STOCKHOLM, Sweden (AP) - Guns N' Roses frontman Axl Rose spent most of Tuesday in a Stockholm jail cell after allegedly biting a security guard in the leg at his hotel, police said. Rose, who performed in the Swedish capital on Monday, was arrested early Tuesday after attacking and threatening the guard, as well as causing damage to the Berns Hotel, police spokeswoman Towe Hagg said.
He was released from jail around 7 p.m. after agreeing to pay a fine of 40,000 kronor ($5,500), Hagg said. Rose was also ordered to pay 10,000 kronor ($1,360) in damages to the security guard, she said.
No criminal charges were filed against him.
Guns N' Roses was scheduled to perform in Norway's capital, Oslo, on Wednesday night.
Concert organizer Ema Telstar said the band was not traveling with a publicist and would not comment on the arrest.
Hagg told The Associated Press that Rose was intoxicated during the confrontation, which occurred shortly before 8 a.m., and was not questioned by police until after he sobered up.
"He was deemed too intoxicated to be questioned right away," she said.
It was unclear what caused the fight, but Swedish tabloids said the guard tried to intervene when Rose started arguing with a woman in the hotel lobby.
Fredrik Nylen, one of the police officers who helped arrest Rose, was quoted by the daily Aftonbladet Web site as saying that the singer acted aggressively toward police and had to be handcuffed and restrained in the hotel.
"He kept a high profile, so to speak," Nylen was quoted as saying.
Guns N' Roses played a concert in Stockholm's Globe Arena Monday night, and had been partying at a well-known night club before the scuffle, Aftonbladet said.
