An affiliate of Sean “Diddy” Combs was arrested on Monday, the identical day two of the Dangerous Boy Information founder’s houses had 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 Government Airport on felony costs for possession of suspected cocaine and possession of suspected marijuana sweet, an arrest affidavit obtained by USA TODAY states. The arrest was made because 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 baggage, which he claimed previous to being searched,” the affidavit states. Upon testing, officers decided the substances had 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 out there for Paul.
Paul is known as Combs’ “mule” in Rodney “Lil Rod” Jones Jr.’s civil lawsuit in opposition to the Dangerous 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 via TSA.”
Tuci is described within the lawsuit as “a pink drug that may 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 document, “The Love Album: Off the Grid.” In line 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 every time they went out.”
Defendant Kristina Khorram had Paul, Moy Baun and Frankie Santella perform an assortment of obligations starting from drug trafficking to the procurement of intercourse employees for Combs, in response to Jones.
Paul was amongst one among 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 line 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, had been among the many ladies “who had been paid a month-to-month price to work as Mr. Combs’ intercourse employees.”
Rodney Jones Jr. alleges Yung Miami transported a drug often known 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 Competition in Virginia.
In line with the U.S. Nationwide Library of Drugs’s Nationwide Heart for Biotechnology Data, “tusi” is a concoction “typically known as ‘pink cocaine’ because it usually comes within the type of pink powder.” Research have proven that “nearly all of tusi samples comprise ketamine, typically mixed with … MDMA, methamphetamine, cocaine, opioids, and/or new psychoactive substances.”
Combs and Yung Miami had been first linked in 2021. They later confirmed they had been relationship in a June 2022 “Caresha Please” podcast episode.
The pair had been aloof about their relationship standing, however in an April 2023 profile with The Reduce, the “Act Up” rapper mentioned 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 toilet and commenced 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 response to the lawsuit.
Diddy’s houses in Los Angeles, Miami raided by Homeland Safety Investigations
Jones’ amended lawsuit follows the reported raid of two of Combs’ houses. The houses had been reportedly searched by HSI on Monday as a part of a federal investigation.
Federal officers raided Combs’ Los Angeles residence Monday, in response to 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’ houses had been raided, legal professional Aaron Dyer insisted on the rapper’s innocence and criticized the federal invasion for its “gross overuse of military-level drive.” Dyer added that Combs was not detained by authorities, nor had 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 mentioned in a press release to USA TODAY on Tuesday.
Contributing: KiMi Robinson, Taijuan Moorman