AC/DC drummer Phil Rudd arrested again

Judge Ingram also remarked that home detention had been his sole alternative to sending Rudd to jail.

The 61-year-old rocker was arrested in New Zealand Saturday night, less than two weeks after he dodged prison time tied to a murder for hire plot.

The 61-year-old musician will appear in court in Tauranga district on Monday morning, the news agency said.

MARTY MELVILLE/AFP/Getty Images AC/DC drummer Phil Rudd was sentenced to eight months of home detention July 9 after he pleaded guilty to threatening to kill his former personal assistant and drug possession charges in Tauranga District Court.

Rudd’s lawyer Craig Tuck confirmed the arrest but refused to elaborate.

“I am not making any further comment at all on the matter”.

Local police in the Bay of Plenty, on New Zealand’s North Island, told the Stuff.co.nz website the department would not comment until after the court hearing.

Judge Thomas Ingram said Rudd’s limited criminal history meant home detention was appropriate for threatening to kill his ex-security chief, but said he would be closely monitored and imprisoned if he breached the terms of the sentence. The Court of Appeal last month rejected an appeal by the Civil Aviation Authority. It emerged he told an associate he wanted a former employee “taken out” and offered him $200,000, a motorbike, and the choice of one of his cars or a house.