Cop Who Arrested Justin Timberlake Didn’t Know Who He Was
Justin Timberlake’s Hamptons DWI arrest has some more embarrassing details. As we reported, the “Rock Your Body” singer was arrested on DWI charges after having dinner at the American Hotel in Sag Harbor. He was pulled over after leaving the establishment to drive to his friend’s house.
According to Page Six, the father of two refused to take a breathalyzer test when police pulled him over. Sources told the publication that there were “cops stationed outside where he was having dinner.” After JT left, police pulled him over for a traffic violation initially.
As we reported, a police officer saw his 2025 BMW drive through a stop sign and “fail to keep on the right side of the roadway.” The officer said the former boy-bander’s “eyes were bloodshot and glassy, a strong odor of an alcoholic beverage was emanating from his breath, he was unable to divide attention, he had slowed speech, he was unsteady afoot, and he performed poorly on all standardized field sobriety tests.”
Timberlake reportedly told authorities he would not do “a chemical test” to determine his blood-alcohol level once he got to the police station. “I had one martini, and I followed my friends home,” he said, according to the report.
Cop Who Arrested Justin Didn’t Know Who He Was
Page Six‘s source said Timberlake’s friends were pleading with the cops to let him go. Sources say he took a field sobriety test but “refused” a breathalyzer test. The cop who pulled Timberlake over “was so young that he didn’t even know” who the 10-time Grammy winner was. “He didn’t recognize him or his name,” the insider said.
Another source added that “Justin said under his breath, ‘This is going to ruin the tour.’ The cop replied, ‘What tour?’ Justin said, ‘The world tour.’”
Folks had a field day on social media, making fun of Justin in a number of ways, especially with what his field sobriety test would look like. One person said, “Saying ‘this is going to ruin the tour’ after every minor inconvenience I have from now on.” Added another: “This had to have been the funniest thing to have ever happened without being witnessed by the public.” A third added: “There’s a deep satisfaction I get when people don’t recognize a celebrity and they realize they’re washed up.” Another slammed: “dude has one (1) show 31 miles outside the US and he’s calling it a world tour bffr.”
JT has since been released. In a statement shared by police, the pop icon was charged with one count of driving while intoxicated and two citations: one for running a stop sign and one for failure to keep in lane. Justin’s lawyer, Edward Burke Jr., said in a statement to Deadline that he “will have a lot to say at the appropriate time but am currently awaiting full discovery from the District Attorney’s office.”
