Diddy's LA home raided: Full coverage

The Department of Homeland Security is conducting a raid on a

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at HBY Field. Hills is believed to be connected to Shawn Colmes, the rapper and music executive, perhaps linked to a sex trafficking investigation. Let's go live to Stu Mandel on Sky Fox right now to find out more. What do we know? Yeah, I heard her say we're live, copy, copy, there you see Sky Fox on top of this house, where again we're seeing Department of Homeland Security investigators in this house, now we go to Haley Winslow, who lives in the ground right there Haley, what do we know?

Sandra, this is going to turn into a big scene that lasts all day and involves, yes, P Diddy, the house is actually registered for the Bad Boy movies, which is a division of Bad Boy. Entertainment, basically his company and the houses registered for that and for his daughter, now from Sky Fox to there, he got some photos of some people leaving the house, those people have been detained now, we are still trying to connect the dots. We have some sources on the scene here that we are getting this information from. We were actually the first ones here with about 30 different law enforcement agencies.

There are at least three Bearcats on the scene here. All this developed. Sandra, I would say in less than 10 minutes. We got here before the crime scene tape even came out, so we're down the hill. If you look down the street where Tony is now, to the right, you'll see one of those Bearcats and law enforcement on the other side of those. bushes is basically that house that is registered to the Bad Boy movies, which is part of Bad Boy Entertainment and the particular house is registered not only to the Bad Boy movies, but also to one of P Diddy's daughters.

We now hear from law enforcement sources that this involves sex. traffic, but we still don't know to what extent or the details about it, but you better believe we'll be on this all day keeping you up to date with the latest that we're now reporting live here on the scene at HBY Hills. Haley Winslow Fox Haley, thank you and you can see from that ground a very active scene right there, there's already a perimeter set up, no, just these, the guys on the ground, the heavily armed officers that came in. actually they're just hanging around or holding the perimeter as it wouldn't be essential, you can see them going back to these armored vehicles, probably doing a little report on what they saw in any kind of these situations, really do you know you have these armored officers who go in first, but I would dare say that the investigators or the people who know what they are looking for are probably still on the streets and are waiting for everything to clear up? to make sure there is absolutely no one on this property and again, this is just a precaution, they don't want to get into any kind of trouble, maybe someone is hiding still, maybe they're just scared and then you know, there's no reason to be nefarious, uh and just because they don't know what's going on and they just don't want someone coming out of a closet or a bathroom or any of these rooms while they're doing that investigation and then other problems may arise, so that's basically the reason.

We're seeing this large presence still walking around and as you mentioned, this is an extremely large house and probably has many rooms and a small secret area, so they want to make sure everything is clean before they allow those investigators to begin. to do. that investigation, whatever it is that they are looking for, but you can see several of those officers returning to that specialty, this is the big main house, as it would be returning inside and I dare say that I am going to review each one of those rooms and make sure no one is there.

I don't think it's those guys that were watching guys and girls that were watching with those heavily armored gear and equipment. I don't think they're looking for anything that can be connected, whatever the investigation is. I would venture to say that those will be the guys that you're seeing right there and they're waiting for everything to clear up and then. This group that you see there, those are the ones that are really going to come in, they probably have, like you said, they probably have ideas of where they're looking, where they might be, but right now it's still a waiting game to make sure everyone's out. of this building and that it is safe for investigators to enter and begin the search and we must mention thank you because, in fact, this involves a sex trafficking investigation.

We know that according to Diddy's lawyers and the rapper himself, he has denied any wrongdoing in all of this, so of course there are two sides to this as this all plays out, but it's interesting that these raids happen at the same time. same time, according to TMZ, there's a raid going on at his Miami

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right now and we're now seeing the live footage of what's happening at HBY Hills in this mansion here, all connected to Shan Colmes, so again Until we know more about what exactly they are looking for and why, we continue to analyze the procedures that are being carried out regarding this raid that Homeland Security is conducting.

It is supported by local law enforcement officials and we also saw from the ground that several agencies are seen there. part of all this and they have a number of resources on hand with a drone flying from above, as well as they had ladders to take a closer look at certain parts of the property, so they are looking at every corner they need. terms of why they are investigating this house and property so clearly this is going to take a while and as Haley mentioned with her shot on the ground right there, more people are coming to your area Haley, yes I would say it's mainly the media communication at At this point, we were the first on the scene, but yeah, given that there are probably a dozen different media agencies, yeah, it looks like their houses on both coasts are being

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, we still haven't gotten word on exactly where is P Didy, if he is. in fact, in New York right now or in Los Angeles and of course, yeah, we haven't seen it here in Homby Hills, this is right next to Sunset and Beverly Glenn and it all unfolded, I would say, about 30 minutes ago.

They're at his house here, they're also at his house in Miami, of course, it's a little quieter, I would say, than it was about 20 minutes ago when everything happened. The weapons that were taken out before have been there ever since. put away, it looks like they just put away their drone, but of course, they're doing a thorough job of going through the house for any kind of details they can find related to this, uh, these accusations against sex trafficking, like you said, Sandra, there are several lawsuits against him for these accusations, all of which he has denied, so we will have to wait and see, of course, and everyone is interested in the details of what, how he is connected, to these latest accusations and from your point of view, we bring the latest, I'm sorry, yes, from your point of view Haley, does it seem like some authorities are abandoning this scene right now?

They're done or not. It is not the case. More are coming. No. There seems to be more. coming um I think what you're seeing is just the vehicles moving to a different location, we're at the bottom of the hill, but if you go up a little bit more, some of the vehicles that you saw here before have since kind of gone to the other side from the hill, this is obviously a very prestigious neighborhood, huh, I said before. Humphrey Bogart's old house, I believe, is next to p dides, uh, in the 200 block here of Mapleton in HBY Hills, near Sunset, near Beverly.

Glenn, so the vehicles basically just moved forward. You're seeing a lot more of those Department of Homeland Security law enforcement officers though here on the street in Mapleton since they left the house after They did a thorough investigation inside that beautiful house that belongs to P didy to Shan Colmes, so I don't think Sandra has any intention of going anywhere anytime soon and overhead you can see police helicopters and of course Stu there on Sky Fox. Thank you so much Haley for that perspective on the ground right in front of that mansion from HBY Hills on Sky Fox.

It seems that yes, there are more law enforcement officers, but with different clothing, I should say suits instead of bulletproof vests. Definitely and you know and we all know how that works, the suits will be the researchers and probably the ones running the program and again I still think they're just waiting for that green light for them. They will be allowed onto the property and into areas that I would venture to say are probably pretty specific. I don't think they come in randomly and again this is just an assumption that they know. I don't think they're going to come in randomly, just go through everyone's stuff inside, they probably have an area that they know or an office that they're going to go through or some computers that they might want to physically get.

Get to work and that is what you are waiting for right now to enter this property. This is, like you said, a very beautiful house in the Homy Hills area and they're just hoping to get the

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CLE C to allow them in while these uh, while these officers that we see there with the tactical team Well, their job is to make sure that everything is safe for them to come in now, they probably won't and again I just want to make it clear that it's like no one is thinking that there are booby traps or some kind of sniper inside the house, that's not what they're thinking at all; it's probably more that they want to make sure everyone is out of the house because they don't want someone to go out or come out later and you know surprise or catch people off guard, that's not what they want and right now you can see things so, uh, Sandra, you've been saying that there's a large number of people here, I would dare say as far as Officers say I would probably put this group closer to 100, not just what we're seeing here, this is just a group of many who have come to this familiar Hills area and as far as the suits we were talking about. "That's part of the group there, but there are others also younger that were basically leading the charge and that's them, they actually perfected the timing and it looks like they're heading towards the house." they could be the first ones in to start that investigation process or figure out where we're going to look for what we're looking for and then later the suits will come in too, but that's like you said it was going to be a very long process here and this it's just the beginning and the people they had detained, they took them out of the area right now and again they didn't say they were arrested.

We don't know for a fact that they were detained, some of them still had wives, some of them didn't, so maybe this was a split of you know, these are people that we know work here, these are people that may be associated with Sha Colmes or Bad Boy Entertainment, so it's one of those types of situations and until they know who they are, they'll just keep them in custody and possibly let them go later and I don't think so. The word arrested has been used here so far, but again it's still a very active situation and of course that's a huge house and they have a lot of rooms to clean before they allow those investigators to have anyone on the line right now .

Hell, Kemper, thank you so much for joining us and, uh, if you can clarify what we're seeing in terms of Homeland Security entering Sha's mansion in the Hills, it's coming, uh, Sandra, this is a Homeland Security investigation that appears to be on the site, uh, what they're probably looking for is, well, I should say, generally, uh, they consider human trafficking and sex trafficking to be a component of that and of course there have been some pretty big civil lawsuits which Tak took. place, but also the New York case, where the statute limitations had basically been rescinded, allowing them to look back many years in this case, part of it was that there were allegations that he was drugging young women, so. that there was, you know, which you know, certainly implies that it was a violation, that it took place at some point, but I think what HSI is probably looking at is the interstate aspects, whether there was any online activity that could have taken place and , uh, and that's generally where HSI would have a jurisdictional interest.

Homeland Security investigations are part of the Department of Homeland Security uh looking at the interstate side primarily online and everything that took place across state lines and of course you know he travels all over. the place so I'm sure they're seeing him transporting women all over the country and if that was related to larger criminal activity yeah definitely Homeland Security involved in any interstate like you mentioned and international criminal activity here so What exactly do you think everyone is looking for right now? We saw such a large number of law enforcement officers come in. Well, it's a combination of both local and federal, and as I understand it, local law enforcement has the specific advantage in each.

One of these places with federal law invests.Federal investigators coming with them in concert and what they're probably looking for is some evidence that they can collect, certainly, any image, image, video, anything online. I have no doubt that they are going to come in and collect any electronic media including any laptop. uh, any, uh, flash drives, anything that you may have that could support any accusation, any reasonable suspicion that you have, that led to this, these search warrants, you know, just to get a search warrant like this, it's required a, you know. rather U uh you know there has to be some substantial legal barrier or a legal argument or a legal litmus test uh uh has to be met just to get them to sign, particularly knowing that someone with uh with means like this that if they come into At home they will encounter very capable attorneys on behalf of the defendants to question what was done and everything they do there will be questioned, so as you can imagine, they not only had to work with the district attorney. and potentially help the US lawyers organize this, but they are also being very careful in collecting any evidence and they realize that almost everything they do on the site will potentially be challenged in court by their lawyers and, speaking of their lawyers , we did it. reach out for comment we haven't heard back yet obviously we want to hear his side uh because Sean is coming.

The party has denied any allegations of sex trafficking and any investigation into it, but yes, this could take a long time in terms of collection. that hard drive and flash drives and any computer they can find, as I mentioned before H, it's very difficult to know where someone would have that or hide it if they were trying to hide evidence and we're looking at a big mansion. here, uh, before we talk to you again, Hal, let's go to Haley on the ground, hey Sandra, yeah, we just got that statement from the Department of Homeland Security that I was trying to get to them about 10 minutes ago, it doesn't say anything . a lot, but he says this is attributed to today's Homeland Security investigations.

Homeland Security Investigations New York executed law enforcement actions as part of an ongoing investigation with assistance from HSI Los Angeles, HSI Miami, and our local law enforcement partners. We will provide more information as it becomes available. is available, so nothing really that we haven't already told you, here at the scene, on the ground, a lot of Homeland Security law enforcement officers have come up the hill, you can see one of those big command vehicles coming out of one of While So, those police vehicles behind us, several of his friends, as they identified themselves, have been trying to get through the crime scene to get to the house, but of course the LAPD wouldn't let them through.

We have tried to get feedback from them. camera to see if they have more information about what's going on, but they haven't been able to, they don't want to provide us with any information, I should say, and in case you're joining us, we have P Didy's houses are being

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on both coasts, uh Miami and your home here in Hy Hills, so Haley just to clarify on that statement, did you tell me? She didn't mention Sean Colmes correctly or anything, but we have confirmation from multiple. law enforcement sources that this involves sha comes or P Diddy but no, I will read this statement one more time says earlier today Homeland Security Investigations New York executed law enforcement actions as part of an ongoing investigation with the assistance of HSI HSI of Los Angeles Miami and our local law enforcement partners are fine we will provide more information as it becomes available of course we are trying to get medicated on camera but they said the particular lady who sent me the statement says it is not allowed.

Thank you very much, yes, I don't really clarify much, but it is clearly understandable because, at this moment, they may not be in a position to divulge more information. Breaking news at 5. It's the video you first saw live on Fox 11. Homeland Security Agents. As Bearcats converge on the home of Sean Diddy Colmes, officials confirm the raid is linked to a sex trafficking investigation. welcome to Fox 11 News at 5. I'm Christine Divine, I'm Alex Michelson, I was just here at the com house in Miami. I just found out that they also searched his house in Miami. Fox 11 was the first on the scene and the first to report this breaking news to our

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Chelsea Edwards discusses the other allegations Diddy is facing. The first Fox Els Haley Winslow joins us. live from HBY Hills with more information on what investigators were looking for for Haley Christine and Alex, yes we are still trying to get all the details and get more information basically from investigators but here at Hills it's not really a gated community, but your house is. closed, it's still behind this police tape right here up this hill on the right where you still see a lot of undercover police cars that are parked there, but apparently there's a guard that's on the property and when all this broke down, for Of course we were.

The first one here to tell you about this we were right down the street and we were actually in the middle of a caravan of sorts, the convoy of these 40 or 50 different police cars, all undercover and this is run by the Department of Homeland Security . LD Security and LAPD are also here helping. It has been going on for several hours since about 1: p.m. in fact, and from Sky Fox you can see the officers come in and they detained three people, one of them pulled out, you can see it from Sky Fox and taking him out, we still don't know how they are related.

This investigation or what they are accused of, they were not actually arrested, but they were detained and while all this was happening, their house in Miami was also being raided, now again we know that this is related to sex trafficking. accusations, but we don't know those details yet, we're still waiting on them from Homeland Security, but this all happened on Mapleton Drive, this is right near Sunset in Beverly Glenn, which became an absolute mad house, it started with just hundreds of officers. literally and then just me and my photographer and we became a lot of spectators, there was even a celebrity tour bus that came by here trying to find out what was going on so as soon as we get more information about these accusations of course we will bring Se I'm telling you, but for now reporting live here at h Hills.

I'm Haly Winslow Fox. 11 new Homeland Security agents converge on Sha Diddy Combes' house. L officials confirm the raid is linked to a sex trafficking investigation. We have live team

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. Gina Silva. She takes a closer look at a lawsuit and its allegations of sexual assault and drugging of underage girls. We start with Chelsea Edwards live from H Hills with one of the investigators we are looking for tonight Chelsea Christine one of the many burning questions today is where was Sha Diddy Colmes while these raids were taking place at her residences? There is now video supposedly showing him in Miami this afternoon, but officials have not yet confirmed whether she is in custody or not, as you can see. the street has now opened towards her HBY Hills Home.

The investigators finished here a couple of hours ago. Fox 11 was first to the ground, placing the armored vehicles in the driveway and into the sky as heavily armed federal officials descended on Sha Diddy Colmes HBY. Hills Mansion The Homeland Security-led raid is allegedly linked to a federal investigation into sex trafficking. I came and I was here the whole time and I never even knew that this is Mr. Sale. Some neighbors say the strong response seemed unnecessary. We're surrounded by $50 $50 million mansion like where is the threat like it wasn't necessary like why did you bring all that here Sky Fox was up high while some people were detained and held outside it's still unclear where Mogul rap was at the time of raids his house in Miami was also raided in a similar way, there are many things that are unclear, except that Shawn Diddy came and a large number of armed people invaded his house in Los Angeles and, uh, Miami, this afternoon, that could be in part to show that it could be in part.

A Statement Variety executive music editor Jim Azwad has been covering Diddy's legal troubles for years, including multiple separate sexual assault allegations. There have been rumors like this for years and decades about this type of behavior on his part. I don't know if they are true. or not, you know, yeah, he could be a nasty person, that's widely available on video. Many really successful people can be innocent until proven guilty, one would hope from a legal point of view. Aswad says Diddy is probably ready for a showdown. I would do it. They say he has the strongest possible legal team representing him and, frankly, he can afford it.

Investigators declared the homy Hills Home all day long, their media from around the world gathered and celebrity tour buses drove by continually, leave Puffy alone, man. It's all crazy, it's always shit, this is the United States. We have now reached out to Diddy's team for comment on these raids. We have not yet received a response reporting live from Homie Hills. I'm Chelsea Edwards. I'll send it back to you, Christine and Alex. right, Chelsea, thanks, at 10:30, Fox 11's Gina Silva reveals the explosive allegations Colmes faces in a new lawsuit involving sex trafficking, underage girl drugs and hidden cameras, plus insights from a prominent attorney local who shares his vision of what could be next. for the pop music mogul local story right now on the raid on Sha Diddy's La residence by federal agents this is a story we published here on Fox 11 Mario Ramirez is outside his home at the Hills home in this moment with the latest developments for us good morning Good morning, quiet at the moment, but it was a chaotic scene with federal agents running into the house.

Here behind me there were two separate raids, one here in this exclusive neighborhood and the other in Miami, both connected to a federal sex trafficking investigation. Take a look Fox 11 was the first to show you the raid here led locally by heavily armed federal Homeland Security agents who entered the home on Mapleton Drive associated with rap mogul Sha Diddy Comes and his production company Bad Boy Films. Dozens of officers searched the property for hours. leaving with boxes of evidence a similar scene at the Miami Beach property listed in his name and the property is classified in connection with a sex trafficking investigation, although Department of Homeland Security officials have not named Diddy as the focus of the 54 year old man. been at the center of several allegations of sexual assault and sex trafficking, uh, sex trafficking in the last year, that's something Variety's executive music editor has been covering extensively.

I've heard rumors like this for years, for decades, about this kind of behavior from him, um, I don't know. know if they are true or not, you know yes, he could be an unpleasant person, I mean, it is widely available on video, many really successful people can be innocent until proven guilty, one would hope and you can see it here in this video . from TMZ showing the hip-hop producer pacing outside a customs office at the Miami airport after the properties were raided and this was also after federal agents reportedly detained him while questioning him moments before go back live to the raid that took place here.

Yesterday on h Hill we saw some people detained by authorities, reportedly Diddy's two sons who were questioned and released reporting live here on HBY Hills. I'm Mario Ramírez, with you again, very good, Mario, thank you very much e e e e for Live on YouTube Hello. YouTube, I'm sorry, I didn't know that and I don't know if they just came to us, but let's do some YouTube if you want, so if they come back, I don't know and I don't have internet, so I can. I don't even really answer your questions or find out where we've been or what's been going on, but I'm definitely looking at a property that was or is owned by P Diddy or Sean.

I don't know him well enough. I'm going to call him Mr. He's Coming and Bad Boy Entertainment is his production company, so apparently there's some kind of ongoing investigation involving him and, uh, they had Homeland Security, of all things, come here today with armored vehicles, you know, these. guys dressed like in their best tactical gear, guns, night vision goggles, everything, everything, the drones were flying and they made their way towards this property that you see there right now, early, early, they took what we counted six. people outside the house outside this property now there are actually three buildings here you have the housemain one right there, then you have this other one that I would almost call a back house or maybe the pool house or the guest house and then you have a smaller one that is actually behind some trees right above it.

I would almost dare to say it again. I don't know, you know who knows what they're using it for. I'm just venturing to guess, but I have another residence here with a hot tub in the back, maybe it actually belongs to someone who lives on site, who is a caretaker, I don't know, but they came in and almost They immediately had six people in custody. people actually came out not of the Range Rover not of the Range Rover that was the first thing they did they opened that door they went in there and they opened the doors of the Range Rover they came out of there they came out of there um I don't know why I don't know.

I know it's a garage. I do not have information. I'm just talking about what we saw when we got here and one by one they were taken away and to start with they were all handcuffed and then he started taking the handcuffs off and some were still handcuffed but arrested I wouldn't use that word that word I would say in custody they had them here they were talking to them uh taking pictures of them just talking and then they put them all in a vehicle and they've been gone since they left the scene now I don't know who they were uh I can tell you probably if it had been like that believe me we would know that we don't know who those people were that were the caretakers uh Property Management who knows, honestly, it could be the pool guy for all I know, but anyway we saw that happen before about what's happening right now, well, several of those armored guys are still inside this house you see here, the main building, and me.

I've got you at the ifb there if you're yelling at me um and uh and then they went in there and it was one of those things where it's talking about it on TV, it's a little different than on the internet, one of the main concerns for the forces Law enforcement is a situation like this, so let's say someone is on someone's property, you know who this person is, but they see armed people coming through the doors and they have no idea what's going on. They don't know it's law enforcement, they don't know, for all they know, they could be thieves, so someone could be hiding in one of these rooms in here and that person could also be armed, so that's one of The reasons it's taking so long to secure the building is what I'm saying is because you don't want the investigators to do their investigation in four hours and have someone kick open a door with a gun and start, you know. who are you?

They do not know? It sounds like I'm making fun of it, but really that's the scary scenario they're trying to avoid, so that was one of the reasons why it is like that. taking so long, we were also talking about all the legal ease that exists about how this happens, this is not like someone said, hey, I heard you know Sean has this and this and this and this or Mr. Diddy or Mr. Colmes. You know, something is happening and they just say, "Let's ride and ride," a lot of things happened before this actually happened and this is also a coordinated raid.

We also understand that his home in Miami was also raided. I have no idea what exactly they are looking for. I'll be very honest about it. I didn't even know there were legal issues with Shan Combs and honestly, I don't have any of those types of components. All I can tell you is that now this is in the Homeby Hills area, that's his house that you see there and now he has a command post out front and that command post belongs to Homeland Security. You have several armored vehicles, most of them. of them belonging to AR, uh, to Homeland Security, we have one there, a couple of them in the driveway and we saw one too.

I believe it was a sheriff's vehicle that has since left the area, but there are still several Homeland Security officers out there. and I'm talking about the soldiers, I'm talking about the kind of guys that are still here and I would venture to say probably 40 to 50 of them and then there are younger guys too, probably. uh you know, it would be the investigators and then you also have some suits that eventually came and they all went into that house, that's what's happening right now that we've been talking about and even I feel for me that it's not happening. my tongue at all to say that this is all about sex trafficking and um you know, I heard that only butami knows Behavior done on this property us through all of this that no one what we are kind of the Internet but I also have to say encouragement Rel so I who left is him no oh uh e e e e e e e e for