Take a gander friends, at this arrest record. Mr. Todd R Salvador or “T-Rex” as per his online identity, is also known as Tripp Eisen (pictured above), a guitarist for Static-X. What was he arrested for?
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.
Okay, rule #1: this is the era of Michael Jackson’s Big Trial TM. So, if you are a person of any public prominence whatsoever, and your sexual psychoses lean you in the predatory direction, now is the time to keep that on the down low. And rule #2: even if you can’t keep it in your pants for the sake of obeying statutory rape laws, for Christ’s sake, don’t do it in a car where everyone can see you!
The irony to this story is that the allegations claim Salvador, in meeting his victims online, concoted a story in which he claimed to be a guitarist who impersonates the real Tripp Eisen in a cover band. Seeing that there are quite a few sex crazed sickos out there making up stories about who they are to lure in their victims, he probably (correctly) assumed no one would believe him if he told the truth in the chatrooms he allegedly stalked.