Justin Bieber was charged with drunken driving, resisting arrest and driving without a valid license after police saw the pop star street racing early Thursday morning, Miami Beach police said.
"What the f*** did I do?
Why did you stop me?" Bieber asked the police officer who pulled him
over just after 4 a.m., according to the arrest report.
Bieber, 19, was released
from a Miami jail an hour after he made a brief appearance through a
video link before a Miami judge, who set a "standard" $2,500 bond
Thursday afternoon.
He strutted out of the
jail dressed in black, with a baggy hoodie covering his head. His pants
appeared to be baggy leather. Bieber briefly sat on top of a black
Cadillac Escalade, where he waved to screaming fans, before he was
chauffeured away.
See Justin Bieber face judge
At the bail hearing, the
singer, dressed in an orange jail uniform, stood silently with his lips
sometimes pursed as attorney Roy Black represented him in the hearing
earlier.
Black told Judge Joseph
Farina that he had been retained by Bieber's manager. He said his
partner had been denied access to Bieber in jail before the hearing.
Bieber was booked into a
Miami jail after failing a sobriety test, Miami Beach Police Chief
Raymond Martinez told reporters Thursday.
Bieber "made some
statements that he had consumed some alcohol, and that he had been
smoking marijuana and consumed some prescription medication," Martinez
said.
A Miami Beach officer saw
Bieber driving a yellow Lamborghini in a race against a red Ferrari in a
residential area of Miami Beach, Martinez said. The cars were speeding
at about 55 to 60 mph in a 30 mph zone, he said.
The officer pulled Bieber's car over, but the singer was "was not cooperating with the officer's instructions," Martinez said.
"At first, he was a
little belligerent, using some choice words questioning why he was being
stopped and why the officer was even questioning him," he said.
He allegedly ignored a
police officer's request to keep his hands on the car while he did "a
cursory patdown for weapons," the report said.
"I ain't got no f***ing
weapons," the arresting officer quoted Bieber as saying. "Why do you
have to search me? What the f*** is this about?"
The arrest report describes Bieber as having a "flushed face, bloodshot eyes, and the odor of alcohol on his breath."
Bieber failed a field sobriety test, Miami Beach Police Sgt. Bobby Hernandez told CNN.
Two black SUVs blocked
the traffic at 26th and Pine Tree Drive, which "facilitated an open
road" for the two cars to race on Pine Tree, the report said.
The Ferrari's driver,
identified as 19-year-old Def Jam recording artist Khalil Sharieff, was
also arrested on a drunken driving charge, police said.
Sharieff posted a photo
on his Instagram account of Bieber in the yellow Lamborghini with a
woman behind the wheel early Thursday. "U know bizzle brought that lambo
out," he wrote in the caption.
Another posting showed a
photo of a Ferrari steering wheel with the caption: "Miami nights ridin
thru yo city in that hot wheel."
A tweet posted Wednesday evening on Sharieff's verfied Twitter account linked to a video of him playing basketball with Bieber.
Bieber flew to Miami on Monday
Another police
department in the Miami area is investigating a report that some of its
officers escorted Bieber's caravan between Miami strip clubs this week
without authorization.
Opa-Locka Assistant City Manager David Chiverton told CNN affiliate WSVN-TV that "at some point, the escort took them at least to two locations that we know of."
"The police
administration had no knowledge of this escort, and it is not the norm
for those things to occur without the chief and his administration
authorizing such escorts," Chiverton told the TV station.
Thursday's incident
marks the first time the teen singer has been arrested, although he is
under investigation on allegations of egging his California neighbor's
home.
Los Angeles County
sheriff's deputies used a felony search warrant last week to raid
Bieber's mansion in the felony vandalism investigation. They seized
Bieber's iPhone and the security camera system, which detectives have
been examining for clues about who tossed eggs over a fence that
splattered onto the next-door house, causing an estimated $20,000 in
damage.
Deputies have also
investigated reports by Bieber's neighbors that he raced his expensive
sports car down the streets of the exclusive Oaks community of
Calabasas, California, but no charges ever resulted.
One neighbor accused
Bieber of spitting in his face during a heated confrontation last March.
Deputies have responded to complaints about loud parties at Bieber's
place.
The Los Angeles County
district attorney's office concluded it couldn't prove the spitting or
speeding cases in court, so it declined to prosecute.
Prosecutors also
rejected a misdemeanor battery complaint from a photographer who accused
Bieber of attacking him in the parking lot of a Calabasas shopping
center as he was taking photos of Bieber and his then-girlfriend, Selena
Gomez, in May 2012.
"We didn't do this search warrant to send a message," Sheriff's Lt. David Thompson said last week. "That's not what we do, but we hope maybe that understanding the gravity of this will change some of the behavior
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