page_title: Eek-A-Mouse
section_title: Legal issues
hierarchical_section_title: Eek-A-Mouse / Legal issues
caption_attribution_description: Reggae artist Eek-A-Mouse performing at Swea reggae festival 2006, Stockholm
context_page_description: Eek-A-Mouse is a Jamaican reggae musician. He is one of the earliest artists to be described as a "singjay".
context_section_description: On 16 August 2008, Eek-a-Mouse was arrested on charges of rape and narcotic possession. He fled the United States and an arrest warrant with a million dollar bond was issued. These charges were filed in Dare County, North Carolina after a performance at the Port O' Call restaurant. He failed to appear at the first hearing and was given a failure to appear charge and his bond was set at $1,375,000.
  On 21 November 2012, Eek-a-Mouse was found in Paraguay without a proper visa and was extradited to the US. He was initially charged with felony rape, felony kidnapping, felony cocaine charges and misdemeanor relating to possession of marijuana. In July 2013 he was released after a plea agreement, having pleaded "no contest" to misdemeanor charges for assault on a female and attempted crime against nature, with his time already spent in prison covering his sentence.
caption: Eek-A-Mouse performing in 2006
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