Diddy, described as a “drug mule,” resigned on Monday, appearing displeased in a video of his arrest at a Florida airport.
Body camera footage shows former college basketball player Brendan Paul being led in handcuffs from the U.S. Customs and Border Protection building to a waiting Miami-Dade police squad car.
Paul, 25, wearing a blue hoodie and sandals, walked to the car without saying a word and was put inside.
The former Syracuse security guard, an athlete turned music producer, was taken into custody at Opa Locka Airport after federal agents intercepted Diddy’s flight.
Paul was arrested for possession of cocaine and marijuana candy, according to an arrest report obtained by the newspaper. Both raps are felonies in Florida.
He was released from prison shortly thereafter, but his current whereabouts are unknown.
The drugs allegedly found in his body were not connected to music executive Diddy, who is currently under federal investigation.
Paul filed a lawsuit against Diddy and others by music producer Rodney Jones, alleging that Rodney, an Ohio resident, worked as Diddy’s “drug mule” and obtained firearms for him. Paul was an unlikely figure in the lawsuit.
Paul has not made any public comments about the lawsuit or since his arrest.
According to police reports, Paul is from Shaker Heights, Ohio, where he still lives.
Here’s what we know about the allegations against Sean “Diddy” Combs
- Sean “Diddy” Comb’s Los Angeles and Miami homes were searched by the Department of Homeland Security in possible connection to the ongoing case. sex trafficking investigation.
- Sources told The Post that authorities targeted the rapper’s home and seized his cellphone and computer.
- Combs was reportedly spotted walking slowly back and forth outside the Miami airport on Monday, just hours after the attack.
- Music producer and basketball player Brendan Paul was arrested on drug charges as he tried to board Combs’ private jet at the Miami airport. Paul is accused in a federal lawsuit of being Combs’ “drug mule.”
- At least four Jane Does and one John Doe are being questioned by New York prosecutors in connection with sex trafficking allegations and RICO cases. A source told Rolling Stone.
- Combs’ ex-girlfriend, Cassie (Cassandra Ventura), filed a lawsuit against Combs in November 2023 on several charges, including rape and physical abuse over a period of more than a decade.
- Combs and Kathy settled the case the day after filing their lawsuit.
- In November 2023, the rapper was accused of drugging, filming, and sexually assaulting a woman during a 1991 date.
- The complaint alleges that Combs drove the alleged victim to a music studio where she “couldn’t get out of her car” and then took her to “a location where he was staying to sexually assault her.” The background is explained.
- A third woman filed a lawsuit against the celebrity in November 2023, alleging that he and singer-songwriter Aaron Hall took turns sexually assaulting her and a friend in the early 1990s.
- The woman, identified in the complaint as Jane Doe, claimed that a few days after the assault, Combs came to her home where she was staying with a friend and assaulted her.
- In December 2023, Combs and others filed a fourth sexual assault lawsuit, alleging that he drugged a 17-year-old girl at a recording studio in New York, gave her alcohol, and then sexually assaulted her. woke up.
Hooper attended Brewster Academy, a private boarding school in New England, for his first three years of high school, and then transferred to Hawken High School, a private school in Ohio.
He attended Syracuse University in New York for his freshman and sophomore years before transferring to Fairmont State University in West Virginia.
After graduating from university, Paul pivoted to amateur music production during the pandemic.
He later produced Diddy’s “The Love Album,” which was released last September.
Federal agents have raided the Bad Boy Records founder’s homes in Miami and Los Angeles, investigating sex trafficking allegations against the embattled music mogul.
His lawyers claimed the raid was part of an exaggerated “witch hunt” and vowed to disprove the rumors and allegations surrounding him.
