The park ranger who arrested Bruce Springsteen was on foot patrol when he mentioned he watched the rock icon drink a shot of Patron tequila.
He stopped Mr. Springsteen not removed from the Sandy Hook Lighthouse in a nationwide park on the northern coast of New Jersey, in keeping with a report filed after the musician’s Nov. 14 arrest.
“Springsteen claimed that he had two photographs of tequila within the final 20 minutes,” the officer, recognized as R.L. Hayes, wrote. The musician, he added, smelled “strongly of alcohol” and had “glassy eyes.”
The Nationwide Park Service ranger reported conducting a collection of area sobriety checks. Throughout them, Mr. Springsteen was “visibly swaying backwards and forwards,” Ranger Hayes wrote, and took 45 steps throughout a walk-and-turn take a look at somewhat than the 18 he’d been instructed to take.
Mr. Springsteen, 71, additionally “refused to supply a pattern on the preliminary breath take a look at,” the report states.
That’s the place it ends.
There is no such thing as a point out of Mr. Springsteen’s blood-alcohol degree. Two individuals near Mr. Springsteen who spoke on situation of anonymity as a result of they weren’t approved to talk publicly mentioned that it was 0.02 p.c, properly beneath New Jersey’s 0.08 p.c authorized restrict.
The Park Service has not responded to requests for extra details about Mr. Springsteen’s blood-alcohol degree.
It was not clear how lengthy after his encounter with the park ranger the take a look at was carried out.
The Park Service has mentioned that Mr. Springsteen, who was driving a Triumph bike, was charged with drunken driving, reckless driving and consuming alcohol in a closed space. However it has to date refused to launch the complete arrest report. Ranger Hayes’s report — a “assertion of possible trigger” — was included in federal court docket paperwork launched Thursday afternoon.
Mr. Springsteen’s arrest was not revealed till Wednesday, days after he appeared in his first industrial ever — driving a Jeep, in a Tremendous Bowl advert that by Sunday evening was the second-most-watched game-day spot on YouTube.
Mr. Springsteen’s lawyer, Mitchell J. Ansell, couldn’t be instantly reached for remark. The musician has not addressed the fees publicly.
On Wednesday, Jeep eliminated the advert from its social media websites.
“Its message of neighborhood and unity is as related as ever,” a spokeswoman for Jeep, Diane Morgan, mentioned in a press release. “As is the message that ingesting and driving can by no means be condoned.”
Caryn Ganz and Ben Sisario contributed reporting.