An affiliate of Sean “Diddy” Combs was arrested on Monday, the identical day two of the Unhealthy Boy Data founder’s properties have been raided by Homeland Safety Investigations brokers.
Former Syracuse College basketball participant Brendan Paul was arrested by Miami-Dade Police Division officers on the Miami-Opa Locka Govt Airport on felony fees for possession of suspected cocaine and possession of suspected marijuana sweet, an arrest affidavit obtained by USA TODAY states. The arrest was made on account of a joint effort with Miami-Dade, the Division of Homeland Safety and Customs and Border Safety, per the affidavit.
“The defendant had the contraband within his particular person journey luggage, which he claimed previous to being searched,” the affidavit states. Upon testing, officers decided the substances have been cocaine and edibles.
He was launched on a $2,500 bond on Tuesday and has a listening to set for April 24. Lawyer data was not accessible for Paul.
Paul is known as Combs’ “mule” in Rodney “Lil Rod” Jones Jr.’s civil lawsuit in opposition to the Unhealthy Boy founder and Cuba Gooding Jr. for sexual assault and harassment.
In an amended lawsuit filed in a New York federal district court docket by Jones on Monday, he refers to Paul as Combs’ “mule,” writing that he allegedly “procured, transported and distributed ecstasy, cocaine, GHB, ketamine, marijuana, mushrooms, and tuci by packing these substances of their carry-on baggage and going by way of TSA.”
Tuci is described within the lawsuit as “a pink drug that could be a mixture of ecstasy and cocaine.”
USA TODAY has reached out to reps for Combs to touch upon Paul’s arrest and allegations.
Jones labored with Combs on his most up-to-date file, “The Love Album: Off the Grid.” In keeping with Jones, he and Combs labored collectively between September 2022 and November 2023, a partnership that resulted in 9 songs on “The Love Album” for which Jones is credited as a producer. Diddy has denied Jones’ allegations in opposition to him.
Within the lawsuit, Jones alleges Combs “required” him and Paul “to hold (Combs’) firearm on their particular person each time they went out.”
Defendant Kristina Khorram had Paul, Moy Baun and Frankie Santella perform an assortment of duties starting from drug trafficking to the procurement of intercourse employees for Combs, in keeping with Jones.
Paul was amongst considered one of Combs’ workers that “would negotiate the charges the intercourse employees obtained and would be certain that the employees are paid,” per the court docket paperwork.
In keeping with Jones, Metropolis Women rapper Yung Miami, together with two different ladies wellness coach Jade Ramey and rapper Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson’s ex-girlfriend and co-parent Daphne Pleasure, have been among the many ladies “who have been paid a month-to-month price to work as Mr. Combs’ intercourse employees.”
Rodney Jones Jr. alleges Yung Miami transported a drug referred to as ‘pink cocaine’
Moreover, Jones claimed that in April 2023 Yung Miami introduced tuci on a non-public jet from Miami as a result of “Sean Combs needed tuci however Brendan forgot it.” He alleges Khorram referred to as Yung Miami to acquire the drug whereas Combs was rehearsing for the One thing within the Water Music Pageant in Virginia.
In keeping with the U.S. Nationwide Library of Medication’s Nationwide Middle for Biotechnology Info, “tusi” is a concoction “typically known as ‘pink cocaine’ because it sometimes comes within the type of pink powder.” Research have proven that “nearly all of tusi samples comprise ketamine, usually mixed with … MDMA, methamphetamine, cocaine, opioids, and/or new psychoactive substances.”
Combs and Yung Miami have been first linked in 2021. They later confirmed they have been relationship in a June 2022 “Caresha Please” podcast episode.
The pair have been aloof about their relationship standing, however in an April 2023 profile with The Reduce, the “Act Up” rapper stated she was single.
USA TODAY has reached out to reps for Yung Miami, Ramey and Daphne Pleasure.
Jones’ lawsuit has implicated different celebrities, together with Yung Miami, whose unnamed cousin was accused of sexual assault after she allegedly “burst into the lavatory and started groping” Jones throughout a gathering on Thanksgiving Day 2022.
Jones additionally claims producer Stevie J helped recruit intercourse employees for Combs and took part in intercourse events known as “freak-offs” (a time period Combs allegedly used to check with sexual encounters with intercourse employees) in keeping with the lawsuit.
Diddy’s properties in Los Angeles, Miami raided by Homeland Safety Investigations
Jones’ amended lawsuit follows the reported raid of two of Combs’ properties. The properties have been reportedly searched by HSI on Monday as a part of a federal investigation.
Federal officers raided Combs’ Los Angeles residence Monday, in keeping with Rolling Stone and native Los Angeles information station Fox 11, amid lawsuits filed in opposition to him from accusers alleging the rapper and music mogul has raped or sexually assaulted them. Brokers additionally searched Combs’ Miami residence Monday, Rolling Stone and The Related Press reported.
The day after Combs’ properties have been raided, legal professional Aaron Dyer insisted on the rapper’s innocence and criticized the federal invasion for its “gross overuse of military-level pressure.” Dyer added that Combs was not detained by authorities, nor have been any of the rapper’s members of the family arrested throughout the raid.
“This unprecedented ambush – paired with a sophisticated, coordinated media presence – results in a untimely rush to judgment of Mr. Combs and is nothing greater than a witch hunt primarily based on meritless accusations made in civil lawsuits,” Dyer stated in a press release to USA TODAY on Tuesday.
Contributing: KiMi Robinson, Taijuan Moorman