Rich Peoples' Problems

[phillygirl]

Justin Bieber friend arrested after police raid star's home; cocaine in 'plain view'

One person was arrested in Justin Bieber's home after Los Angeles law enforcement executed a felony search warrant early Tuesday morning, showing up to his Calabasas, Calif., mansion with 12 detectives in about eight patrol cars.

According to TMZ, Bieber’s longtime friend rapper Lil Za was arrested for narcotics possession.
Lt. David Thompson told reporters at a press conference that cocaine was in plain view when deputies entered the home.
The Sheriff’s Dept. was investigating if Bieber was connected to an egg-throwing incident last week that caused damage to a neighbor’s home. They obtained a felony search warrant and entered the home at about 8 a.m. PST.
Thompson said that the team did not know what they would encounter at the home.
“It’s always better to air on the side of safety,” he said. “We did contact seven or eight people in the house so I was thankful we had 12 detectives.”
The search comes just a few days after a neighbor called police claiming that the pop star pelted his home with eggs.
Thompson said they were searching for any evidence that connected Bieber to the incident.
“The houses in that neighborhood are of a quality that any damage is going to be extensive,” he said, adding that the damage to the neighbor’s property was “in the thousands.”
He said while the search was solely related to the egging, he hoped it would curb some of the pop singer's habits.
“We hope maybe understanding the gravity of this will change some of the behavior,” Thompson said. “We hope that we can give the neighborhood the quality of life that they deserve.”

12 detectives because some rich person's house got egged?

[Adam]

I was reading about this just before I left the office. I'm guessing that the cops were just itching for a good reason to get into that house under a legal pretext.

First of all, as far as the egging is concerned, while it sounds like no particularly big deal, apparently the little punk decided to (apparently intentionally) target a quite expensive stretch of hand-troweled artisan stucco or some such, and repairing it will be quite expensive indeed. Whatever this is, it's a lot more than washing and slapping on some new paint, apparently. Hence why this was considered a felony rather than just misdemeanor property damage or whatever. When you egg a multi-million-dollar mansion, you're probably going to more than a couple of hundred dollars in damage.

Second, I've seen a little of it in the past, but reading deeper into this today, it appears that Bieber has been a real terror in that neighborhood ever since he moved in there, everything from wild, loud, drug-fueled parties to drag-racing his Ferrari inside this gated community to threatening neighbors, to include apparently at least one instance of him spitting on some elderly couple who committed the heinous crime of walking past his house on the sidewalk. So the little punk bastard, by all accounts, is just ruining the lives of the people who were unfortunate enough to have him move in next door. Having spent several years living next door to a crazy person, I can certainly see the neighbors getting more than fed up and demanded that the cops show up with some force behind them.

At this point I'm just wondering how much he's going to have to pay off whoever was the fall guy for his coke.

[Gingersnap]

Bieber's problem is that he doesn't know enough to pay off people. He's too dumb or badly managed to realize that rocker boi antics require large sums of liberally applied cash.

I kind of think Biebs and his Belibers have jumped the shark.

[Adam]

Bieber's problem is that he doesn't know enough to pay off people. He's too dumb or badly managed to realize that rocker boi antics require large sums of liberally applied cash.

I kind of think Biebs and his Belibers have jumped the shark.

We've got a lower class of rock star these days, I guess. The British rock stars, and indeed most of the American rock stars of yore, were at least considerate enough to get a farm out in the middle of nowhere so that when they threw their wild parties, at least they wouldn't bother other people.

[Billy Jingo]

Our house got egged once. It cost $300 to replace a pane in the door that was cracked.

There was only one patrol car, though. We wouldn't have even called them but we knew who did it, and much like Beiber, he was a problem in the neighborhood. Which isn't rich. So I guess it's a not rich problem too. Only fewer patrol cars.

[gary m]

“It’s always better to air on the side of safety,” he said. “We did contact seven or eight people in the house so I was thankful we had 12 detectives.”

I always thought it was "err on the side of safety".

I guess I was wrong, but how do you air on the side of safety? Compressor, air pump?

[scott]

Bieber's problem is that he doesn't know enough to pay off people. He's too dumb or badly managed to realize that rocker boi antics require large sums of liberally applied cash.

I kind of think Biebs and his Belibers have jumped the shark.

You can't pay off Bieber's neighbors. These are incredibly wealthy people.

[Gingersnap]

You can't pay off Bieber's neighbors. These are incredibly wealthy people.

LOL! The rich enjoy graft as much as anybody does. They just hold out for more.

[Celeste Chalfonte]

I always thought it was "err on the side of safety".

I guess I was wrong, but how do you air on the side of safety? Compressor, air pump?

I'm going to go with the cop probably knowing the right word...MAYBE the print reporter knowing the right word...but definitiely the paper relying on spellcheck instead of paying professional proofreaders, so you get what you pay for.

[Adam]

This is just dumb:

Attorney Leo Terrell of CleartheCourt.com said law enforcement likes to make examples of high profile celebrities, hence the show of force.

“Justin Bieber is not a hard-nose criminal or accused of having a dangerous weapon. Thus, the 11 cops were all for the cameras,” he said. “It is hard to estimate how much (the raid cost the tax payer) but the search warrant means a criminal investigation has been opened up by the Sheriff’s department, a detective was used to obtain a search warrant, a judge had to sign off on the search warrant, etc. I would expect this could be $15,000 to $25,000 expenditure just based on the number of cops involved.”

Well that's just absurd. That's assuming that these cops would have somehow not been on the payroll but for Justin Bieber, would not have been out driving around in black-and-whites, etc. But for maybe a couple of bucks' worth of gas to possibly drive out to this house that they might not have otherwise done, these were people who were drawing salaries anyway. To claim that having a few cops at Bieber's house but nowhere else somehow cost L.A. County $20K is asinine on its face. This guy should be ashamed of himself.

[Celeste Chalfonte]

This is just dumb:



Well that's just absurd. That's assuming that these cops would have somehow not been on the payroll but for Justin Bieber, would not have been out driving around in black-and-whites, etc. But for maybe a couple of bucks' worth of gas to possibly drive out to this house that they might not have otherwise done, these were people who were drawing salaries anyway. To claim that having a few cops at Bieber's house but nowhere else somehow cost L.A. County $20K is asinine on its face. This guy should be ashamed of himself.

I think he's probably talking more about allocation of the $15-$25K rather than implying that it wouldn't have been sent at all absent the raid.

[Adam]

Drunk, stoned, on anti-depressants, and drag-racing a Lamborghini.

Why did Paul Walker have to be the one to die in a fiery crash?

[Billy Jingo]

Weird. The absolute last thing pot made me want to do was drive fast. Hell, drive at all.

[Adam]

Thinks that make you go :

[Adam]

TMZ has released a picture from Bieber's arrest: