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View all search resultsArgentine judge orders arrest warrant for Justin Bieber
Bieber saga: In this May 11, 2014 file photo, Justin Bieber attends Game 4 of the Western Conference semifinal NBA basketball playoff series with his mother Pattie Mallette (second left) in Los Angeles
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Bieber saga: In this May 11, 2014 file photo, Justin Bieber attends Game 4 of the Western Conference semifinal NBA basketball playoff series with his mother Pattie Mallette (second left) in Los Angeles. In a resolution released Friday, an Argentine judge has issued an arrest warrant for Bieber, saying the singer failed to respond to summons related to a 2013 incident in Buenos Aires. (AP/Mark J. Terrill) (second left) in Los Angeles. In a resolution released Friday, an Argentine judge has issued an arrest warrant for Bieber, saying the singer failed to respond to summons related to a 2013 incident in Buenos Aires. (AP/Mark J. Terrill)
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span class="caption">Bieber saga: In this May 11, 2014 file photo, Justin Bieber attends Game 4 of the Western Conference semifinal NBA basketball playoff series with his mother Pattie Mallette (second left) in Los Angeles. In a resolution released Friday, an Argentine judge has issued an arrest warrant for Bieber, saying the singer failed to respond to summons related to a 2013 incident in Buenos Aires. (AP/Mark J. Terrill)
An Argentine judge has issued an arrest warrant for Justin Bieber on Friday, saying the singer failed to respond to summons related to allegations he ordered bodyguards to attack a photographer in 2013.
Judge Alberto Julio Banos ordered the "immediate detention" of Bieber and bodyguards Hugo Alcides Hesny and Terrence Reche Smalls.
An email sent to a Bieber representative was not immediately returned.
Bieber is accused of sending the bodyguards to attack photographer Diego Pesoa outside a Buenos Aires nightclub. Bieber never returned to Argentina to respond to questions about the incident.
Under Argentine law, Bieber would face from one month to six years in prison if convicted on a charge of causing injuries.
It wasn't immediately clear whether the warrant would extend beyond Argentina. Calls to the judge's office Friday afternoon were not answered.
In comments to local station Telefe Noticias, Pesoa's lawyer implied that the warrant would force Bieber to return to the South American country.
"Now we just need to wait for the police to find him and bring him" to Argentina, said lawyer Matias Morla. "For us, this is a triumph against all those who said this case was a bluff and that we didn't have anything."
Calls and emails to Morla were not immediately returned. (*****)
