{"id":974255,"date":"2020-01-04T09:22:53","date_gmt":"2020-01-04T16:22:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=933634"},"modified":"2020-01-04T09:22:53","modified_gmt":"2020-01-04T16:22:53","slug":"rod-stewart-faces-battery-count-after-scuffle-with-security-guard-on-new-years-eve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/music-news\/rod-stewart-faces-battery-count-after-scuffle-with-security-guard-on-new-years-eve\/","title":{"rendered":"Rod Stewart Faces Battery Count After Scuffle With Security Guard on New Year\u2019s Eve"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Rod Stewart<\/a> will face a misdemeanor count of simple battery after allegedly punching a security guard during a New Year\u2019s Eve party at a Florida resort.<\/span><\/p>\n

While not arrested, both the 74-year-old singer and his eldest son Sean Stewart were ordered to appear at the Palm Beach County Criminal Justice Complex on February 5th following the New Year\u2019s Eve incident, which occurred at Palm Beach, Florida\u2019s the Breakers.<\/span><\/p>\n

According to a police report obtained by People<\/em><\/a>, Stewart and his group attempted to enter their children into a kids\u2019 area on the Breakers\u2019 premise but were denied access by security guard Jessie Dixon.<\/span><\/p>\n

Rod Stewart then \u201cbegan to get loud and cause a scene, and refused to follow [Dixon\u2019s] instructions to leave,\u201d the police report states, with Sean Stewart allegedly going \u201cabout nose to nose\u201d with the guard.<\/span><\/p>\n

Witnesses told police that Sean Stewart then pushed Dixon while Rod punched the security guard in the ribs area. Security video footage confirmed to authorities that the Stewarts were the \u201cprimary aggressors\u201d in the incident.<\/span><\/p>\n

Police noted that, following the altercation, Rod Stewart \u201capologized for his behavior in the incident,\u201d but Dixon said he wanted to pursue charges against the Stewarts. Rod <\/span>Stewart has not yet publicly commented on the incident. Sean Stewart later told TMZ<\/a> he expects he and his father to be exonerated.<\/p>\n

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A source told People<\/em> of the incident, \u201cIt was a brief misunderstanding and neither Rod nor Sean were detained. Apologies were exchanged and there were no injuries.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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Rod Stewart will face a misdemeanor count of simple battery after allegedly punching a security guard during a New Year\u2019s Eve party at a Florida resort. While not arrested, both the 74-year-old singer and his eldest son Sean Stewart were ordered to appear at the Palm Beach County Criminal Justice Complex on February 5th following […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-974255","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-27 09:31:36","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KFMU Solar Powered Radio","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/974255","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=974255"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/974255\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=974255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=974255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kfmu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=974255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}