The rapper Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs (54 years old), indicted for human trafficking and sexual abuse, was arrested this Monday in a New York hotel, as confirmed by his lawyer to the cnn.
The rapper was arrested after being indicted by a grand jury of anonymous citizens, but it is still unclear what crimes he is accused of, the network detailed.
The content of the accusation will be announced throughout Tuesday. when the rapper appears in court in the Southern District of New York, where the judge must decide whether he should continue the process in freedom or in preventive detention.
Combs, who had been in New York for a week, was arrested at the Park Hyatt hotel in Manhattan by agents from the Homeland Security Investigations Office.
His lawyer, Marc Agnifilo, issued a statement deploring the “unfair prosecution” of Combs. “He is an imperfect person, but he is not a criminal.”said the lawyer.
Agnifilo said he was “disappointed” by the arrest and said Combs was cooperating with authorities.
The musician’s arrest This comes after receiving ten complaints of sexual abuse in the past year. and rape by various women, accusations Combs has denied.
However, in May he issued a public apology after the cnn revealed a 2016 video of him kicking and dragging his then-girlfriend, Cassie Ventura, through the hallways of a Los Angeles hotel.
In March, authorities executed two search warrants at his properties in Los Angeles and Miami as part of a federal investigation into sex trafficking, drug trafficking and illegal gun possession.
