Justin Timberlake’s Consuming Pal Drove Automotive After DWI Arrest, Cops Let it Happen

Justin Timberlake might have an ace throughout the hole to get his DWI case dismissed … and it’s a woman who took the keys to his car after his arrest … TMZ has realized.

As we reported, Justin was busted for drunk driving ultimate month, after partying with associates at a Sag Harbor resort. Cops say they observed him blow a stop sign and swerve as he was following some associates.

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

Sources with direct knowledge inform TMZ … the auto Justin was following bought right here once more to the place the singer was pulled over. There was a lady and her husband in that car, and the lady acquired out and went as a lot as considered one of many cops and commenced questioning him, asking, “Are you going to arrest Justin Timberlake?”

She then equipped to drive Justin to their dwelling, the place he was going to spend the evening time … in numerous phrases, merely let him go and she or he and her husband would get him residence safely. That approach didn’t work, and Justin was arrested.

Now that is the twist. Our sources say the lady requested cops if she might take Justin’s rental car to her dwelling, supplied that Justin was going to jail. The cops obliged, she acquired in Justin’s car and left.

We’re instructed the lady had arrived at The American Resort 2 hours sooner than Justin and was consuming … and it was apparent she had been consuming. However the two cops who’ve been on the scene let her take the wheel and drive away.

We’re instructed Justin’s lawyer, Edward Burke, Jr. — who’s attempting to get the case dismissed — will argue the 2 youthful cops have been so off of their judgment, they let a person who had clearly been consuming drive away, correct in entrance of their eyes. Within the occasion that they’ve been unable to appropriately take into account her, how might they appropriately take into account him?