When Tommy Lee wants door-to-door service he doesn't mess around.

A helicopter pilot who was commissioned July 7 to transport the 43-year-old Mötley Crüe drummer from a house in the Hollywood Hills to a Nine Inch Nails concert 50 miles away in Irvine has found himself in hot water after he took the liberty of landing in the middle of a residential street to pick Lee up.

The Los Angeles City Attorney's Office charged David Keith Martz, 49, Monday with one misdemeanor count each of reckless operation of an aircraft, landing an aircraft on a public road (in this case the 1800 block of Wattles Drive) and landing an aircraft without a permit.

Each count carries the maximum penalty of a $1,000 fine or six months in jail.

Authorities said that the LAPD's Air Support Division spotted Martz's helicopter hovering around the area where Lee was holed up and tried to radio the pilot, who didn't respond. Once Martz had landed and headed into the requisite house, officers approached and informed him he had landed illegally.

Then officers watched as Martz, Lee and two other people got back into the helicopter and flew south. They returned to the scene two hours later where, once again, Martz landed in the street.

Lee, who apparently knows just how bad the traffic can get on the 405 South freeway when there's a concert at Irvine's Verizon Wireless Amphitheater, is not facing any legal repercussions from the troublemaking flight, although this is not the first time the Tommyland: The Ride artist has propelled his way to controversy. In 2004 the L.A. fire marshal wouldn't let Mötley Crüe land its Red, White & Crüe chopper outside the Hollywood Palladium, prompting the band to show up in a hearse instead.

Dvora Vener Englefield, Lee's publicist, said that her client would not be commenting on the July 7 incident. Attempts to reach Martz were unsuccesful.

Per the Los Angeles Times, city officials said that the last Hollywood celeb to flaunt his helicopter prowess in public was Frank Sinatra, but no one could say whether Ol' Blue Eyes or his pilots were ever reprimanded or otherwise punished for the infractions.

Lee, who performed mixing duties on Nine Inch Nail's 1994 album The Downward Spiral (hence his fierce desire to make the concert on time?), is currently searching for a singer via CBS' Rock Star: Supernova to front his new band--Supernova--which he formed with former Metallica bassist Jason Newsted and ex-Guns N' Roses guitarist Gilby Clarke.

But all is not perfect in heavy metal land. The trio and Mark Burnett Productions were slapped with a lawsuit in June alleging trademark infringement by the pre-existing Supernova, an Orange County-based punk rock band that's none too happy at the prospect of being mistaken for the hard-rockin' new version.