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Titolo: questa poi. Lifeson arrestato!

http://www.naplesnews.com/npdn/news/article/0,2071,NPDN_14940_2547066,00.html
The lead guitarist for a renowned rock band faces criminal charges after
a scuffle with Collier County sheriff's deputies at The Ritz-Carlton,
Naples, on New Year's Eve.
Alex Zivojinovich, a founding member of Rush, known on stage as Alex
Lifeson, was arrested after what deputies describe as a drunken, violent
outbreak at the posh hotel.
Zivojinovich, 50, faces six charges that include aggravated battery on a
law enforcement officer, resisting an officer with violence, and
disorderly intoxication. Also arrested in the brouhaha were his
33-year-old son Justin Zivojinovich and his wife, Michelle, 30.
Deputies say they had to use a stun gun on Alex Zivojinovich, 8787 Bay
Colony Drive, Apt. 804 in Naples, and his son during the fracas. And in
their reports they accuse Alex Zivojinovich of pushing a female deputy
down a hotel stairwell during the struggle, and of spitting blood on a
deputy's face.
But his son Justin, who was visiting his father on vacation from Canada,
gave a very different account of what happened during an interview
Thursday night.
He said his father, who was still in the Collier County jail as of late
Thursday, had his nose broken by deputies, and as he was spitting out
the blood from the injuries, deputies assaulted him again. He also said
his father did not push the female deputy down the stairs as stated in
arrest reports.
Instead, Justin Zivojinovich said, the deputy tumbled down the stairs as
she pushed him down the stairwell.
He said the trouble began after he got up on the stage where the house
band was performing at the hotel.
"I was singing Happy New Year's, that's all I was doing, singing to the
whole crowd. That's all I said, 'Happy New Year,'" Justin Zivojinovich
said. "Everyone was enjoying themselves. That's when someone apparently
started yelling for one of the security guards. There was no violence on
our part.
"I was ready to leave. I was asked to leave, and I said, 'OK, I'm going
to go. I'll grab my wife and be out of there.' They didn't want that.
They didn't want me to leave on a high note. They felt they would lose.
They decided to aggravate me. They stunned me, as well as my father,
with a stun gun."
Justin Zivojinovich said they have hired Naples defense lawyer Jerry
Berry to represent them. Rush has scheduled a global 30th anniversary
tour in 2004, and Justin said he did not know whether this arrest might
affect those plans.
"If we don't get off of these charges, we're going to start seeking
lawsuits against a lot of people," Justin Zivojinovich said.
Arrest reports paint a picture of an intoxicated, unruly, and violent
father and son who refused to comply with deputies' orders. The reports
said that trouble began after Justin Zivojinovich got up on the band's
stage after being warned not to.
The reports state that the 33-year-old Zivojinovich became verbally
abusive after being asked to leave the stage. "When approached by hotel
Security Supervisor Frank Barner, he said "(Expletive) off, I'm going to
sing a song for my wife," according to the arrest report.
The reports said that is when his 50-year-old father came to the defense
of his son and became verbally abusive with Barner.
Barner then called sheriff's deputies, and stated that he wanted both
men removed from the property and issued trespass warnings.
Collier Sheriff's Deputy Christopher Knott's said in his report that he
told Justin Zivojinovich he would be escorting him to the property line
and issuing him a trespass warning prohibiting him from returning to
Ritz-Carlton property.
"Justin stated that was fine. When Justin and I walked back into the
ballroom to retrieve his property, he threw his hat and started
screaming obscenities," Knott's report states. "A second male identified
as Justin's father, Alex Zivojinovich, approached us and stated that his
son wasn't going anywhere."
Knott alleges that he told Alex Zivojinovich that if he didn't move away
from them, that he would be arrested for obstruction of justice. "Alex
stated, "Take me to jail, I don't care, it's (expletive) New Year's
Eve,'"
Knott's report states.
Knott contends that Alex Zivojinovich then put his hands on his son's
chest and began pushing him in the opposite direction of the way the
deputy was escorting him.
"Justin began to struggle and resist. I placed Justin in an arm bar and
began escorting him away with the assistance of Cpl. Amy Stanford to
avoid any further disturbance. Cpl. Scott Russell was trying to keep
Alex and several other members in their party away from us, with little
success. As I looked over my right shoulder, I could see Cpl. Russell
struggling with several people to include Alex and Justin's wife,
Michelle."
Knott's report states that as deputies entered the service stairwell,
Justin Zivojinovich began to struggle and swing his right elbow at
Stanford's face.
He states that as he escorted Justin Zivojinovich to the ground he felt
Alex Zivojinovich pushing into him.
"As the situation began to escalate with several people filling the
stairwell, I removed my Taser (stun gun) and warned Alex to keep away. I
turned to assist in handcuffing Justin and he began to thrash his body.
I warned deputies of my intention to tase the wildly combative Justin."
Knott's report states that after the stun gun was then used on Justin,
Alex was screaming obscenities and being extremely violent. Knott says
Alex Zivojinovich ripped the police radio off of his uniform, "depriving
me of calling for backup units."
Knott states that when Corporal Stanford attempted to pull Alex
Zivojinovich away from him, the rock star who arrest reports say stands
6 feet tall and weighs 230 pounds grabbed her and shoved her down the
steps, forcing her to fall on her back. Knott said that Stanford
suffered injuries that required medical attention.
Alex Zivojinovich won Best Rock Talent in 1983 in the category "Guitar
for the Practicing Musician." He was inducted into the Guitar for the
Practicing Musician Hall of Fame in May of 1991. His Yugoslavian parents
immigrated to Canada. His only formal training was during Rush's early
days on the Toronto club circuit.
The Rolling Stone magazine Web site said Rush "carved itself a place in
the prog-rock elite through three decades of popular releases."
"The band saw success throughout the '80s on the consistent release of
albums, a rigorous touring schedule and a dedicated fan base," the Web
site said.
Rush had a string of popular hits in the 1980s, such as the song "Tom
Sawyer," from The Moving Pictures album of 1981. Other hits included
"Limelight" and "Spirit of the Radio."

filmati dopo l'arresto: 
http://www.nbc-2.com/newsvideoplayer.asp?videonum=5605648&dw=http://www.nbc-2.com/news/yahoosum.shtml
 
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