New footage shows Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs speaking to police outside his private jet as they arrested the man accused of being the rapper’s drug mule.
Brendan Paul, 25, was arrested by Miami-Dade police, along with Homeland Security agents, at Opa-Locka Airport in Miami around 4:30 p.m. Monday as authorities raided Diddy’s mansions. .
Photos show Diddy wearing a white shirt and blue pants with his back to the camera as he talks to police. In the mix is Paul, wearing a blue hoodie and a black hat.
Combs, 54, was seen talking to agents at the airport 15 minutes from his Miami Beach home Monday night, but was never arrested.
Aaron Dyer, the rapper’s attorney, broke Combs’ silence just over 24 hours after the Homeland Security investigation with a statement to DailyMail.com.
‘Yesterday there was a serious excessive use of force at a military level when search warrants were executed at Mr. Combs’ residences. “There is no excuse for the excessive display of force and hostility exhibited by authorities or the way his children and employees were treated,” Dyer said.
Diddy is shown speaking to police outside his private jet as they arrested the man accused of being the rapper’s drug mule on Monday.
Photos show Diddy wearing a white shirt and blue pants with his back to the camera as he talks to police.
Brendan Paul, 25, was arrested by Miami-Dade police, along with Homeland Security agents, at Opa-Locka Airport in Miami around 4:30 p.m. Monday.
Diddy’s alleged ‘drug mule’ Paul was seen wearing a blue hoodie and a black hat in the mix before his arrest.
Combs was seen talking to agents at the airport 15 minutes from his Miami Beach home Monday night, but was never arrested.
‘Mister. “Combs was never arrested but he spoke and cooperated with authorities,” he added. “Despite media speculation, neither Mr. Combs nor any of his family members have been arrested nor has his ability to travel been restricted in any way.”
“This unprecedented ambush, coupled with an advanced and coordinated media presence, leads to a premature rush to try Mr. Combs and is nothing more than a witch hunt based on baseless accusations made in civil trials,” Dyer continued .
‘No criminal or civil liability has been found with any of these accusations. Mr. Combs is innocent and will continue to fight every day to clear his name.
The rapper has not been seen since homeland security agents arrived at his properties in Miami and Los Angeles as part of their investigation into alleged sex trafficking.
Sources told Page Six that Combs was planning to fly to the Bahamas to spend time with his 17-year-old twins, Jessie and D’Lila, when agents swooped on his properties.
Diddy was seen around 3 p.m. walking through the customs area at Opa-Locka Airport, shortly before Paul was arrested there.
An arrest warrant obtained by DailyMail.com says Paul admitted to having drugs in his luggage when police intercepted him.
The document, filed by the Miami-Dade Police Department, says: ‘While working alongside the Department of Homeland Security and Customs and Border Protection, the defendant was detained for being in possession of suspected cocaine and marijuana candy.
‘The defendant had the contraband inside his personal travel bags, which he claimed before being searched.
“The suspected cocaine was located and analyzed by officers…the defendant was charged accordingly.”
Aaron Dyer, the rapper’s attorney, broke Combs’ silence just over 24 hours after the Homeland Security investigation called it a ‘witch hunt.’
Agents arrived at his properties in Miami and Los Angeles as part of their investigation into alleged sex trafficking.
Paul, 25, of Chagrin Falls, Ohio, is charged with felony counts of possession of cocaine and possession of marijuana. Paul was held at the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center in Miami on two $2,500 bonds.
Paul was referred to as Diddy’s ‘drug mule’ in a $30 million lawsuit that Rodney ‘Lil Rod’ Jones filed against Diddy.
The complaint, one of five against Combs since November, alleged that he was involved in “acquiring and distributing drugs and weapons from Mr. Combs.”
Jones’ lawsuit is one of several filed against the rapper since late last year that led to the raid of his homes.
The investigation was led by Homeland Security Investigations agents in New York, where his ex-girlfriend, R&B singer Cassie Ventura, accused him in a lawsuit filed in federal court in November of engaging in sex trafficking.
She alleged that Diddy controlled and abused her for more than a decade, including drugging her, beating her, and forcing her to have sex with several prostitutes while he watched and recorded.
Combs has denied the allegations and settled with Ventura out of court.
Ventura’s lawsuit was one of at least four civil complaints filed in recent months making sexual assault allegations against Combs.
The rapper and music mogul has been fighting several legal battles, including one against an unnamed woman who claimed he and two friends sexually assaulted her when she was 17 years old.
Joi Dickerson-Neal, another accuser, claims Combs slipped something into her drink and sexually assaulted her in 1991 while she was a student at Syracuse University. She alleges that he filmed the attack and shared the video with her social circle.
Armed agents entered luxury properties on the east and west coasts of the United States
During the raids, two of his sons were detained at the scene of the Holmby Hills, California, home while the warrant was being executed, but were released without charge.
Another Jane Doe alleges that she and a friend were raped by Combs and his friend, singer-songwriter Aaron Hall, in the early 1990s.
During the raids, two of his children were detained at the scene of the Holmby Hills, California, home while the warrant was being executed, but were released without charge.
Armed officers entered luxury properties on the east and west coasts of the United States, with video footage showing helicopters hovering overhead.
The officers, wearing vests, gathered in the backyard of the house, near the pool.
Several officers were seen loading bags and boxes of evidence into a van with the help of police dogs.
They gathered evidence that included “a number of” electronic devices, ABC News reported.