Brendan Paul, who has been accused of working as a “drug and gun mule” for Sean “Diddy” Combs, was arraigned in a Miami-Dade County courtroom on Wednesday (April 24), together with his lawyer getting into a not responsible plea for his 25-year-old shopper. Paul was arrested at Miami-Opa Locka Government Airport on March 25 with cocaine and cannabis-infused sweet allegedly in his possession the identical day Diddy’s LA and Miami properties had been raided.
TMZ captured footage of Diddy pacing round exterior of that very same airport on the day Paul was detained by federal brokers. Paul made bond and was launched the subsequent day, on Tuesday, March 26.
In keeping with NBC Miami, the Miami-Dade State Lawyer’s Workplace filed a cocaine possession cost however dropped a possession of a managed substance cost towards Paul. Though Paul wasn’t in attendance on the arraignment on Wednesday, his lawyer Brian Bieber a not responsible plea on his shopper’s behalf.
From 2018 to 2020, Paul performed two seasons for the Syracuse males’s basketball group. He didn’t get an excessive amount of taking part in time, showing in 16 video games whole and averaging lower than some extent, based on Sports activities Reference. He then turned concerned about changing into a music producer and transferred to a Division II faculty in West Virginia the place he graduated with a enterprise diploma. By 2022, he was touring round with Diddy on his non-public jet.
Paul’s arrest stems from a sex-trafficking probe involving Combs, who has maintained his innocence. NBC experiences that at the least 5 regulation enforcement sources have stated the raids are linked to an ongoing intercourse trafficking probe. A day after the late-March raids of his properties, Diddy’s legal professional Aaron Dyer shared this assertion with Billboard: “Yesterday, there was a gross overuse of military-level drive as search warrants had been executed at Mr. Combs’ residences. There isn’t any excuse for the extreme present of drive and hostility exhibited by authorities or the way in which his kids and workers had been handled. Mr. Combs was by no means detained however spoke to and cooperated with authorities.”
Diddy’s former girlfriend Cassie Ventura opened the floodgates towards Combs together with her now-settled lawsuit again in November. The music mogul has confronted a slew of different sexual misconduct lawsuits since and was compelled to step down as chairman of Revolt TV.
