Oats your experience with this is instructive. And per this Ledger story, usually summonses there don't become public. Someone leaked it. Then Bruce's camp, "a music industry source" leaked his alcohol reading. And I continue to say, he got back on the bike, started the engine-and that justified a reckless driving summons? Huh? He started it recklessly?
Updated Feb 11, 2021; Posted Feb 11, 2021
"Bruce Springsteen was “visibly swaying back and forth,” had glassy eyes and smelled strongly of alcohol after consuming a shot of Patron Tequila, according to a federal violation notice filed on Thursday.
The sparse, six-page notice and statements of probable cause that was docketed in U.S. District Court in New Jersey offered new details in the months-old arrest, which was only confirmed on Wednesday by the National Park Service.
In the filing, a Park Service officer who issued the violations last November said he saw Springsteen take the drink a little after 4 p.m. on a Saturday afternoon, get on his Triumph motorcycle and then start the engine, before he was approached.
“I contacted Springsteen and informed him alcohol is prohibited at Sandy Hook,” officer R.L. Hayes, wrote in a statement of probable cause. “The Patron bottle that the shot was poured out of was completely empty.”
Springsteen told the officer he had “two shots of tequila in the last 20 minutes.”
The New York Post published a report based on a music industry source that Springsteen was ticketed after taking a shot with fans while he sat on his motorcycle at Sandy Hook. and the Asbury Park Press reported, based on a source, that his blood alcohol was well below the legal limit.
Hayes said the musician was put through a series of field sobriety tests, and claimed that he smelled strongly of alcohol and had glassy eyes.
“Springsteen was visibly swaying back and forth while I observed his eyes,” said Hayes. “Springsteen took 45 total steps during the walk and turn instead of the instructed 18.”
He added that Springsteen also refused to provide a sample on the preliminary breath test.
The 71-year-old rock legend and Freehold native had been charged last fall of driving while intoxicated, reckless driving, and drinking in an area where alcohol is prohibited. But the matter never came to the attention of the public until days after Springsteen appeared in a high-profile ad for automaker Jeep during the Super Bowl, with a message of national unity amid the country’s polarized political divisions.
The television ad, his first product endorsement, was filmed in Kansas and urged people to find common ground. Days later, an unidentified source leaked the news of Springsteen’s DUI charges to the celebrity website TMZ.com.
After the story broke, Jeep announced it would pull the Super Bowl ad, issuing a statement that said it “would be inappropriate for us to comment on the details of a matter we have only read about and we cannot substantiate.” But the company added, “it’s also right that we pause our Big Game commercial until the actual facts can be established.”
Springsteen has not commented on the matter and his attorney on Thursday did not respond to requests for comment.
The Nov. 14 arrest occurred in Sandy Hook, a part of the federal Gateway National Recreation Area on the New Jersey coast at the northeast tip of Monmouth County, a spokeswoman for the National Park Service had confirmed on Wednesday.
“Springsteen was cooperative throughout the process,” Brenda Ling said in a statement.
Why the matter stayed well below the radar for so long may be due in part to the jurisdictional bounds of Gateway.
The sprawling area spans 27,000 acres from Sandy Hook in New Jersey to Breezy Point in New York, and is policed by the National Park Service whose park rangers are federal law enforcement officers. However, violations at Sandy Hook —such as drunken driving and other traffic matters — are run through U.S. District Court in Newark and adjudicated in a part of the federal courts known as enclave court. Unlike tickets handled in a New Jersey town’s municipal court, tickets issued by rangers are typically not public record, according to a spokesman for the U.S. Attorney’s office.
A hearing had been scheduled this week for Wednesday, but had been delayed to later in the month.
Springsteen lives in Colts Neck, about 12 miles away from Sandy Hook, and is no stranger to the area, where he has used its beaches as backdrops for several music and film projects, including the album cover for 1987′s “Tunnel of Love.” "
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