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Newsjock

(11,733 posts)
Fri Jan 31, 2014, 08:35 PM Jan 2014

Justin Bieber's Plane Held in NJ on Suspicion of Marijuana

Source: ABC News

While heading to New Jersey on Super Bowl weekend, Justin Bieber's private plane was stopped and held at Teterboro Airport this afternoon on suspicion that marijuana was on board, sources confirmed to ABC News.

The sources said Bieber was on the plane that was held on the tarmac. A source said the singer left the plane and was taken to the customs terminal at the airport, which serves private aviation and is packed with planes coming in for the big game.

The plane arrived Friday just before 3 p.m. from Toronto when inspectors with Customs and Border Protection thought they smelled marijuana and began a search, the sources said.

Bieber is being interviewed and the plane may be turned around, sources add.

Read more: http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/justin-biebers-plane-held-nj-suspicion-marijuana/story?id=22320856

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Justin Bieber's Plane Held in NJ on Suspicion of Marijuana (Original Post) Newsjock Jan 2014 OP
A little misbehaving Criminal warrant46 Jan 2014 #1
don't tell me CatWoman Jan 2014 #2
Hey Bieber Dude... get yourself a cardboard empty paper towell roll and these Ellipsis Jan 2014 #3
Zoob Tube to the rescue Taitertots Jan 2014 #13
"The Pout" was the name in our dorm back in the day. Ellipsis Jan 2014 #16
Just about everyone I've ever talked to has a different name for it Taitertots Jan 2014 #17
we called it a Spoof dionysus Jan 2014 #19
explain please ThomThom Feb 2014 #33
Yep, that's pretty much it. EOTE Feb 2014 #35
Or one of these ellisonz Feb 2014 #38
Someone is fed up with Biebers antics. Egnever Jan 2014 #4
Marijuana should be decriminalized nationally, in the USA and Canada. delrem Jan 2014 #5
Bieber is a spoiled, rich little snot. TheMathieu Jan 2014 #6
He might well be now.. HipChick Jan 2014 #7
poor Bieber can't catch a break lately steve2470 Jan 2014 #8
Poor thing... HipChick Jan 2014 #11
I think he was smuggling eggs. rug Jan 2014 #9
"Juevos for Senor Beiber!" Warren DeMontague Jan 2014 #15
They need to kick him and his money out of the country Fumesucker Jan 2014 #10
his plane is clean ProdigalJunkMail Jan 2014 #12
Couldn'tin Care Lessber. Warren DeMontague Jan 2014 #14
Guess he was having his own super bowl? Lancero Jan 2014 #18
He wanted to get an early start celebrating the "Pot" Bowl. nt bluestate10 Jan 2014 #20
Packa Bowl Initech Jan 2014 #23
Thinking back to how wild I was at that age Vinnie From Indy Jan 2014 #21
I guess thanks to my parents and private school, even at that young of an age DebJ Feb 2014 #25
Canadian grass! Ah, assholes! Initech Jan 2014 #22
What kind of idiot wants their pilot to be high while landing the plane? DebJ Feb 2014 #24
The answer is people on DU davidpdx Feb 2014 #27
LOL DebJ Feb 2014 #31
I don't want them high when landing, takeoff and during the flight is fine snooper2 Feb 2014 #32
Marijuana? BeyondGeography Feb 2014 #26
Just heard this, what an idiot davidpdx Feb 2014 #28
smoking is not allowed on commercial flights. uncle ray Feb 2014 #34
Well a small, completely enclosed, pressurized space can cause issues. Glassunion Feb 2014 #36
Legalize it. Iggo Feb 2014 #29
this morning they were saying the pilots put on their O2 masks to avoid contact high spanone Feb 2014 #30
So that's what they mean by The Mile High Club... CJCRANE Feb 2014 #37
You have to be caught selling, buying or possessing illegal drugs to be busted rocktivity Feb 2014 #39

ThomThom

(1,486 posts)
33. explain please
Thu Feb 6, 2014, 12:56 PM
Feb 2014

I'm old and don't know the latest tricks. Just put a dryer sheet in a tube? Does it work for cigarette smoke?

EOTE

(13,409 posts)
35. Yep, that's pretty much it.
Thu Feb 6, 2014, 01:13 PM
Feb 2014

And it does work for cigarettes, but they have a far less incriminating odor. In my college days I went a little fancier and used a ~20oz Gatorade container and poked some holes on the bottom with my soldering iron. I then would stuff in a few fabric softener sheets and exhale into that. Once the sheets start getting brown from smoke, replace them. Makes your room smell like fresh laundry rather than bud/tobacco.

delrem

(9,688 posts)
5. Marijuana should be decriminalized nationally, in the USA and Canada.
Fri Jan 31, 2014, 08:50 PM
Jan 2014

I'm happy that some states are paving the way.

steve2470

(37,457 posts)
8. poor Bieber can't catch a break lately
Fri Jan 31, 2014, 08:57 PM
Jan 2014

"Long arm of the law" and all that. Good luck and time to shape up, Justin.

Fumesucker

(45,851 posts)
10. They need to kick him and his money out of the country
Fri Jan 31, 2014, 09:02 PM
Jan 2014

We certainly don't need rich Canadians spending their money in America, let him take all that filthy cash back to where he can get free health care, the ungrateful little Communist.



Vinnie From Indy

(10,820 posts)
21. Thinking back to how wild I was at that age
Fri Jan 31, 2014, 10:53 PM
Jan 2014

and then thinking about having unlimited money and no supervision - I wouldn't have lasted a year. I hope this young man can survive the next decade of his life.

DebJ

(7,699 posts)
25. I guess thanks to my parents and private school, even at that young of an age
Wed Feb 5, 2014, 08:00 AM
Feb 2014

if I had gained access to that wealth I'd be recklessly spending it all...on helping alleviate
some of the hideous suffering in this world. Give some people clean water, or food,
or education, or shelter. THAT'S the high I've always been taught to strive for.
I was also taught that YOU suffer when you become a pleasure-seeking hedonist.
Thank you Mom, Dad, school and church. I'm happier than Beiber.

DebJ

(7,699 posts)
24. What kind of idiot wants their pilot to be high while landing the plane?
Wed Feb 5, 2014, 07:51 AM
Feb 2014

According to multiple law enforcement sources, the leased, luxurious Gulfstream IV on which the 19-year-old Canadian pop star, his father and an entourage of 10 friends traveled was so full of marijuana smoke that the pilots were forced to wear oxygen masks.

“The captain of the flight stated that he warned the passengers, including Bieber, on several occasions to stop smoking marijuana,” says the official report of the incident. “The captain also stated he needed to request that the passengers stop their harassing behavior toward the flight attendant and after several warnings asked the flight attendant to stay with him near the cockpit to avoid any further abuse.”
http://www.nbcnews.com/news/investigations/flying-high-exclusive-inside-story-biebers-pot-plane-n22056

This kid isn't going to stop until he is behind bars. What a moron.

 

snooper2

(30,151 posts)
32. I don't want them high when landing, takeoff and during the flight is fine
Thu Feb 6, 2014, 12:01 PM
Feb 2014

Just let it mostly wear off before landing that's the tricky part

davidpdx

(22,000 posts)
28. Just heard this, what an idiot
Wed Feb 5, 2014, 11:25 PM
Feb 2014

Pilots had to put on their oxygen masks. Smoking of any kind is not allowed on flights. It's not even a marijuana issue.

uncle ray

(3,155 posts)
34. smoking is not allowed on commercial flights.
Thu Feb 6, 2014, 01:05 PM
Feb 2014

on chartered planes, it's up to the operator. many have planes designated as smoking planes. do you really think the 1%, or even the 5% suffer smoke free on their private jets? beiber should have requested a smoking plane.

i'm sure the pilots used their masks simply out of an abundance of caution, so there would be no chance of them testing positive for THC, not because the smoke cloud was so thick in the flight deck that they could not breathe.

Glassunion

(10,201 posts)
36. Well a small, completely enclosed, pressurized space can cause issues.
Thu Feb 6, 2014, 03:24 PM
Feb 2014

These pilots could lose their license (depending on their classification), and their jobs if they test positive.

Smoking pot on a small plane, especially after being asked to stop, is a selfish, asshole thing to do.

If I were the pilot, I'd have grounded the plane and had them arrested.

rocktivity

(44,572 posts)
39. You have to be caught selling, buying or possessing illegal drugs to be busted
Fri Feb 7, 2014, 01:43 AM
Feb 2014

The pilots should have made an emergency landing (there WAS something wrong with the plane, after all) when they could have been busted for possession.


rocktivity

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