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Diddy’s alleged “drug mule” appeared glum and resigned Monday in a video of his arrest at a Florida airport.
Bodycam footage shows former college basketball player Brendan Paul being led from a US Customs and Border Protection building in handcuffs to an awaiting Miami-Dade Police squad car.
Wearing a blue hoodie and sandals, Paul, 25, said nothing as he walked to the vehicle and was placed inside.
The sportsman turned music producer, a former Syracuse guard, was taken into custody at Opa Locka Airport after federal agents intercepted Diddy’s plane, which he was about to board.
Paul was booked on possession of cocaine and marijuana candy, according to an arrest report obtained by The Post. Both raps are felonies in Florida.
He bonded out of jail shortly after and his current whereabouts are unknown.
The drugs allegedly found on his person have not been linked to music exec Diddy, who is currently under federal investigation.
Paul was an unlikely figure in a lawsuit filed against Diddy and others by music producer Rodney Jones, who alleged the Ohio resident worked as Diddy’s “drug mule” and obtained firearms for him.
Paul has not made any public comment on the lawsuit or since his bust.
Originally from Shaker Heights, Ohio, Paul still resides in the state, according to a police report.
Here’s what we know about the allegations against Sean “Diddy” Combs
- Sean “Diddy” Comb’s homes in Los Angeles and Miami were raided by Homeland Security amid a possible connection with an ongoing sex-trafficking investigation.
- Authorities targeted the rapper’s homes to seize phones and computers, sources told The Post.
- Combs was spotted outside a Miami airport slowly strolling back and forth Monday just hours after the raids, according to reports.
- Brendan Paul, a music producer and basketball player, was arrested on drug charges at a Miami airport while attempting to board Combs’ private jet. Paul has been accused of being a “drug mule” for Combs in a federal lawsuit.
- At least four Jane Does and one John Doe have been interviewed by New York prosecutors in connection to sex-trafficking allegations and a RICO case, sources told Rolling Stone.
- Combs’ ex-girlfriend Cassie (Cassandra Ventura) filed a lawsuit against him in November 2023 on several allegations, including rape and physical abuse for over a decade.
- Combs and Cassie settled the lawsuit one day after she filed it.
- In November 2023, the rapper was accused of drugging, filming and sexually assaulting a woman on a date in 1991.
- The lawsuit describes how Combs drove the alleged victim to a music studio “where she could not get out of the car” before taking her “to a place he was staying to sexually assault her.”
- A third woman filed a lawsuit against the celebrity in November 2023, claiming that he and singer-songwriter Aaron Hall took turns sexually assaulting her and a friend in the early 1990s.
- The woman, listed as Jane Doe in the lawsuit, claimed that a couple of days after the assault, Combs came to the home where she and her friend were staying and violently attacked her.
- In December 2023, Combs was hit with a fourth sexual assault lawsuit that accused him and others of sexually assaulting a 17-year-old girl at his NYC recording studio after drugging her and supplying her with alcohol.
The hooper attended a private boarding school in New England, Brewster Academy, for the first three years of high school, before transferring to private Hawken High in Ohio.
He went on to attend Syracuse University in New York for his freshmen and sophomore years, before transferring to Fairmont State University in West Virginia.
After college, Paul pivoted to amateur music production during the pandemic.
He later went on to produce for Diddy on The Love Album, which was released last September.
Federal agents descended on the Bad Boy Records founder’s homes in Miami and Los Angeles as they probe sex trafficking charges against the embattled music mogul.
His attorneys have ripped the raids as part of an overblown “witch hunt” and promised to disprove the rumors and allegations surrounding him.
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