New York – In the space of a few hours the singer and actor Justin Timberlake he was arrested for drunk driving, brought before the judge and released without paying bail, but banned from driving in New York State for one year.
In the United States there is one thing you should never do when you are stopped by the police: cling to the formula “you don’t know who I am”. This makes the situation worse. When the artist handed over his document to the policeman who had stopped him the night between Monday and Tuesday in upstate New York, he thought the agent would recognize him and everything would end with an autograph. Instead the agent was too young to know the author of Dick in a box And Give it to me. The name Timberlake didn’t mean anything to him.
The singer, according to what local media reported, tried to play a card, saying: “This thing will ruin my tour.” “Which tour?” replied the policeman. “The world tour,” added the artist. But nothing. For him, the world-famous singer and actor was just someone found behind the wheel of a BMW that hadn’t stopped at the stop sign and had crossed the dividing line between two lanes.
According to the report, Timberlake appeared to be intoxicated, unable to fully stand. The singer explained that he had attended a party of friends at the American Hotel in Sag Harbor, in the Hamptons, Long Island, east of New York, where rich New Yorkers spend their summer holidays, and that he had only drunk a martini. But his condition betrayed him. The policeman described the singer as having “bloodshot and glassy eyes”, surrounded by a “strong smell of alcohol, and speaking very slowly”. All the standard tests, such as walking in an imaginary straight line, the cop added, Timberlake “failed.”
The singer refused to take the test. Kept in custody all night, he was brought before the judge at 9.30 on Tuesday morning, charged with driving while impaired, failing to stop a stop sign and failing to maintain his driving lane. Timberlake is currently on tour with his Forget Tomorrow World Tour, following the release of his latest album, Everything I thought it was. His most recent concert was in Miami on June 15th. The next one is scheduled in Chicago on June 21st and 22nd. On the 26th Timberlake will have to appear before the judge again.
