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Steve Johnson, drummer and founding member of Alabama Shakes, was arrested in Limestone County, Alabama, on charges of “willful torture, willful abuse, and cruelly beating or otherwise willfully maltreating a child under the age of 18” on Wednesday, according to WHNT Huntsville. Thirty-five-year-old Steven William Johnson was taken into police custody after a Limestone County Grand Jury indicted him on these child abuse charges, with bond set at $21,500 and an arraignment date of April 7. In 2019, Johnson was previously arrested for violating a protection from abuse order, a charge to which he pled guilty. Alabama Shakes went on hiatus in 2018 when front woman Brittany Howard left to pursue solo projects.