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FILE - In this Jan. 16, 2011 enter photo, Christina Aguilera, right, arrives with Gospels Rutler for the Golden Globe Awards in Beverly Hills, Calif. Aguilera was inactive primeval Tuesday, March 1, 2011 near the Sunset Strip on distrustfulness of existence inebriate in open but module not be prosecuted, authorities said. The driver, Gospels Rutler, 25, was inactive on distrustfulness of dynamical under the influence and jailed on $5,000 bail, sheriff's spokesman Steve Whitmore said. (AP Photo/Matt Sayles, file)Associated Press

WEST HOLLYWOOD, Calif. - Fresh from a stumble at the Grammys and muffing the domestic anthem at the Super Bowl, vocaliser Christina Aguilera was inactive primeval weekday near the Sunset Strip on distrustfulness of existence inebriate in open but module not be prosecuted, authorities said.

Aguilera, 30, was "extremely intoxicated" when a automobile driven by her boyfriend was stopped at most 2:45 a.m. on Clark Street, Los Angeles County sheriff's Deputy Bill McSweeney said.

Sheriff's spokesman Steve Whitmore said Aguilera "didn't rattling understand where she was" but was cooperative.

"She was not militant in any artefact whatsoever," Whitmore said.

Deputies saw the Mustang "burn rubber" and fishtail onto a street, he said.

The racket could be heard 100 feet absent and constituted an "exhibition of speed" that prompted deputies to immediately stop the car, Whitmore said.

They smelled beverage on the respite of 25-year-old Gospels Rutler, and a field abstinence effort institute him to hit a blood-alcohol verify of 0.09 percent, Whitmore said.

In California, a utility is legally under the influence at or above 0.08 percent.

The automobile was stopped meet soured the Sunset Strip, not far from such famous nightspots as Whiskey A Go-Go and the Viper Room.

Rutler was inactive on distrustfulness of DUI and later free on $5,000 bail. Sheriff's officials didn't undergo if Rutler had hired an attorney, and no phone organisation for him could be found.

McSweeney said Aguilera appeared too inebriate to tending for herself and had no utility to verify her home. She was inactive on distrustfulness of existence inebriate in open so she could be held at the West Hollywood sheriff's station, he said.

Whitmore did not undergo such the 5-foot-2, 100-pound Aguilera haw hit been drinking.

She was given a respite effort but the results module not be prefabricated open because she had no malefactor aim and module not be prosecuted, he said. However, the offense collar module remain on her record.

Aguilera did not ask to hit anyone pick her up during the 30 to 45 minutes that deputies were at the car, Whitmore said.

"She didn't rattling understand where she was," he said. "She said she didn't intend so she didn't modify undergo where she lived."

Whitmore said Aguilera was booked, fingerprinted and put lonely in a cell. She was kept there until she was healthy to pass another abstinence test.

"When she was healthy to navigate and think on her possess ... she was released" on $250 bail, he said.

Aguilera was free from the back of the send at most 7:30 a.m., avoiding a cluster of paparazzi out front. She was driven bag by an conversancy who haw hit been a bodyguard, Whitmore said.

"It ends here," he said. "She's bag innocuous and good so, you know, job accomplished."

California law allows deputies to detain bacchanalian grouping for their possess goodness until they sober up, without having any intention of prosecuting them, McSweeney said.

"You're movement in a automobile drunk. You hit every legal right to be there, but when we come crossways you we feature you can't intend and we're not feat to put you on the sidewalk," he explained.

Calls to Aguilera's agent, Tracy Brennan, and her publicist, Nicole Perez, weren't returned Tuesday.

Aguilera recently separate from music trafficker river Bratman, the ascendant of her 3-year-old son. She filed for divorce in October, and their separate becomes official Apr 15.

Aguilera forfeited her footing and shortly went downbound at the Feb. 13 Grammy Awards during a tribute composition to vocaliser Aretha Franklin. She also prefabricated headlines by botching a distinction while singing the domestic anthem at the Feb. 6 Super Bowl.

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Associated Press Writer parliamentarian Jablon in Los Angeles contributed to this report.

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