Justin Bieber hasn’t spoken yet with detectives investigating allegations he egged a neighbor’s house, a sheriff’s sergeant said on January 13.

    “A neighbor accused him of throwing eggs at the house, and we are investigating,” Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Sgt. Don Prince said.

    If investigators find enough evidence that Bieber, 19, threw the eggs that splattered* against his next-door neighbor’s home, they could refer the matter to the district attorney’s office for possible prosecution, Prince said.

    The cost of repairing the damage to the house is a key factor in determining the severity* of the charge. It could be felony* vandalism* if the eggs caused more than US$950 in damage.

    The Oaks, an exclusive gated community in Calabasas, California, is at the center of the accusations. Bieber moved into a US$6.5 million mansion there two years ago.

    His neighbors have complained about Bieber several times in the past year, including in May when two neighbors called the sheriff to report he was speeding down residential streets, a sheriff’s spokesman said.

    Deputies visited Bieber’s home in response, but the singer refused to talk to them, sheriff’s department spokesman Steve Whitmore said.

    A neighbor accused Bieber of spitting on him and making threats during a heated confrontation outside his home last March, Whitmore said. It prompted a sheriff’s probe, but no charges followed.(SD-Agencies)