Rappers allegedly trashed Coliseum dressing room

ABC-7 is learning new information about the arrest of DJ Klever in El Paso last weekend.

He allegedly resisted arrest Friday night during the Texas Showdown Festival at the County Coliseum.

The complaint affidavit states an El Paso County Sheriff’s deputy says the DJ, whose real name is Josh Winkler, was drunk and out of control back stage. The deputy says Winkler swung at someone who tried to help him.

Two officers tried to arrest him, but say he refused. Klever serves as the DJ for hip hop artist Yelawolf. Yelawolf posted a photo on his Facebook account of Klever after he was released. He accused authorities of beating Klever up.//

ABC-7 also learned more about what happened after the arrest of DJ Klever in Yelawolf’s Coliseum dressing room, speaking with El Paso Sports Commission CEO Brian Kennedy. He has been in charge of the County Coliseum for nearly two decades and he said he’s never seen anything like what happened last weekend.

“I think it was a great event that was marred by one guy deciding to be a knuckle head,” Kennedy said.

Kennedy said he briefed Yelawolf about the charges filed against his DJ in his dressing room.

“He jumped off the couch to threaten me and he was going to beat me up and so we just left,” Kennedy said. “I just left the room at that point.”

Kennedy said when he came back up to Yelawolf’s dressing room after he left the Coliseum, he found the toilet plugged with towels and a beer can in the tank in an attempt to flood the second floor.

“Had we not known there was a potential for damage and hadn’t gotten it, it would have flooded the entire second dressing room and probably dripped down into the first floor dressing room also,” Kennedy said before pointing out that someone also left behind a pile of human feces. “He had relieved himself and left a pile of excrement in the middle of the dressing room.”

Yelawolf posted an Instagram photo of a member of his crew allegedly soiling the dressing room floor.

“I also understand there was also some damage at the hotel later that evening,” Kennedy said.

An employee at the Radisson Airport told ABC-7 someone in Yelawolf’s crew left some damage here at the hotel, although they would not say what that damage was, or speak about it on camera.

“This tattoo festival brought in over a quarter of a million dollars in economic impact,” Kennedy said. “It was an awesome festival. Everybody had a great time. I think everybody who came here had a great time. Behind the scenes we had one knuckle head we had to deal with.”

Kennedy said he did not witness Klever’s arrest, but he did see him drinking tequila and Jaegermeister earlier in the evening and saw him allegedly kicking at officers in the security office.

Asked if Yelawolf and his crew would ever be invited back, Kennedy laughed and replied: “I would be surprised.”