Justin Bieber appears to be smoking pot in party pictures

Bieber was photographed last Wednesday at a hotel-room party in Newport Beach holding what appears to be a marijuana cigarette while sitting with fellow partiers and a couple of empty beer bottles.

The photos, taken in the presence of security and obtained by TMZ over the weekend, show the Biebs laughing and chatting with the lighted blunt between his fingers.

 

Sources at the party told the website that rapper Lil Twist and his brother were rolling the blunts. The day before the pitchers were taken, Twist was pulled over while driving Bieber's Ferrari, and freelance photographer Chris Guerra, who was trying to snap pictures of the traffic stop, was killed while crossing Sepulveda Boulevard.

Guerra, TMZ said, made a phone call shortly before his death telling a friend he was convinced Bieber was smoking pot behind the wheel — he reportedly thought he was in pursuit of a hot story. Bieber was not in the car when it was pulled over around 6 p.m. on New Year's Day, and sources close to the pop star insisted that Guerra was mistaken.

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