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On Tuesday afternoon in Sag Harbor, Janice Yu of WABC-TV was sitting in the passenger seat of a Nissan news van, eating from a bag of Smart Food popcorn. It was as close as she would come to getting to a kernel of news.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe don\u2019t even know who he was with,\u201d she said, referring to the singer and actor Justin Timberlake, who had been arrested<\/a> by a Sag Harbor police officer shortly after midnight on Tuesday and charged with driving while intoxicated.<\/p>\n Ms. Yu<\/a>, a reporter for ABC7 Eyewitness News in New York, was one of many journalists parked along Main Street near the American Hotel, a 19th-century inn where waiters serve Gardiner\u2019s Bay littleneck clams and Long Island duckling confit to boomer stock sultans. It was also where Mr. Timberlake had been partying with friends the night before.<\/p>\n Now it was a muggy and sunny day on the leafy street of this quaint-by-Hamptons-standards onetime whaling village, lined by shops that sell everything from $30 Havaianas flip-flops to $4,600 swivel chairs by Charlotte Perriand. People in Lululemon activewear strolled by, clutching a\u00e7a\u00ed bowls and iced drinks.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n Ms. Yu, who joined the local news team in 2022 after a stint at Fox5 in Atlanta, had on a turquoise and green J. Crew dress. John Sprei, her field producer, was seated behind her in the van, wearing shorts and a T-shirt.<\/p>\n They had scored a copy of the arrest report that was filed in Sag Harbor Village Justice Court earlier that day \u2014 but so had the journalists in other vehicles lining the block, a convoy that included news trucks and vans from CBS, NBC, PIX11, Entertainment Tonight, The Associated Press and CNN.<\/p>\n The police report stated that Mr. Timberlake was driving a gray 2025 BMW after spending some time at the American Hotel. It also said that he hadn\u2019t made it more than a few blocks before he drove through a stop sign on the corner of Madison Street and Jermain, a tree-lined block where the houses do not look like mansions.<\/p>\n He refused to take a breath test three times. \u201cI had one martini and followed my friends home,\u201d he told the arresting officer, according to the report. Mr. Timberlake \u201cperformed poorly\u201d in various field sobriety tests, the report said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n He was arrested and taken to the police station, right behind the American Hotel, on Division Street. There, he handed over his wedding ring, his phone, his baseball cap, his watch, his wallet, a vape pen, and green and blue papers, the sort used for rolling marijuana, according to the police report. (In 2011, the singer told Playboy that he liked cannabis because it helps him to \u201cstop thinking.\u201d)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n A number of news crews soon descended on Sag Harbor. At roughly 9:30 a.m., nearly nine hours after he was taken into police custody, Mr. Timberlake left the station in handcuffs. Tabloid photographers captured him looking glum after his overnight stay. He headed toward the Sag Harbor Village Justice Court on Main Street, less than 500 feet from the American Hotel, for his arraignment.<\/p>\n