Justin Timberlake might need an ace within the gap to get his DWI case dismissed … and it is a girl who took the keys to his automotive after his arrest … TMZ has realized.
As we reported, Justin was busted for drunk driving final month, after partying with pals at a Sag Harbor lodge. Cops say they noticed him blow a cease signal and swerve as he was following some pals.
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After he was stopped, cops say he failed a number of sobriety area assessments and in addition smelled of alcohol. He refused to blow right into a Breathalyzer, and claimed he solely drank one martini.
Sources with direct data inform TMZ … the automotive Justin was following got here again to the place the singer was pulled over. There was a lady and her husband in that automotive, and the girl bought out and went as much as one of many cops and started questioning him, asking, “Are you going to arrest Justin Timberlake?”
She then supplied to drive Justin to their home, the place he was going to spend the night time … in different phrases, simply let him go and he or she and her husband would get him residence safely. That technique didn’t work, and Justin was arrested.
Now this is the twist. Our sources say the girl requested cops if she may take Justin’s rental automotive to her home, provided that Justin was going to jail. The cops obliged, she bought in Justin’s automotive and left.
We’re instructed the girl had arrived at The American Lodge 2 hours earlier than Justin and was ingesting … and it was obvious she had been ingesting. But the two cops who have been on the scene let her take the wheel and drive away.
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We’re instructed Justin’s lawyer, Edward Burke, Jr. — who’s making an attempt to get the case dismissed — will argue the two younger cops have been so off of their judgment, they let an individual who had clearly been ingesting drive away, proper in entrance of their eyes. In the event that they have been unable to correctly consider her, how may they correctly consider him?
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Burke, we’re instructed, will make that argument to the choose as a part of his movement to get the case 86’d.
