UPDATE
7:13 PM PT — A regulation enforcement supply tells TMZ … the arrest was scheduled for Tuesday. however one thing occurred that induced the feds to maneuver in a day earlier.
Diddy was simply arrested and brought into federal custody in New York Monday evening … TMZ has realized.
Sources inform TMZ … Homeland Safety swooped right into a midtown lodge late Monday the place Diddy was staying and so they arrested him. We have now unconfirmed studies the feds are looking his lodge room.
We’re instructed Diddy was taken to the FBI Subject Workplace in Manhattan.
It seems the motion was taken in reference to the continued prison investigation into alleged intercourse trafficking and different offenses that led to look warrants being issued and executed at Diddy’s properties in Beverly Hills and Miami. As we reported, a grand jury has been listening to testimony from varied accusers over the previous couple of months.
Diddy’s lawyer, Marc Agnifilo, tells TMZ, “We’re dissatisfied with the choice to pursue what we consider is an unjust prosecution of Mr. Combs by the U.S. Lawyer’s Workplace. Sean “Diddy” Combs is a music icon, self-made entrepreneur, loving household man, and confirmed philanthropist who has spent the final 30 years constructing an empire, adoring his kids, and dealing to uplift the Black group.”
Agnifilo provides, “He’s an imperfect individual however just isn’t prison. To his credit score Mr. Combs has been nothing however cooperative with this investigation and he voluntarily relocated to New York final week in anticipation of those fees. Please reserve your judgment till you have got all of the information. These are the acts of an harmless man with nothing to cover, and he seems to be ahead to clearing his identify in court docket.”
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