Interesting. Turns out the rental company clocked the cars with a gps that recorded speed. Turns out the kid wasn't speeding. How does one get arrested for drag racing a Lamborghini while not speeding nor was he over the blood alcohol limit
Down the rabbit hole we go.......
instead of the news. MSNBC cut off a congresswoman talking about the NSA to discuss this arrest. And now it turns out his blood alchohol level was well below the legal limit, and he was only going 27 mph.
http://www.tmz.com/2014/01/25/justin...-beach-police/
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Justin Bieber -- Cops Claim of Drag Racing Doesn't Hold Water
1/25/2014 1:00 AM PST BY TMZ STAFF
EXCLUSIVE
Miami Beach cops claim Justin Bieber was drag racing at the time of his arrest Thursday ... but the facts seem to show the allegation is MADE UP ... because we've learned they were actually UNDER THE SPEED LIMIT in the middle of the so-called drag race.
According to the police report ... cops spotted Justin and his buddy Khalil drag racing at around 4 AM.
The police report says ... an officer observed the 2 vehicles reaching speeds between 55 and 60 MPH.
Now the problems.
Cops say they noticed the "drag race" on the 2600 block of Pine Tree Drive. Cops were traveling in the opposite direction so they made a U turn and pursued the cars for 15 blocks.
Mind you ... Justin was driving one of the fastest race cars around -- a Lamborghini Gallardo LP550-2 Spyder. Khalil was driving a Ferrari 16M. Cops claim 2 SUVs in Justin's entourage actually blocked off traffic to give the 2 a clear path.
So how could a 15-block drag race in those cars reach speeds of ONLY 60 MPH?
Fact is ... THEY DIDN'T REACH 60. IN FACT THEY DIDN'T REACH 50. THEY DIDN'T EVEN REACH 40.
TMZ has learned ... the place where Justin and Khalil rented the cars attached a GPS device that also tracks speed.
The GPS clocked both cars at 27 MPH at the 3500 block of Pine Tree Drive ... smack in the middle of the so-called "drag race."
There's only one time they ever broke 50 MPH and that was long before the pursuit started. When Justin and Khalil left the club, one car was briefly clocked at 52 MPH and the other 47 MPH. Both drivers slowed down pretty quick and 5 blocks before cops noticed them they were going 34 MPH in a 30 MPH zone. Blocks later, they were steady at 27 MPH.
So it seems cops goosed the facts to justify the stop.
And that's not the only problem with the police report. TMZ broke the story ... Justin's blood alcohol level was .014 -- a barely measurable amount. Yet cops claim Justin reeked of alcohol both at the scene and at the police department.
http://www.tmz.com/2014/01/24/justin...rt-arrest-dui/
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Cops May Have Fudged Police Report
1/24/2014 9:37 AM PST BY TMZ STAFF
EXCLUSIVE
There may be a gigantic hole in the case against Justin Bieber ... because we've now learned the singer had next to NO alcohol in his system yet cops at the scene said he reeked of alcohol.
We have now confirmed Justin's actual blood alcohol level ... it was .014 -- next to nothing. Legal intoxication is .08. Law enforcement sources told TMZ Thursday Bieber had a .04 ... but we've now confirmed that is NOT true. He had a .014 -- an enormous difference.
Someone Justin's size would probably have higher than a .014 with a single beer. So the question ... how could cops say they were overpowered by the smell of alcohol?
According to the police report ... the arresting officer was leaning into the car, talking to Justin just after the stop and the cop says, "I immediately smelled an odor of alcohol eminating [sic] from the driver's breath."
The police report goes on ... Justin was then arrested and taken to a holding facility, where another officer said he smelled "... the odor of an alc bev on his breath."
Justin insisted at the scene he was NOT drunk. Cops say he failed his field sobriety test.
Sources connected to the case tell us ... this could well come down to a credibility case, with Justin's people accusing cops of lying. Fact is ... the Miami Beach PD has had credibility issues in the past. One law enforcement source confided in us ... "That police force has had a zillion problems."