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Michael Pedicone, who has been drumming with My Chemical Romance for about a year, has been fired for stealing from the band.

MCR’s guitarist, Frank Lero, said “Please listen close because this is the only time we are ever going to talk about this. The relationship between My Chemical Romance and Michael Pedicone is over. He was caught red handed stealing from the band and confessed to the police after our show in Auburn, Washington. We are heartbroken and sick to our stomachs over this entire situation. The band has no intention of pressing any charges or taking this matter any further than we have to. We just want him out of our lives.”

Pedicone responded on Twitter, “What happened is more complicated than it sounds but I did make a mistake. It was never my intention to hurt this band or all of you. It was an error in judgement based on a whole other situation that’s way deeper but this does not define me.”

It looks like Dead County’s Jarrod Alexander (former drummer of Death By Stereo and Suicide File) is filling in while the band states, “The show must go on.”