4 paparazzi chasing Spears’ car arrested

updated 12:39 p.m. ET Jan. 21, 2008

LOS ANGELES - Four paparazzi have been arrested on suspicion of reckless driving while chasing Britney Spears’ car in the San Fernando Valley, police said.

Roberto Maciel, 31, Leandro Gomes, 30, Filipi Teixeira, 27, and Eduardo Ravalah, 34, were booked for investigation of reckless driving and released early Thursday on $5,000 bail each, said Officer Jason Lee, a police spokesman.

Attempts to find telephone listings for the photographers were not successful. It was immediately clear for whom they worked.

The incident began around 11:30 p.m. Wednesday when officers observed several cars following a white Mercedes-Benz in the Los Angeles neighborhood of Mission Hills, said police Lt. Mario Munoz.

The cars were following the Mercedes too closely, traveling at unsafe speed and making several unsafe lane changes, authorities said.

Munoz said officers stopped the Mercedes, interviewed Spears and released the 26-year-old pop star after verifying her driver’s license.

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