Collegville’s 'Bloodhound Gang' Facing Charges after Ukranian Concert

The Bloodhound Gang, fronted by Perkiomen Valley High School graduate James Moyer Franks (Jimmy Pop) was banned from Russia and is facing “hooliganism” charges the band’s bassist allegedly inappropriately handed a Russian flag in the Ukraine.

While performing in the Ukranian port city of Odessa, Jared (Evil) Hasselhoff allegedly put a Russian flag in his pants and said “Don’t tell Putin” to the crowd, according to the New York Times.

A video of the incident went viral in the Ukraine and Russia, and the band was deported from Russia, where they had arrived to perform at the Kubana Music Festival.

“Bloodhoung Gang packing suitcases,” said Vladimir Medinsky, cultural minister to Russia tweeted Friday, according to Rolling Stone.  “These idiots won’t perform in Kubana.”

In the video, Jimmy Pop is seen telling the crowd that he disagreed with what Haselhoff did.

“Russia is better than America,” Jimmy Pop said, according to NBCNews.  “So I disapprove of that.”

A Russian law enforcement agency threatened to press criminal charges for desecrating the national flag.