Justin Timberlake's ingesting buddy drove automotive after DUI arrest, police let it occur

Justin Timberlake might have a trump card up his sleeve to get his drunk driving case dismissed… and it's a lady who took the keys to his automotive following his arrest… TMZ has realized.

As we reported, Justin was arrested for drunk driving final month after partying with pals at a Sag Harbor resort. Officers say they noticed him run a cease signal and swerve as he adopted some pals.

After he was arrested, police mentioned he failed a number of sobriety exams and in addition smelled of alcohol. He refused to blow right into a breathalyzer take a look at, claiming he had solely had one martini.

Sources with direct data inform TMZ … the automotive that was following Justin got here again to the scene the place the singer was pulled over. There was a lady and her husband in that automotive, and the lady acquired out and walked as much as one of many officers and began questioning him, asking, “Are you going to arrest Justin Timberlake?”

She then provided to drive Justin to their home the place he would spend the night time…in different phrases, simply let him go and she or he and her husband would get him house safely. That technique didn't work and Justin was arrested.

And right here's the factor. In keeping with our sources, the lady requested the police if she may drive Justin's rental automotive to her home, since Justin was going to jail. The police complied, she acquired in Justin's automotive and left.

We're instructed the lady arrived at The American Resort 2 hours earlier than Justin and had been ingesting…and it was clear she had been ingesting. But the two officers on scene let her take the wheel and drive away.

We hear that Justin's lawyer, Edward Burke, Jr. — who’s making an attempt to get the case dismissed — will argue that the 2 younger officers had been so out of judgment that they allowed an individual who had clearly been ingesting to drive away proper in entrance of them. In the event that they couldn't choose her correctly, how may they choose him correctly?

Burke will make this argument to the choose as a part of his movement to dismiss the case.