Another shakeup with the German based boy band Us5, with Chris Watrin leaving the group after suffering from ‘burn-out-syndrome’ and losing a joy for music. Watrin said that he wants to continue with school and go to University in the near future. The move follows Mikel Johnson’s departure from the Lou Pearlman founded boy band last year, who was replaced by Vincent Tomas. At his parents’ demands, Richie Stringini also briefly left the group only to return a few months later.

A report from Punkt12 on the news, in German, at YouTube has since been removed.

The South Florida Sun-Sentinel reports Lou Pearlman, the Orlando boy-band mogul, was taken into custody by the FBI early this morning in Indonesia. Authorities in that country expelled Pearlman and then turned him over to U.S. authorities. “We are aware that he is in the custody of the FBI, I can’t comment beyond that,” said Steve Cole, a spokesman for the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Tampa. Meanwhile, Pearlman’s band US5 are set to release their new single ‘Rhythm Of Life’ in Germany on Friday and his other act, Streetwize, indicate they have no label on their MySpace (@streetwizeofficial).

Dozens of agents from the FBI and the Internal Revenue Service swarmed the Orlando offices of music mogul Lou Pearlman on Thursday. They arrived at the Trans Continental headquarters on Church Street with search warrants, WESH 2 News reported. Pearlman, who used to manage *NSYNC and the Backstreet Boys and currently manages US5 and Streetwize, has $160 million in bank and creditor debts and may owe more than $300 million to investors in a savings program that investigators have called fraudulent.

The article at wesh.com has since been removed.