My Chemical Romance Fires Drummer For Stealing

According to a statement posted on their official site, My Chemical Romance has fired their drummer, Michael Pedicone, for stealing from the band. According to guitarist Frank Iero, Pedicone was caught stealing from the band after a show late last week. While the band has no intentions on pressing charges, they made it clear in the statement that Pedicone's time in the band was done. The full statement can be found below:

Some shit happened last night and before the blogosphere gets all crazy with false statements and ridiculous opinions we want the true story to come from us... But please listen close because this is the only time we are ever going to talk about this. The relationship between My Chemical Romance and Michael Pedicone is over. He was caught red handed stealing from the band and confessed to police after our show last night in Auburn, Washington. We are heartbroken and sick to our stomachs over this entire situation. The band has no intention of pressing charges or taking this matter any further than we have to. We just want him out of our lives. The people who play in this band are a family, and family should not take advantage of each other like he did. We are currently moving forward, and hope to have a new drummer in place for our show in Salt Lake City, Utah. The show must go on.

Michael Pedicone took to his twitter account to comment on the situation by posting the following messages [1, 2]:

What happened is more complicated than it sounds but I did make a mistake. It was never my intention to hurt this band or all of you. It was an error in judgement based on a whole other situation that's way deeper but this does not define me.

Jarrod Alexander drummer for Death By Stereo and the Suicide File has been filling in for Pedicone since he got the boot on Friday. No word yet on whether or not he'll be filling in for all of the remaining tour dates on the Honda Civic Tour.