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A person accused of being Diddy’s ‘drug mule’ was arrested and charged with drug possession on the identical time the rapper’s mansion was raided by police.
Brendan Paul, 25, was arrested by Miami-Dade Police, alongside Homeland Safety brokers, at Opa-Locka Airport in Miami about 4.30pm on Monday.
Federal brokers raided Diddy’s houses in Los Angeles and Miami the identical day as a part of a intercourse trafficking investigation and detained two of his sons.
Justin and King Combs had been later launched with out cost. Photographs present a minimum of two males had been put in handcuffs in the course of the Los Angeles raid.
Diddy was noticed about 3pm at Opa-Locka Airport, not lengthy earlier than Paul was arrested there, hours after the raid began, after his jet flew in from LA.
Division of Homeland Safety and different native regulation enforcement workplaces contacted by DailyMail on Tuesday haven’t been capable of touch upon Diddy’s location and it was not clear the place he went.
He was scheduled to fly to the Caribbean and blocked the general public monitoring of his jet after it arrived in Miami. Police seized his telephones however he was not arrested.
The LoveAir LLC Gulfstream 5 jet was later tracked to the Caribbean island of Antigua, however he wasn’t on board.
Paul is being held at Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Heart in Miami on two $2,500 bonds for cocaine and marijuana possession, in keeping with jail data.
He had ‘contraband inside his private journey baggage… the suspect cocaine was positioned and examined’, an affidavit learn.
Paul was known as Diddy’s ‘drug mule’ in a $30 million lawsuit Rodney ‘Lil Rod’ Jones filed in opposition to Diddy, whose actual identify is Sean Combs.
The grievance, one among 5 in opposition to Cobs since November, alleged he was concerned in ‘acquir[ing] and distribut[ing] Mr Combs medicine and weapons’.
An individual conversant in the allegations advised Rolling Stone that the Paul within the lawsuit was the identical one arrested at Opa-Locka Airport on Monday.
Whether or not Paul’s arrest was linked to allegations within the lawsuit, or to the raids on Diddy’s properties, was not confirmed.
Jones claimed within the lawsuit that he ‘personally witnessed’ Paul ‘purchase and distribute’ medicine to Combs and his entourage, and transport or intend to move medicine in baggage on flights.
He wrote the flights had been between Los Angeles, Miami, Virginia, the Caribbean, and London 3 times in December 2022, April 2023 and November 2023.
‘Members of the enterprise and their associates procured, transported and distributed ecstasy, cocaine, GHB, ketamine, marijuana, mushrooms, by packing these substances of their carry-on baggage and going by means of TSA,’ he wrote.
‘Mr Jones personally witnessed… Brendan transport firearms to and from nightclubs, strip golf equipment, and different venues for Mr Combs on his individual in Miami, Florida.
‘Mr Jones personally witnessed Mr. Combs distribute firearms out of his bed room closet to people that Mr Jones knew to be members of native gangs.’
Jones hooked up a photograph of Paul holding prescription capsule bottles with a black pouch sitting on his lap.
‘Brendan Paul is videotaped with one of many black pouches Combs, and Kristina Khorram required the associates and members… to hold,’ he claimed.
‘This pouch was crammed with ecstasy, cocaine, GHB, ketamine, marijuana, mushrooms, and tuc.’
‘Mr Combs required Brendan Paul and Mr Jones to hold his firearm on their individual every time they went out,’ one other a part of the lawsuit learn.
‘Considered one of these events Mr. Jones was required to hold Mr Combs’ firearm was when Mr Combs recorded himself teaching Mr Jones on find out how to solicit intercourse employees.’
Jones labored with Combs most not too long ago on his file, The Love Album: Off the Grid. He claimed Paul and different workers had been advised to rent intercourse employees to return to the recording studio.
‘Mr Combs felt there was an excessive amount of testosterone within the studio and wished intercourse employees there to create the vibe for the Love Album,’ the lawsuit claimed.
‘Then these employees arrived, and Mr Jones and the opposite musicians and producers had been required to have interaction in intercourse acts with them.’
Jones is suing the beleaguered rapper over claims he engaged in ‘severe criminality’ together with sexual assault.
The preliminary lawsuit alleged Combs compelled him to acquire intercourse employees and pressured him into acts with them.
He additionally accused Gooding Jr. of groping him whereas on Diddy’s yacht in January 2023, in keeping with the filings.
The incident allegedly befell within the Virgin Islands and noticed Combs attempt to ‘cross off’ Jones to actor Gooding, the lawsuit states.
‘Cuba Gooding Jr. started touching, groping and fondling Mr. Jones’ legs, his higher internal thighs close to his groin, the small of his again close to his buttocks and his shoulders,’ Jones’ the lawsuit alleges.
The grievance additionally features a photograph showing to point out ‘Jerry Maguire’ star Gooding along with his arm round Jones, in addition to a footage purportedly exhibiting Combs and Gooding speaking on the yacht.
Combs was accused within the lawsuit of failing to step in and cease Gooding from ‘sexually assaulting’ Jones.
Jones’ bombshell lawsuit in opposition to Diddy claims Combs subjected him to a yr of groping and ‘fixed unsolicited touching of his anus’.
He says he was ordered to recruit prostitutes and have intercourse with them for the star’s pleasure, and has a whole bunch of hours of video documenting Combs’s ‘severe criminality’.
He claims he was additionally sexually assaulted by a feminine cousin of Combs’s girlfriend Yung Miami and compelled to observe a video of file producer Stevie J having intercourse with one other man.
Jones was required to work in Combs’ lavatory the place the star would bathe bare behind a glass display screen, in keeping with the lawsuit.
The producer alleges Combs boasted of getting shot individuals and threatened to inflict bodily hurt if Jones didn’t comply along with his calls for.
He says the ‘forceful and demanding’ star privately admitted involvement in a 1999 nightclub capturing that noticed him acquitted of gun possession and bribery expenses.
‘Mr Combs constantly made it clear that he has immense energy within the music trade and with regulation enforcement,’ the lawsuit claimed.
Jones claims that underage women and intercourse employees had been visitors on the star’s home events and that he noticed the star drug their drinks.
He additionally claims he was ordered to Miami trawl bars and nightspots to recruit intercourse employees, and says he himself was drugged in February final yr earlier than he awoke bare, dizzy and confused in mattress with Combs and two intercourse employees.
His lawsuit additionally names Combs’ son Justin, his chief of workers Kristina Khorram, and Common Music Group chief govt Sir Lucian Grange as defendants.
It accuses Khorram of ‘grooming’ him on Combs’s behalf and claims that Motown Information, Love Information and Common Music Group comprised a ‘Rico enterprise’ that ‘didn’t adequately monitor, warn or supervise’ Combs and his internal circle.
Jones named a number of the trade’s greatest names as co-defendants within the $30 million go well with, claiming file boss Ethiopia Habtemariam dismissed Combs’s groping as ‘pleasant horseplay’, and his method of ‘exhibiting that he likes you’.
His lawsuit alleged Diddy’s ‘affiliation’ to Prince Harry and different stars gave him and his associates ‘legitimacy’.
The courtroom paperwork don’t recommend any wrongdoing on Prince Harry’s half.
Jones’ legal professionals declare visitors had been drawn to Diddy’s alleged sex-trafficking events due to his ‘entry to celebrities similar to well-known athletes, political figures, artist, musicians, and worldwide dignitaries like British Royal, Prince Harry’.
Prince William and Prince Harry met Diddy and Kanye West at a post-concert celebration the Princes hosted to thank all who took half within the ‘Live performance for Diana’ at Wembley Stadium’ in 2007.
Nonetheless, the Prince of Wales shouldn’t be named within the courtroom paperwork.
Diddy denied the prevailing allegations in opposition to him, calling them ‘sickening’, and his lawyer dismissed Jones’s claims as ‘pure fiction’.
‘Lil Rod is nothing greater than a liar who filed a $30 billion lawsuit shamelessly searching for an undeserved payday,’ lawyer Shawn Holley advised TMZ in February.
