Nick Carter Info from MTV.COM
and this (picture below) is from my paper.
Backstreet
Boy Nick Carter was arrested in Tampa, Florida, early Wednesday morning for
refusing to heed police officers' orders to leave a nightclub following a fight.
Carter, 21, was charged with a misdemeanor count of resisting/opposing a law
enforcement officer without violence and was released on his own recognizance,
according to a police spokesperson. The offense carries a sentence of up to one
year in jail and a $500 fine.
The singer, meanwhile, believes his celebrity status prompted the arrest and
that his name will be cleared, a Jive Records spokesperson said.
Police were summoned to Pop City nightclub earlier in the evening to investigate
a fight, and they returned to the club at 3:20 a.m. to break up a second,
unrelated disturbance. As the officers arrested five patrons responsible for the
ruckus, they observed Carter, a resident of nearby Marathon, involved in a loud
argument with an unidentified woman.
Police said that when they instructed him to quiet down more than 10 times and
he refused, the youngest of the five Backstreet Boys was given an ultimatum to
"leave by the count of three." When time ran out and Carter was still
there, he was handcuffed, placed in a police car and arrested. The unidentified
woman was not.
"I have done nothing wrong," Carter said in a statement. "My
arrest at Pop City nightclub last night was a result of simply moving too slow.
I was attempting to comply with an officer's request to leave a club when I was
detained and given a citation."
A spokesperson at Pop City had no comment.
Carter is scheduled to answer the charges in court March 4.
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Backstreet Boy Nick
Carter, who was arrested at a Tampa, Florida, nightclub last week, says he's
sorry if anyone interpreted his actions that night as disrespectful, but he
maintains that he's guilty of no wrongdoing.
"Basically, I did not do anything wrong, and I know that for a fact, "
the 21-year-old Carter told MTV News on Tuesday (January 8) in a phone
interview during "TRL."
The youngest Backstreet Boy was arrested and charged with resisting a law
enforcement officer early January 2 after he refused to leave the Pop City
nightclub when police instructed him to do so (see "Backstreet
Boy Nick Carter Arrested After Argument In Tampa Bar").
"Sometimes things get blown out of proportion as everybody knows, but if I
disrespected a cop in any way, I apologize. ... People who know me know I'm not
a bad person. I know better."
Carter's first public comments on the matter echoed a written statement issued
by the Backstreet Boys camp the day after his arrest; the press release
maintained Carter's innocence while claiming the arrest was a result of the
singer's celebrity.
Band mate Kevin Richardson was the first Backstreet Boy to call after the
incident, Carter said. "He was like, 'What happened, little bro?' He left a
message because he was up in the mountains. So I called him back and left him a
long message that basically told him what happened."