A man accused of being Diddy’s ‘drug mule’ was arrested trying to board at the same time the rapper’s mansion was raided by police.
Brendan Paul, 25, was arrested by Miami-Dade Police, alongside Homeland Security agents, at Opa-Locka Airport in Miami about 4.30pm on Monday.
Federal agents raided Diddy’s homes in Los Angeles and Miami the same day as part of a sex trafficking investigation and detained two of his sons.
Justin and King Combs were later released without charge. Photos show at least two men were put in handcuffs during the Los Angeles raid.
Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs whereabouts are unknown after federal agents raided his homes in Los Angeles and Miami
Diddy was spotted about 3pm at Opa-Locka Airport, not long before Paul was arrested there, hours after the raid started, after his jet flew in from LA.
Department of Homeland Security and other local law enforcement offices contacted by DailyMail.com on Tuesday have not been able to comment on Diddy’s location and it was not clear where he went.
He was scheduled to fly to the Caribbean and blocked the public tracking of his jet after it arrived in Miami. Police seized his phones but he was not arrested.
The LoveAir LLC Gulfstream 5 jet was later tracked to the Caribbean island of Antigua, but he wasn’t on board.
Paul is being held at Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center in Miami on two $2,500 bonds for cocaine and marijuana possession, according to jail records.
He had ‘contraband inside his personal travel bags… the suspect cocaine was located and tested’, an affidavit read.
Helicopter cameras were on the scene Monday afternoon as dozens of agents are were advancing on the massive Los Angeles-area estate
Paul was referred to as Diddy’s ‘drug mule’ in a lawsuit Rodney ‘Lil Rod’ Jones filed against Diddy, whose real name is Sean Combs.
The complaint, one of five against Cobs since November, alleged he was involved in ‘acquir[ing] and distribut[ing] Mr Combs drugs and guns’.
A person familiar with the allegations told Rolling Stone that the Paul in the lawsuit was the same one arrested at Opa-Locka Airport on Monday.
Whether Paul’s arrest was connected to allegations in the lawsuit, or to the raids on Diddy’s properties, was not confirmed.
Jones claimed in the lawsuit that he ‘personally witnessed’ Paul ‘acquire and distribute’ drugs to Combs and his entourage, and transport or intend to transport drugs in baggage on flights.
He wrote the flights were between Los Angeles, Miami, Virginia, the Caribbean, and London three 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 in their carry-on luggage and going through TSA,’ he wrote.
Jones attached a photo of Paul holding prescription pill bottles with a black pouch sitting on his lap the lawsuit claimed was ‘filled with ecstasy, cocaine, GHB, ketamine, marijuana, mushrooms, and tuci’.
Jones worked with Combs most recently on his record, The Love Album: Off the Grid.
He is suing the beleaguered rapper over claims he engaged in ‘serious illegal activity’ including sexual assault.
The initial lawsuit alleged Combs forced him to procure sex workers and pressured him into acts with them.
He also accused Gooding Jr. of groping him while on Diddy’s yacht in January 2023, according to the filings.
The incident allegedly took place in the Virgin Islands and saw Combs try to ‘pass off’ Jones to actor Gooding, the lawsuit states.
‘Cuba Gooding Jr. began touching, groping and fondling Mr. Jones’ legs, his upper inner thighs near his groin, the small of his back near his buttocks and his shoulders,’ Jones’ the lawsuit alleges.
The complaint also includes a photo appearing to show ‘Jerry Maguire’ star Gooding with his arm around Jones, as well as a pictures purportedly showing Combs and Gooding talking on the yacht.
Combs was accused in the lawsuit of failing to step in and stop Gooding from ‘sexually assaulting’ Jones.
Jones’ bombshell lawsuit against Diddy claims Combs subjected him to a year of groping and ‘constant unsolicited touching of his anus’.
His lawsuit alleged Diddy’s ‘affiliation’ to Prince Harry and other stars gave him and his associates ‘legitimacy’.
The court documents do not suggest any wrongdoing on Prince Harry’s part.
Jones’ lawyers claim guests were drawn to Diddy’s alleged sex-trafficking parties because of his ‘access to celebrities such as famous athletes, political figures, artist, musicians, and international dignitaries like British Royal, Prince Harry’.
Prince William and Prince Harry met Diddy and Kanye West at a post-concert party the Princes hosted to thank all who took part in the ‘Concert for Diana’ at Wembley Stadium’ in 2007.
However, the Prince of Wales is not named in the court documents.
Rapper and music mogul Diddy has been fighting at least five legal battles, including one against an unnamed woman who claimed he and two friends sexually assaulted her when she was 17.
Diddy’s former girlfriend R&B singer Cassie Ventura in a lawsuit filed in federal court in November also accused him of sex trafficking.
She claimed Diddy controlled and abused her for over a decade – as well as plying her with drugs, beating her and forcing her to have sex with multiple male prostitutes while he watched and recorded.
Combs denied the allegations and settled with Ventura out of court.
The lawsuit by Ventura was one of at least five civil complaints brought in recent months leveling sexual assault allegations against Combs, including one from Jones.
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 his social circle.
Another Jane Doe alleges that she and a friend were raped by Combs and his friend, the singer–songwriter Aaron Hall, in the early 1990s.
