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May 17, 1983
The same day he's honored at the White House, Bill Monroe is arrested in a Washington airport for inadvertently attempting to pass a loaded gun through security. He is forced to pay a $15,000 fine
Jun 3, 1983
Responding to schizophrenic voices in his head, drummer Jim Gordon kills his mother in California. He is sentenced to 16 years to life. A member of Derek & The Dominos, he played on hits by Merle Haggard, Glen Campbell and Waylon Jennings
Aug 5, 1983
David Crosby, formerly of The Byrds, receives a five-year prison sentence from a Dallas judge for drug charges filed after a 1982 arrest. Crosby is allowed out on bond while the decision is appealed
Sep 16, 1983
George Jones performs a benefit concert in Jackson, Mississippi, for 6,000 people, a condition of a plea bargain for cocaine charges the previous year. The show raises $18,000 for local charities
Sep 24, 1983
Ronnie McDowell is arrested and charged with carrying a concealed weapon when a loaded derringer is discovered by an X-ray machine in his luggage at National Airport in Washington, D.C.
May 10, 1984
Paul Anka, author of the Elvis Presley country hit "My Way," helps two other men pin a mugger to the sidewalk on New York City's East 61st Street after the 16-year-old thief stole a necklace
Jul 10, 1984
Drummer Jim Gordon is sentenced to 16 years to life for brutally murdering his mother with a hammer and a knife in a schizophrenic rage. Gordon played on country hits by Glen Campbell, Merle Haggard, Gordon Lighftoot and Lynn Anderson
Aug 12, 1984
The body of jazz guitarist Lenny Breau is found in a swimming pool in Los Angeles. The coroner determines he was strangled, but the perpetrator is never identified. Breau was the son of Harold Breau and former country hitmaker Betty Cody
Dec 2, 1984
Steve Sanders, rhythm guitar player for The Oak Ridge Boys, has an argument with his ex-wife Mary, in which she claims he "choked, scratched and bruised" her while picking up a car. He later pleads guilty to assault and battery
Jan 7, 1985
David Crosby, whose former band The Byrds helped define country-rock, fails to enter a drug rehabilitation facility and has his bond revoked in court
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