Britney Spears charged with misdemeanor DUI involving drugs and alcohol

Britney Spears has been charged with driving nether the power of drugs and alcohol, a misdemeanor, according to the Ventura County territory attorney’s office.

On Thursday, prosecutors filed 1 misdemeanor DUI number against the “Toxic” hitmaker, saying she drove nether the combined power of intoxicant and drugs. They did not authorities what drugs the popular prima was accused of taking.

An arraignment is slated for Monday. Spears is not required to look astatine the hearing.

According to the territory attorney’s office, if a suspect has nary anterior DUI past and the incidental did not impact a precocious humor intoxicant level, a clang oregon an injury, prosecutors typically connection what is known arsenic a “wet reckless” — oregon a plea bargain wherever the complaint is reduced to reckless driving with a enactment that intoxicant oregon drugs were involved.

“This benignant of solution is common, peculiarly erstwhile a suspect demonstrates self-motivation to code underlying issues done rehabilitation oregon a cause and intoxicant attraction program,” the D.A.’s bureau said. “Under that offer, a suspect is placed connected probation for 12 months, receives recognition for immoderate clip spent successful custody, is required to implicit a DUI class, and indispensable wage state-mandated fines and fees.”

This connection volition beryllium extended to Spears connected Monday, according to the territory attorney’s office.

Last month, Spears was arrested successful Westlake Village by the California Highway Patrol. The singer, 44, was pulled implicit by the CHP portion driving a achromatic BMW 430i aft dispatchers received reports of the conveyance being driven erratically and astatine precocious speeds. Spears was alone.

She was booked aboriginal the adjacent greeting and, according to a instrumentality enforcement source, Spears’ humor was drawn astatine Los Robles Regional Medical Center. A substance was besides recovered successful the car that night, and the conveyance was searched again the adjacent greeting astatine Roy’s Towing successful Thousand Oaks, a root told The Times.

“This was an unfortunate incidental that is wholly inexcusable,” a typical for Spears told The Times successful a connection past month. “Britney is going to instrumentality the close steps and comply with the instrumentality and hopefully this tin beryllium the archetypal measurement successful a agelong overdue alteration that needs to hap successful Britney’s life. Hopefully she tin get the enactment she needs during this hard time.

“Her boys are going to beryllium spending clip with her,” the connection continued. “Her loved ones are going to travel up with an overdue needed program to acceptable her up for occurrence for well-being.”

Spears subsequently checked herself into a attraction installation voluntarily, a typical for Spears confirmed.

Christie D’Zurilla and Richard Winton contributed to this report.