2 Men Arrested in Robbery of Quiet Riot’s Lead Guitarist
Los Angeles police captured two men Thursday and are looking for a third who pistol-whipped and robbed the lead guitarist of the heavy metal band Quiet Riot.
Carlos Cavazo, 40, was in his bathroom when an armed man walked in early Thursday, ordered him to the ground at gunpoint, slugged him with a pistol and tied his ankles and wrists with a phone cord, police said.
As the robbers searched other rooms, Cavazo said, he untied himself and ran out the front door in his boxer shorts, flagging down a passing patrol car.
The men fled a short time later, but police stopped a blue van and arrested two men on suspicion of robbery.
None of Cavazo’s property was recovered. But Cavazo identified one of the men in a police lineup.
The suspects are a 43-year-old Woodland Hills man and a 24-year-old Inglewood man but their names were not made public to avoid tainting future lineups, said LAPD Lt. Anthony Alba.
Quiet Riot’s popularity peaked in the mid-1980s, with record sales of 10 million worldwide, including “Bang Your Head” and “Feel the Noize.”
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