Nick Arrested - 6
Not unlike an unruly child being warned with a time out, BSB-next-door Nick Carter was given to the count of three before Tampa police arrested him on Jan. 2 for defying repeated orders to leave the scene of a nightclub fracas. Carter, 21, who was charged with the misdemeanor of resisting an officer, had been partying with friends at the Pop City nightclub when other patrons began brawling shortly after 3am. When police tried to disperse the crowd, the singer refused to budge. "They hancuffed him and put him the cop car," says clubgoer Jennifer Guggino, 21. For his part, Carter says his only crime was "moving too slow." A hearing is set for March 4. The incident comes on the heels of the BSB's other g-rated run-in with the law: In May his luxury cabin cruiser ran into a protected sea grass habitat in the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary. (Carter is negotiating with a federal agency to pay for the restoration of the sea bed and appear in public service announcements encouraging boaters to avoid coral reefs.) Shaken fans can take heart that, despite the recent tarnish on his wholesome image, Carter's trademark boy band sensitivity remains as strong as ever. During the arrest, "There were tears running down his face, " recalls Guggino. "I told him it was not a big deal, and there was no need to cry. He said, "It's okay for a man to cry.'" >>
Nick calling into the MJ Morning Show on 93.3flz.
MJ: Nick is that you
Nick: Ayup.
MJ: Eh, it’s Nick Carter…from the Backstreet Boys…hello Nick, it’s MJ. We’re live on the air.
Nick: What’s up, bro?
MJ: Well, uh…Froggy’s unemployed after today even, even though you’ve called in..
Nick: What!?
MJ: Nick, you told Froggy that you promised you were gonna call in yesterday and Froggy tells me that you even asked him, uh, will your job be in jeopardy if I don’t call in on Monday morning, and Froggy apparently said, “yes”
Nick: MJ…
MJ: Froggy what DID he say to you after that? Froggy: He says, “that if I don’t call in, Froggy and you get fired, I’ll just write you a check and you’ll live the rest of your life. Don’t worry about it.”
Nick: Aw, my goodness. Don’t fire him. It was my fault. It was my fault.
MJ: That’s right, but then you’ve gotta write a check.
Nick: What!? Wait a minute.
MJ: You’ve gotta write a check then. Nick, what’s…what’s 50 grand to you?
Nick: Fifty grand? It’s…good LORD!
MJ: laughs
Nick: Good Lord, that’s a lot of money. **giggles**
MJ: Ah, Nick?
Nick: What’s up?
MJ: $25,000. That’s what it’s gonna take uh, for Froggy…you know what if you write Froggy a $25,000 check I will not fire him.
Nick: Oh really?
MJ: Yes
Nick: laughs
MJ: That’s a deal.
Nick: You guys are negotiating.
MJ: Oh no. There’s no, there’s no negotiation here. Nick, if you write Froggy, a $25,000 check, I will keep him on the staff.
Nick: **giggles** Aw, come on, man. Everybody loves Froggy.
MJ: **scoffs** Well, listen, just cuz I might like him personally. Uh, I can still fire him professionally.
Froggy: You heard him say it was Nick’s fault, it’s not mine
MJ: So, Nick, if you write Froggy a $25,000…Froggy lives paycheck to paycheck now. This guy’s squeakin’ by and you’re this multi-jillionaire national world-wide recording artist with the Backstreet Boys, one of the most successful groups of, you know, the last decade, you know with gross revenues with concerts and with, uh, CD sales and uh, merchandising.
Froggy: He knows that.
MJ: Nick.
Nick: You guys are the biggest station in the USA
MJ: Nick, in the world…uh, well, unfortunately
Froggy’s not reaping the financial benefits of that.
Froggy: Isn’t that the truth?
MJ: So, Nick, I need you to write Froggy a twenty-…if, if you write him a $25,000 check, which you won’t even miss that. If you write him a $25,000 check, I will not fire him. Nick, it’s in your hands. What is your answer?
Nick: How ‘bout we make…how ‘bout we make it up by playin’ a basketball game?
Froggy: **laughs**
MJ: Say it, say it again?
Nick: How ‘bout we make it up by playin’ a basketball game?
MJ: And if Froggy beats you, you write him a $25,000 check?
Nick: Oh, I don’t know about that! I might, I…**giggles** I’d like to donate the money to charity
MJ: Oh, the Froggy’s charity! That, that is a 501C3 (?) I believe
Nick: **giggles**
MJ: Alright, Nick, let’s…let’s get down to business here. Uh, you wanted to set the record straight on some of the allegations being made at the uh, arrest for the uh…What was the actual charge, Frog?
Froggy: Uh, I was loitering and disobeying a police officer and resisting arrest was…
MJ: Resisting arrest without violence.
Froggy: Right
MJ: Uh, Nick, what did you wanna set straight?
Nick: Well, basically, I mean, everybody knows, everybody knows that you can’t really talk too much about situations like this because you know this is a thing…serious situations, certain cases. But, I mean, I…you know, basically I didn’t do anything. I didn’t do nothin’ wrong and I, I mean, if I had, if I did disrespect the cop in any way, I have apologized to him you know. But um, you know, you know, I’m not a bad person. I’ve always, you know I’ve have people that I work with that are, you know, ex-cops or bouncers or bodyguards of some sort, so you know and you know…I just..it’s…basically that, that situation I can only talk a little bit about that for certain reasons and you know why. But I think the main thing I wanted to tell you, to talk, you know to talk to you guys is the other rumors that was being said you know by certain people and you know, like, I guess the, the indecent, you know conduct or whatever…
MJ: Well there was the report….there was the rumor, Nick that you uh, pulled out your penis and exposed yourself
Nick: Uh-huh, I heard that. **giggles** Well, I mean, if anybody knows me then they know I’m not like that at all, so
MJ: Alright, so you’re saying that you did not pull out your unit and expose yourself?
Nick: I’m absolutely SURE I did not do that.
MJ: So, that’s just an ugly rumor.
Nick: Of course, of course, I mean, everybody likes to get the juicy stuff goin’, but you know I’m, I’m not that kind of person, and I’ve really not done anything like that EVER.
MJ: Alright, so you’re categorically denying there was no Nick Carter, Backstreet Boy crotch exposure that night?
Nick: Never and never will be. MJ: Alright, I, I believe the guy, but would you come in? Could we hook up a polygraph to you? **all laugh** We’ll hook it up to your crotch, actually.
Nick: **still giggling** You know, you guys are nuts.
MJ: Alright, Nick. Where you headed now? It sounds like you’re uh…what are you doin’ up so early?
Nick: I’m in the airport right now, actually. I’m headin’ to LA to do the AMA’s with Kevin. Me and Kevin are goin’ on with our, our artist from our record label, Krystal.
I won't post the rest since it has nothing to do with him being arrested. If you want the whole transcripit, just go to MJ's morning page.