Former Creed singer arrested on domestic assault charge

[Dr. Jack]

The former lead singer of the rock band Creed was arrested Sunday on a domestic assault charge at his $4.9 million home in Long Lake Estates west of Boca Raton, the Sheriff's Office said.

Scott Stapp, 33, who has had run-ins with police for alleged drunken behavior and reckless driving, was being held at the county jail.

No one was injured in the incident, sheriff's spokesman Paul Miller said. But there was evidence of assault in the house in the 8800 block of Twin Lake Drive, Miller said. Stapp co-owns the house with his wife, former Miss New York Jaclyn Nesheiwat. Sheriff's officials did not give more details.

Stapp married Nesheiwat in 2006. The couple exchanged vows at the Vizcaya Museum and Gardens, an estate on the waterfront of Biscayne Bay in Miami. While on the way to their honeymoon in Hawaii, he was arrested on suspicion of being drunk in public at the Los Angeles airport.

He got into a widely publicized fight in a Baltimore hotel with members of the rock band 311 on Thanksgiving 2005.

He was arrested on a reckless driving offense in 2002 by the Orange County Sheriff's Office, state records show.

After the airport incident, Stapp promised to get his life together. According to an article in the music magazine Rolling Stone, Stapp was traveling with a "sobriety coach" while on tour last year.

In January, he and his wife had a baby girl, Milan Hayat Stapp. He also has a son, Jagger, from a previous relationship.

The rocker founded Creed and won a Grammy Award in 2000 for the song With Arms Wide Open. He went out on his own last year with the solo album The Great Divide.

Nesheiwat has been the director of public affairs for the Scott Stapp Foundation, which promotes healthy parent-child relationships, People magazine reported. Earlier this month, Stapp announced his sponsorship of The Haven, a group home for abused and neglected boys west of Boca Raton.

Leon Fooksman can be reached at lfooksman@sun-sentinel.com

[dhunter]

scott stapp is the biggest d-bag

[jaypasco]

great voice

[Romanowski]

christian rock

[jaypasco]

with arms wide opem under the sunlight