Police raided singer Justin Bieber's house following an egg-throwing complaint by his neighbor and busted drugs, Tuesday.
Bieber's neighbor reported to the police that his house was egged by the 19-year-old singer. Following this, the police went to his Calabasas house and found drugs in his home.
The police authorities were looking for "video surveillance or other relevant evidence" about the egging incident. They classified it as a criminal act as the neighbor reported damage worth $20,000, reported the Los Angeles Times.
Sheriff's officials said the incident had been classified as a felony because the homeowner reported the value of the damage to his house at $20,000. The police officials also arrested Bieber's friend Lil Za during the raid.
"I get that the eggs don't seem that significant, but it does rise to the level of a felony," Lt. Dave Thompson said Tuesday.
However, the officials said that they will have to conduct tests to know the kind of drugs they found. "You have to analyze any evidence to see what comes forward," spokesman Steve Whitmore told the LA Times. "It may not be that particular narcotic."
Whitmore explained that the drugs could possibly be Ecstasy or Molly, an artificial stimulant known as a pure form of MDMA, the main ingredient in Ecstasy, reported the newspaper. "Let's just wait and see, but we're fairly certain it's a controlled substance," Whitmore said.
According to the Fox News, a few legal experts have termed the entire incident as an "embarrassing" waste of taxpayers' money. The authorities got 11 patrol cars to search the singer's house.
"Cops are going to extraordinarily lengths to try to prove what is a relatively minor crime. Rest assured if the average person has their house egged, cops will not respond with the felony warrants and a battering ram," California-based criminal defense attorney, David Wohl, told FOX411. "This is a frankly embarrassing response by cops who appear to be hell bent on finally making something stick to this Teflon pop star."
Another legal expert Leo Terrell of CleartheCourt.com, said that the police are mostly interested in celebrity cases. He said Bieber is not a hardcore criminal and the cops "were all for the cameras." "It is hard to estimate how much (the raid cost the tax payer) but the search warrant means a criminal investigation has been opened up by the Sheriff's department, a detective was used to obtain a search warrant, a judge had to sign off on the search warrant, etc. I would expect this could be $15,000 to $25,000 expenditure just based on the number of cops involved," Terrell told Fox News.
