Former Lynyrd Skynyrd drummer and US Rock N Roll Hall Of Fame inductee Artimus Pyle was jailed in Florida this week over allegations he failed to properly register as a sex offender - though we hear he is now free having posted $10,000 bail.
In 1993 Pyle pleaded guilty to charges of attempted sexual battery of two girls aged 4 and 8. He was given eight years probation and added to the Florida Department of Law Enforcement's Sexual Offender database. Pyle is meant to make sure that his contact information on that database is up to date, but when he recently applied for a drivers licence it was discovered that he had not lived at the address stored on the database for some years. Moreover he had moved states and had failed to register himself on the other state's Sexual Offender database, as he is required to do.
Pyle claims that the confusion over his address has come about because he moves around a lot, but that he always fully intended to return to the Florida address he was registered at.