Justin Timberlake’s Drinking Pal Drove Car After DWI Arrest, Cops Let it Happen

Justin Timberlake may 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 discovered.

As we reported, Justin was busted for drunk driving final month, after partying with buddies at a Sag Harbor resort. Cops say they noticed him blow a cease signal and swerve as he was following some buddies.

After he was stopped, cops say he failed a number of sobriety discipline assessments and likewise smelled of alcohol. He refused to blow right into a Breathalyzer, and claimed he solely drank one martini.

Sources with direct information inform TMZ … the automotive Justin was following got here again to the place the singer was pulled over. There was a girl and her husband in that automotive, and the girl acquired 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 evening … 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, on condition that Justin was going to jail. The cops obliged, she acquired in Justin’s automotive and left.

We’re instructed the girl had arrived at The American Lodge 2 hours earlier than Justin and was consuming … and it was obvious she had been consuming. But the two cops who have been on the scene let her take the wheel and drive away.

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 consuming 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?