Justin Timberlake’s lawyer has said he is looking forward to “vigorously defending” the US singer after he was arrested and charged with driving while intoxicated. The 43-year-old pop star and actor was arrested in the early hours of Tuesday morning in Sag Harbor, a wealthy village in the Hamptons, in New York state, after he failed to maintain his lane of travel and pause at a stop sign, the local police department said. Advertisement Timberlake was held overnight and formally charged with a DWI (driving while intoxicated) misdemeanour before being released, the Suffolk County District Attorney’s Office confirmed.
American singer Justin Timberlake was arrested for driving while intoxicated (Sag Harbor Police Department/PA) In a statement shared to the PA news agency on Wednesday, attorney Edward Burke Jr said: “I look forward to vigorously defending Mr Timberlake on these allegations. Advertisement “I will have a lot to say at the appropriate time but am currently awaiting full discovery from the District Attorney’s office.” Advertisement Timberlake was pulled over on Tuesday at 12.
37am local time after police saw him “failing to stop at a duly posted stop sign and failing to maintain his lane of travel” while driving his 2025 BMW, a statement from Sag Harbor Village Police Department said. An officer who stopped him described his eyes as being “bloodshot and glassy” and said a “strong odour of an alcoholic beverage was emanating from his breath”,.
