BY BARRY PADDOCK , ERIK BADIA AND NANCY DILLON / NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
PUBLISHED: FRIDAY, JANUARY 31, 2014, 4:33 PM
UPDATED: FRIDAY, JANUARY 31, 2014, 6:25 PM
An unidentified source said the search came up empty-handed, so the singer, his dad and several friends were sent on their merry way.
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Justin Bieber and his entourage were reportedly sent along their way after cops searched their jet.
Was Justin Bieber flying high?
The singer's private jet touched down at Teterboro Airport Friday afternoon ahead of Sunday's Super Bowl, and authorities quickly detained it after detecting a strong odor of pot wafting from the vessel.
A canine team sniffed the cabin for cannabis as part of a U.S. Customs search, a source told the Daily News.
About a half-dozen vehicles surrounded the aromatic aircraft on the tarmac.
According to TMZ.com, the search came up empty-handed, so the “Baby” singer, his dad and several friends were free to go and attend the big game.
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A canine team sniffed the jet for pot as part of a U.S. Customs search.
The latest stop on Bieber's regin of terror came just hours after a report that radio volume triggered the limo driver assault now causing legal static for the singer in Canada.
The pop phenom was riding in a rented limo with five members of his entourage Dec. 30 when he wanted the cabin music turned up, unidentified sources told TMZ.
The driver complied, but not enough for the Biebs, so an altercation erupted, TMZ said.
In the course of the argument, a man struck the driver in the back of his head “several times,” Toronto Police previously said.
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Skateboards were part of the luggage loaded in a minibus along with the passengers as they left the plane.
Bieber, 19, was charged with the assault Wednesday night and had to weave through a crush of media and fans outside a Toronto police station to get booked and fingerprinted.
He was given a March 10 court date and released.
An unidentified source close to Bieber reportedly told TMZ that the hard-partying hitmaker never laid a hand on the driver – that it was one of his friends who turned violent.
The source would not reveal the identity of the friend, TMZ said.
JUSTINBIEBER VIA INSTAGRAM
Justin Bieber posted an Instagram photo of himself and a friend in a car on Friday.
“We anticipate that this matter will be treated as a summary offense, the equivalent of a misdemeanor in the United States,” Bieber’s lawyer Howard Weitzman said in statement to The News.
“Our position is the Mr. Bieber is innocent,” Weitzman said.
Bieber’s Toronto bust came after he got popped for DUI in Miami Beach last week.
Cops said the Canadian pop star was drag racing a loaner Lamborghini on a residential street shortly before he cussed out his arresting officer with several F-bombs.
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A private jet that was reportedly carrying Justin Bieber and his entourage on the tarmac at Teterboro Airport in New Jersey.
The singer tested positive for marijuana and Xanax and blew 0.014 on a Breathalyzer test, prosecutors and police confirmed Thursday.
He pleaded not guilty Wednesday ahead of his formal arraignment set for Valentine’s Day.
The once squeaky-clean singer also is the subject of a felony vandalism case in southern California. A dozen deputies with the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department raided his mansion Jan. 14 looking for evidence to support the claim he egged a neighbor’s house on Jan. 9, causing some $20,000 in damage.
One legal expert said it’s likely Bieber will have to plead “no contest” to at least one of the misdemeanors in Miami Beach to avoid trial – and that would almost certainly land him on probation.
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'I have the greatest Dad in the world. He's taught me how to love, learn, and stay true to myself. I will forever be grateful because he was my superehero #batman,' Justin Bieber captioned an Instagram photo of his dad.
“He might be skirting things right now, but he’s on thin ice. Even one no contest plea on a misdemeanor will mean he’ll be regulated with probation, and if he violates that, then he could be thrown in jail,” Brian Claypool, a criminal lawyer in Pasadena, Calif., said Friday.
An online petition asking President Obama to deport the “reckless” recording artist garnered enough support on WhiteHouse.gov Wednesday – more than 100,000 digital signatures – to earn an official Oval Office review.
Obama spokesman Jay Carney had no comment Friday other than saying a response of some type should be expected.
“That process will occur, as is our commitment,” he said. “There will be a response when the threshold is crossed. That response will come, I’m sure, relatively soon. I don’t have one now,” he said.
The petition had more than 224,000 digital signatures as of Friday afternoon.
A counter-petition to “stop” the proposed deportation had 5,785 signatures.
Meanwhile in Miami Beach, an unidentified female officer is the subject of an internal affairs investigation after she allegedly tried to snap an unauthorized photo of Bieber in custody, police said.
“The officer is still working pending the outcome. We’re investigating her for conduct unbecoming of an officer,” Sgt. Robert Hernandez told The News. “She didn’t accomplish the photo. The Sergeant in charge saw what was happening and told her to leave before any picture was taken.”
ndillon@nydailynews.com
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