Macklemore Brings Fan on Stage in Slovakia, Unknowingly Leading to Her Arrest on an Outstanding Warrant

The fan was taken into custody after the "Thrift Shop" rapper's performance at Lovestream Festival on Saturday, Aug. 17

A Slovakian Macklemore fan got more than she bargained for when she joined the "Thrift Shop" rapper on stage last weekend.

On Saturday, Aug. 17, the 41-year-old Grammy winner played a set at Bratislava’s Lovestream Festival when he decided to bring up a fan named Samantha during his performance of "Downtown," per fan-shot footage from the fest.

As the Slovak Republic Police shared to its Facebook page days later and multiple outlets now report, the 24-year-old fan was actually wanted by authorities and arrested shortly after her stint on stage.

The national police force shared on Monday, Aug. 19, in a post roughly translated to English, that a woman was chosen to sing with "one of the foreign performers" during the event, sharing an image of the woman and Macklemore on stage. As it noted, she eventually "immortalized this experience and bragged about it" on social media.

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Following her post online, an "observant citizen" recognized the woman from a Slovakian website documenting fugitives and "immediately informed the police." Authorities then detained the woman before she was "escorted to the premises of the institution for the execution of" a prison sentence she hadn't yet served, per police.

A representative for Macklemore did not immediately respond to PEOPLE's request for comment.

Footage shared by a fan at last weekend's festival showed the woman jumping around the stage with a microphone in hand during Macklemore's 2016 hit "Downtown," which Setlist.fm noted he played toward the middle of his 10-song set.

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While the Slovak Republic Force did not reveal what the woman was wanted for or what the extent of her prison sentence was, TMZ and Rolling Stone both report (citing local media) that she was previously fined for running shirtless on the field at a 2019 soccer match. NME notes, citing Slovokian publication Plus 7, that she was fined €800 following a 2019 run-in with the law.

Elsewhere during Macklemore's performance last weekend, the crowd was "evacuated" as it "rained as hard as rain can fall" with lightning appearing during the festival, the rapper wrote to Instagram after the show.

"Just as we had given up hope the festival informed us they were letting the people back in. I’m sure some went home, but from my eye 25,000 beautiful drenched humans resumed in their places with spirits as charged as the lightening [sic] in the distance," he wrote after the fest. "We had come too far to turn back and the weather gods gave us a window."

"Something about a show almost getting canceled makes you appreciate every moment on stage even more," he added. "Gratitude ensues and it reverberated throughout the entire festival. We were alive, soaked and gave it everything. I love you Bratislava. I will never forget our night together."

Following a string of international dates in the coming months, Macklemore will be making his way to his hometown of Seattle for a show at The Residency in late November.

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