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                <p>SALT LAKE CITY – Police say officers have found former Alice in Chains bassist Mike Starr dead in a home near Salt Lake City's downtown area.</p>
                <p>Salt Lake City Police Sgt. Shawn Josephson says officers responded to the home Tuesday afternoon. He says details about the cause or circumstances of the 44-year-old's death were not immediately available.</p>
                <p>It wasn't immediately clear who owned the home or phoned police.</p>
                <p>Starr was the original bassist for Alice in Chains, an iconic Seattle-based band that made its mark on the grunge scene of the early 1990s. He left the group in 1993.</p>
                <p>Josephson says Salt Lake City police arrested Starr last month on suspicion of possession of medications without a required prescription.</p>
                <p>Starr appeared on the third season of VH1's "Celebrity Rehab with Dr. Drew" in 2009.</p>
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