Men's Jail in Santa Ana, Calif. He is being held there without bail
while he awaits extradition to New Jersey, authorities said.
