As I Lay Dying frontman Tim Lambesis was arrested on Tuesday and stands accused of trying to hire someone to kill his estranged wife, according to the NBC affiliate in San Diego, Ca.

Lambesis was arrested after he allegedly asked an undercover detective to murder his estranged wife and was charged with solicitation of another to commit murder.

San Diego County Sheriff's Department told NBC that Lambesis was arrested at a business in Oceanside, Ca without incident.

Police reportedly began their investigation last Thursday after they were tipped off that the singer was purportedly attempting to solicit someone to murder his wife.

A spokesperson for the Sheriff's Department said "the information came to us late last week. We acted quickly on it. I believe that we averted a great tragedy."

Led Zeppelin were asked to reunite for a Hurricane Sandy charity show by former US president Bill Clinton, but even he couldn't get them to agree.

The former "most powerful man in the world" met the band while at their Kennedy Center Honors celebration at the White House in December.

Clinton later asked them if they'd reunite to play in support of the victims of Hurricane Sandy, which caused more than $75bn of damage and claimed the lives of nearly 300 people in October 2012.