Pit5 Music News Cache

Josh Grossberg Fri Aug 17, 10:10 AM ET

Los Angeles (E! Online) - No stranger to shame, indeed.

Uncle Kracker was released on $75,000 bond Friday afternoon, hours after being arrested in Raleigh, North Carolina, for allegedly committing an unlawful sexual act on a woman in a nightclub.

According to the Raleigh Police Department, a 26-year-old female patron at the downtown hotspot Ess Lounge approached an off-duty police officer working security and reported that Kid Rock's former deejay, whose real name is Matthew Shafer, had forced himself on her in the club.

Kracker had performed at the Ess Lounge Thursday night.

After an investigation, the 33-year-old entertainer was located at a nearby Embassy Suites Hotel and taken into custody at about 4:45 a.m. He was transported to Wake County Jail and booked on a charge of second-degree forcible sex.

Police spokesman Jim Sughrue said Kracker and his accuser did not know each other. He declined to divulge further details regarding the nature of the crime.

However, per an arrest warrant obtained by tmz.com, Kracker is accused of "unlawfully, willfully and feloniously [engaging] in a sexual act other than vaginal intercourse" by force and without the consent of the victim.

Police say the musician also made statements to his arresting officers indicating he might hightail it back to his native Michigan. As a result, the court deemed him "an exceptionally high flight risk" due to his notoriety as a "nationally known singer with major assets at his disposal," and bail was set at $5 million.

During a subsequent court appearance, the judge reduced that amount to $75,000.

Kracker's local attorney, James A. Crouch, did not respond to phone calls. A publicist for his label, Lava Records, a unit of Warner Music Group, declined to comment.

After deejaying in a Detroit strip club to pay the bills, Kracker found fame working the turntables on the early tours of childhood pal Kid Rock. In 2000, he released his debut album, Double Wide, which spawned the hit "Follow Me" and sold more than 2 million copies.

He left Rock's stable in 2002 and released the country- and blues-tinged No Stranger to Shame, which was followed by 2004's Seventy Two and Sunny. He also scored a number one country hit with "When the Sun Goes Down," a duet with Kenny Chesney.

(Originally published at 10:15 a.m. PT.)