It is believed that the Swedish police found illegal narcotics on Justin Bieber’s tour bus as it was parked outside Stockholm’s Globe Arena, where he was performing.
While close associates to Bieber insisted it was nothing serious and no charges were filed. It is the latest stumble in the teen pop star’s European tour. As at the time of filing this report, Bieber’s publicist had no official comment on the issue.
Police found a small amount of unspecified illegal narcotics on the tour bus that Bieber and about nine others had taken to the arena for the concert Wednesday night, Stockholm police spokesman said.
The Swedish authorities searched the bus at the arena after a police officer smelled marijuana near the vehicle when it was outside a Stockholm hotel. The Bieber team had left the bus before police searched it.
The case is under investigation, but no arrests were made and no charges have been filed. For a charge of possession of narcotics, police must find the drug on the offender, he said.
The Stockholm concert proceeded as scheduled. Bieber’s next concert is on Sunday in St. Petersburg, Russia.
It would be remembered that earlier this month, Bieber drew criticism for a remark he left in the guest book of the Anne Frank House in Amsterdam, Netherlands. He suggested that Frank, the teenage diarist who died in a Nazi concentration camp in 1945, would have been a fan of his.
It is hoped that Bieber doesn’t ply the route of other known artists that went the way of drugs and eventually had their career terminated prematurely, it is yet to be seen how Bieber and his team would spin this.