New dashcam footage shows Britney Spears’ March arrest and sobriety test

ABC News has released dashcam footage that puts Britney Spears’ March 4 arrest in sharper focus, showing the singer being stopped, tested for sobriety and handcuffed after California Highway Patrol officers responded to reports of an erratic driver. Spears, who was 44 at the time, was pulled over in a black BMW 430i on southbound US-101 near the Borchard Road exit in Newbury Park at about 8:48 p.m.

The video shows officers administering a field sobriety test before placing Spears in handcuffs and escorting her to the back of a patrol vehicle. In the footage, Spears tells officers she is fine and says she has already completed the evaluation, insisting that she wants to get back into her car and leave. The newly released report adds a more detailed account of what officers said they observed at the scene.

According to the report, officers detected the smell of alcohol coming from inside the vehicle. Spears reportedly told them she had one mimosa earlier in the day, but the report says officers saw red and watery eyes, dilated pupils, rapid and slurred speech, and an unsteady gait. Officers also said they found a bottle of pills labeled Adderall that were not prescribed to Spears, along with an empty wine glass in a cup holder. The report says Spears initially resisted getting out of the car, then agreed after repeated conversation.

From there, officers took her to the California Highway Patrol Moorpark Office for a Drug Recognition Evaluation and then to Los Robles Medical Center for a blood draw. The report says Spears became argumentative and belligerent while trying to delay the blood draw. She was later transported to Ventura County Jail and booked on a DUI involving alcohol and drugs.

The arrest did not end with that booking. The Ventura County District Attorney’s Office originally filed a misdemeanor DUI charge, but Spears resolved the case at her first court appearance in Ventura County Superior Court on May 4, 2026. Her lawyer, Michael A. Goldstein, entered a plea to a reduced reckless-driving offense commonly called a wet reckless. The sentence included one year of probation, a three-month DUI program, state-mandated fines and one day in jail, which the court credited as time already served. ABC News also reported that the terms included weekly visits with a psychologist, twice-monthly visits with a psychiatrist and chemical tests if police request them.

Spears did not appear in court. After the case, she posted on Instagram about a spiritual journey and described the experience as a blessing in disguise, a sign that the episode had quickly moved beyond a routine traffic stop and into a much more public reckoning.