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.