According to 3 News, AC/DC drummer Phil Rudd was placed in handcuffs and put into the back of a police car early Thursday morning (December 4) following an incident outside a coffee shop in a shopping center in Gate Pa, New Zealand.

Leo Rojas, the owner of Columbus Coffee in Tauranga, said he witnessed an altercation between Rudd and a unidentified man at about 10:20 a.m.

"I saw him following a taller, bigger guy and trying to punch the guy," Rojas told NZ Newswire.

Rojas said the man was trying to get away from Rudd, telling the drummer, "Look, I don't want to break your face."

He said the man eventually got tired of Rudd's aggressive behavior and pushed the musician away. "[Rudd] literally fell away like a fly," said Rojas.

A third man, believed to be Rudd's bodyguard, tried to break up the fight between the rocker and the taller man by holding the drummer back.

"That's when Phil started punching and kicking his own bodyguard, which I found funny," said Rojas.

Rudd was taken to court where his lawyer acknowledged that the rocker breached his bail agreement by having contact with complainants and police witnesses named in the police charge sheets in his upcoming trial. The judge set a new bail that called for a new condition in which Rudd is not allowed to consume illegal drugs. Crown solicitor Greg Hollister-Jones said he sought this extra condition because Rudd's behavior had been erratic and it would help to manage his complacence with all his bail conditions.