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Justin Bieber Allowed Into U.S. After ICE Search Turns Up Empty

By Jeralyn, Section Crime in the News
Posted on Sat Feb 01, 2014 at 03:27:14 PM EST
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Last week, Justin Bieber was charged in Miami with driving under the influence, resisting arrest without force, and driving with an expired license. His toxicology report showed virtually no alcohol (.014). According to the results of his urine test, he had no amphetamines, opiates, oxycodone or Ambien (Zolpiderm)in his system. He tested positive for pot and Xanax, a prescription anxiety medication. These are not the results of someone with a drug problem. As to the drag racing allegation by police, that didn't happen either, according to the GPS data of the vehicle Justin was driving. The cops estimation of his speed in the police report was way off.

After a sojourn in Panama, he flew to Toronto where he had a pending misdemeanor-type charge for allegedly hitting a limo driver who was driving him and some friends around. He is represented in that case by the excellent Los Angeles attorney Howard Weitzman, and it sounds like that case will be tough to prove as well. [More...]

Justin was cruising along in Toronto in the back seat of the limo when he wanted the driver to turn up the noise ... on the radio. The driver turned it up ... but not as much as Justin wanted, and an argument erupted.

According to one of our sources ... the argument became physical when Justin reached his arm out to turn up the radio himself ... and the driver swatted his hand away. The limo driver claims Justin started screaming profanities ... then smacked him several times in the head.

Bieber's lawyer, Howard Weitzman, says his client is "innocent," and a source connected with Bieber insists it was one of Justin's friends -- not Justin -- who hit the driver. The source would not reveal the identity of the friend.

The cops say the driver claimed to be hit in the back of his head by someone in the back seat who he thought was Bieber. There were six people besides the driver in the car. If the limo driver was hit in the back of the head from someone in the back seat, how would he be able identify which person hit him?

Yesterday, he and his father and 8 or so other friends flew on a private jet into Teeterboro airport in N.J. with plans to attend the Superbowl.

ICE decided to search the chartered jet claiming they smelled marijuana on some of the passengers. They brought in the dogs and searched the plane, finding no drugs. Yet they kept Bieber for five hours, grilling him with questions, because he had active charges (Miami and Toronto.) They then let him enter the country.

Also yesterday, in Los Angeles, a friend of Justin's was charged with felony possession of drugs stemming from the Jan. 14 alleged egg-tossing incident at Justin's neighbor's house. No charges were brought against Bieber, although the egg-tossing incident is still under investigation.

The media headlines scream Justin is out of control. Sounds to me like law enforcement are the ones who need reining in.

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    there is no allegation he did not have (none / 0) (#2)
    by Jeralyn on Sat Feb 01, 2014 at 06:37:50 PM EST
    a valid prescription. He has not been charged with illegally obtaining or using a drug.

    His mother manages his prescriptions, he doesn't know the names of his prescriptions. He did not get the off the street.

    He had two breath tests for alcohol (.014 and .011) and a urine test. The cops said he failed a roadside sobriety, but that's  inconsequential given the testing results.

    Your comments are very anti-defense. This is a defense-oriented site. Promoting speculative scenarios to imply guilt is not allowed here.

    Suggesting he got a drug off the street when there is no suggestion this happened is inappropriate here. Please take those kind of comments elsewhere.

    The field sobriety test (none / 0) (#3)
    by jbindc on Sat Feb 01, 2014 at 07:04:54 PM EST
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    At the police station, Bieber failed a series of sobriety tests, including "horizontal gaze," "Romberg balance," "walk and turn," "finger to nose" and