The Gen Z cop who did not acknowledge Justin Timberlake when he pulled him over for allegedly drunk driving in Sag Harbor is a rookie officer who’s already made a reputation for himself within the ritzy Hamptons city regardless of becoming a member of the pressure simply three months in the past.
Officer Michael Arkinson, who turns 24 this month, pulled Timberlake over on Monday night time after allegedly watching him blow a cease signal and swerve in the appropriate lane.
In his stories, he talked about Timberlake being unsteady on his ft and refusing a breath check.
Hilariously, he is so younger he did not appear to know who Timberlake was.
Arkinson wasn’t even born when Timberlake turned a member of the boy band N’Sync in 1995.
By 2001, Timberlake was a rising star as a result of group’s signature hit, ‘Bye Bye Bye’; Arkinson, who’s the son of an electrician and college trainer, was only one.
However within the three brief months he is been on the pressure, he is already turn into recognized for his pull-over makes an attempt, incomes himself a nickname of ‘the Sag Harbor Nazi’ and a ‘little red-headed dips**t’ among the many Hamptons’ rich residents.
Michael Arkinson, who turns 24 this month, of the Sag Harbor Village Police Division did not know who the 43-year-old ‘Attractive Again’ singer was when he pulled him over early Tuesday morning
Timberlake was booked into Sag Harbor Police Station
Spencer, a author from Shelter Island, is one driver who claims he is had an disagreeable encounter with Arkinson. He was not too long ago looking for a parking spot earlier than assembly a pal for dinner in Sag Harbor when he carried out a fast U-turn.
Arkinson pounced when he noticed him make the flip.
‘I used to be shocked he pulled me over,’ he mentioned.
‘It was off season, and nobody was round. It was a d**khead transfer. I felt like he pulled me over only for the sake of doing it.’
Fortunately, he mentioned he was given a ‘warning.’
However, the second time Arkinson wasn’t so good.
Spencer was driving close to the Sag Harbor Faculty when Arkinson pulled him over for speaking on his cellular phone.
‘I defined to him that I used to be on speaker and I used to be simply holding my telephone, however he advised me I ought to have been utilizing a Bluetooth,’ he mentioned.
He added: ‘I believed he would give me a break, and I used to be driving lower than 25mph making an attempt to get to the Y in East Hampton.’
As a substitute Arkinson hit him with a $145 ticket that he hasn’t paid.
‘I solely had lower than half-hour to swim. It actually interrupted my exercise, and lunch plans’ he mentioned.
‘I feel Justin Timberlake was a sufferer of over-aggressive Sag Harbor police.’
One other long-term Sag Harbor resident remembers when Atkinson was a visitors management officer and a ‘brownie’, or visitors management workplace, earlier than he moved up into the ranks within the pressure.
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Pictured: Arkinson as a toddler along with his father
The native mentioned whereas he’d has by no means obtained a ticket from Atkinson, everybody knew the place the cops would park on Most important Avenue: Outdoors the windmill and Murf’s Backstreet Tavern, and by the native faculty.
And he wasn’t shocked 24-year-old Atkinson had no concept who Timberlake was: ‘If that’s not your style in music, how would you recognize?’
He added that Arkinson’s showdown with the singer is certain to be launched: ‘If something got here out, it is all on bodycam.’
In keeping with Arkinson’s report, Timberlake refused a breathalyzer three totally different occasions
The 6-foot-4 Arkinson performed lacrosse at South Hampton Excessive Faculty, earlier than incomes a spot on the Roger Williams College group.
He began as a part-time visitors management officer when he was nonetheless in highschool going again so far as 2017 incomes lower than $15 an hour.
A yearly common wage for Sag Harbor PD officers is about $70,000.
In 2022, he graduated the police academy, and in March 2024 was promoted to full-time Sag Harbor officer.
Arkinson, who lives in South Hampton, roughly 25 minutes from the tiny city of Sag Harbor, did not reply to the DailyMail.com’s a number of requests for remark.
Arkinson’s dad and mom additionally selected to not remark about their son’s huge arrest.
Nevertheless they did name the police, who warned media to steer clear of their dwelling.
When the megastar was pulled over, Arkinson, famous on the grievance report that Timberlake carried out ‘poorly on all standardized area sobriety checks.’
The rookie cop famous that the star had reeked from alcohol, was unsteady on his ft and that his speech was sluggish as he tried to retrieve his automobile registration.
Timberlake mentioned he ‘solely had one martini,’ and that he ‘adopted his buddies dwelling’.
He additionally refused to take a breathalyzer check. Arkinson learn an alcohol affect report back to Timberlake at 12:52 am, who responded, ‘No, I am not doing a chemical check,’ which Arkinson famous on the grievance.
When provided once more at 1:07 am, Timberlake once more responded: ‘I refuse.’
A 3rd time at 1:22 am, Timberlake repeated: ‘I refuse.’
He was then positioned below arrest and transported to the Sag Harbor Police Division Headquarters by one other Sag Harbor officer Otis Cantrell and fronted the Sag Harbor Village Courtroom on Tuesday pleading not responsible.
His lawyer, Eddie Burke, bailed him out. By Wednesday, his lawyer advised DailyMail.com that he had left the Hamptons to arrange for his Chicago live performance on Friday night time.
Timberlake’s case is again in courtroom on July 26, however the star does not must be current.
In January 2000, NSYNC launched ‘Bye Bye Bye,’ which shot into the highest 5 of the Scorching 100 and spent 5 weeks atop the Scorching 100 Airplay chart. Arkinson was later born in June 2000
