Bruce Springsteenâs drunken-driving charges are dismissed By Tracey Tully New York Times,Updated February 24, 2021, 9:40 p.m. Email to a Friend Bruce Springsteen.Charles Sykes/Charles Sykes/Invision/AP Prosecutors dismissed the two most serious criminal charges filed last year against the rock icon Bruce Springsteen â drunken driving and reckless driving â during a brief hearing Wednesday in federal court in New Jersey. Springsteen, 71, pleaded guilty to the least serious of the three charges he was facing, drinking alcohol in a closed area, where it was barred. He was fined $5...