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Justin Bieber and father Jeremy Bieber took a stroll along the beach in Miami one day before the pop star’s arrest.
As Justin Bieber deals with his drag-racing DUI and alleged egg assault, critics are turning up the heat on the pop star’s papa.
"His dad is a bad influence," one well-connected source told the Daily News Friday.
Jeremy Bieber, 38, was partying with his famous son at SET nightclub in Miami Wednesday night and was in the SUV caravan that allegedly blocked traffic so the “Baby” singer could drag race, a well-placed source told the Daily News.
The dad was mum on social media following Justin’s pre-dawn bust but defended the hard-partying heartthrob on Twitter Friday morning.
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Jeremy Bieber leaves the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center in Miami on Thursday.
"I can protect my kids, but I can't protect them from you and your lies. Believe in the truth not in the lies of the enemy. #reallife,” the dad, who shares matching ink with his tattooed terror, tweeted.
Paparazzi photos taken after Jeremy collected his 19-year-old son from jail reportedly showed the duo hanging outside a Miami rental house with alcoholic beverages in view.
According to Miami Beach Police, Justin was wasted behind the wheel of his rented Lamborghini and cussed out cops with multiple F-bombs while resisting arrest early Thursday.
Jeremy – who split with Justin’s mom while the future phenom was a baby – is now married and living in Ontario with two much younger kids, Jazmyn and Jaxon.
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Justin Bieber being arraigned in Miami on Thursday.
Still, he's been spending lots of time with his first-born lately.
The two were photographed together at a Leafs hockey game in Toronto Dec. 29, just hours before a limo driver called cops to report a Bieber-related assault.
The driver said he was driving Justin and his entourage away from the Air Canada Centre after the game when an unidentified member of the group assaulted him.
A Toronto Police spokesman declined to say Friday whether Jeremy was in the limo but confirmed the investigation is ongoing.
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Justin Bieber was photographed hanging out with his dad in his rented villa in Miami following his arrest.
Jeremy also was with Justin and his son’s pal Lil Za in San Francisco on Jan. 6, three days before the “Boyfriend” singer allegedly hurled more than a dozen raw eggs at his estranged neighbor’s house in Calabasas, Calif.
The day of the alleged egging, Jeremy posted a Twitter photo of himself and Justin smirking for a camera with the caption: “Father like son. Son like father.”
Five days later, cops investigating the egging as a possible felony vandalism rolled up to Justin’s mansion with a search warrant. They saw at least one bong inside and arrested Lil Za for illegal possession of Molly, or MDMA, and Xanax, sources said.
Jeremy was out of California by that point, according to his Twitter, but he used Instagram to share a snap of Justin standing next to him on a Miami beach with another friend Wednesday.
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Justin Bieber poses with father Jeremy Bieber and mother Pattie Lynn Mallette in February 2011.
“These guys are addicted to @shots,” he wrote in the caption, referring to an online photo sharing site he promotes.
Justin’s mom Pattie Mallette, 37, had the Canadian crooner when she was 17 and was his primary caretaker for years, but Justin told Seventeen magazine he remained close with his father.
“I have a great relationship with my dad,” he said. “When I was younger, he taught me how to play some songs on the guitar, like ‘Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door’ by Bob Dylan. He taught me how to drive too.”
It's not yet clear where Jeremy stands on the subject of Bieber entering rehab, but sources told The News Thursday that Bieber's manager Scooter Braun wants the singer to get help.
Attempts to reach Jeremy directly Friday were not immediately successful.
"Scooter and the team have been encouraging him to go to rehab, but he's denied there's any issue," one source said Thursday.
”(Justin) has been on this freefall, and nobody has been able to stop him despite people reaching out,” southern California lawyer Brian Claypool, who is not part of Bieber’s team, told The News. “The criminal justice system now has to act like a surrogate parent.”
ndillon@nydailynews.com
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