Bieber must shell out $80,900 in egg-throwing case
Published: 10 Jul. 2014, 20:24
In this 2013 file photo, Justin Bieber performs. He will be charged in a January egg-throwing incident that damaged a neighbor’s home, prosecutors said. [AP/NEWSIS]
Bieber also was ordered to complete five days of community labor and a 12-week anger-management program, and stay away from the victim and his family for two years.
The 20-year-old Grammy-nominated singer was not present for the arraignment at Superior Court in Van Nuys. Bieber’s lawyer, Shawn Holley, entered the plea on his behalf.
A spokeswoman for Bieber said he’s glad to have the matter resolved and behind him. She added that he will move forward and focus on his career and music.
A hearing to check on Bieber’s progress toward completing his sentence was scheduled for Aug. 12.
Prosecutors spent months deciding whether to file charges after the January incident. They considered felony charges because the damage was said to be more than $400, the threshold for a felony.
Deputy District Attorney Alan Yochelson said Wednesday he was satisfied with the misdemeanor charge and called egg throwing an “extremely immature and a silly act.”
The singer’s Calabasas mansion was searched Jan. 14 and detectives later filed a search warrant to obtain images from Bieber’s Instagram account to match them to surveillance footage taken from his home. A detective wrote that a person matching Bieber’s description was seen high-fiving his friends after running toward a neighbor’s home, but footage of the egg attack was not captured.
Bieber was not arrested during the search of his home, but his friend and personal manager, Xavier Dominique Smith, was charged with felony drug possession. Smith, an aspiring rapper who goes by the name Lil Za, pleaded no contest to felony possession of Ecstasy and was sentenced to probation and a drug treatment program.
The singer faces two other cases in Florida and Toronto. A Miami court has set a trial date this month for his DUI case, which also includes charges that he resisted arrest without violence and was driving with an expired license.
A preliminary toxicology report showed that the singer tested positive for marijuana and the anti-anxiety drug Xanax after his arrest, but no other illicit drugs were found in his system.
The singer turned himself in to Toronto authorities Jan. 29 on a charge that he assaulted a limo driver in late December. Another of Bieber’s attorneys, Howard Weitzman, has said that Bieber is innocent in that case.
AP
with the Korea JoongAng Daily
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