Weeks after singer Todd Snider claimed to have been assaulted while on tour in Salt Lake City, police say they found no evidence to back up the claim, adding that Snider may have been under the influence of drugs and alcohol at the time.
Snider and his team claimed in a social media post that he had been assaulted on Halloween night, forcing him to cancel a scheduled show the following day at The Commonwealth Room in South Salt Lake.
In its investigation report, the Salt Lake City Police Department said Snider’s manager had called from Tennessee to report the assault that left the singer with a “significant laceration to the back of his head.” The manager said Snider was transported to the hospital, where he received staples, and claimed to have been injured by a glass bottle after hearing a doctor say they had “removed broken glass from Todd’s scalp.”…