Ex-Syracuse basketball star Brendan Paul arrested as Diddy’s drug mule: Who’s he?

Brendan Paul, the person arrested at a Florida airport earlier this week and who had been accused of being Sean “Diddy” Combs’ “drug mule,” is a former Syracuse College males’s basketball participant.

Federal brokers raided Combs’s LA mansion on the identical day Mr Paul was apprehended at Opa Locka Airport airport in Miami earlier than he might board a personal jet.

Mr Paul was lately named in a lawsuit filed by Rodney Jones, a music producer, who alleged that the previous basketball participant was Combs’ “mule” and labored to collect and distribute weapons for the rapper.

Within the lawsuit, Mr Jones says he “personally witnessed” Mr Paul both transport or attempt to transport unlawful medicine on flights between LA, Miami, Virginia, the Caribbean, and London on three events.

Mr Paul has not but made any public remark personally or by means of an legal professional addressing the allegations or his arrest.

On the day he was arrested, Mr Paul allegedly had contraband within the type of cocaine inside his journey baggage.

The 25-year-old was booked for cocaine and managed substance possession and launched on Tuesday after posting a $2,500 bail, per Miami-Dade County court docket information. His first listening to is scheduled for twenty-four April.

Regardless of allegedly working as an affiliate of Combs, Mr Paul’s residence lists him as dwelling together with his dad and mom of their Chagrin Falls, Ohio, dwelling.

Mr Paul performed at Syracuse after attending Brewster Academy, a personal boarding college in New Hampshire, and Hawken Excessive College in Ohio.

After two years at Syracuse, he transferred to Fairmont State for the 2020-21 season, the place he performed for one more two years.

After his faculty enjoying profession ended he reportedly turned an beginner music producer, based on the New York Publish.

He produced for Combs on The Love Album, which is probably going how the pair met.

Mr Paul was arrested whereas with Combs on the airport in Miami. The pair had been trying to board Combs’s non-public airplane when federal brokers swooped in and took the 25-year-old into custody.

Federal brokers later raided Combs’s dwelling and seized laptop gear and different proof allegedly related to an ongoing intercourse trafficking investigation.

Combs has denied any wrongdoing, and has referred to as the investigation a “witch hunt.” He additionally accused federal officers of utilizing “extreme pressure” in opposition to his kids and employees throughout their raid of his dwelling.

“Yesterday, there was a gross overuse of military-level pressure as search warrants had been executed at Mr. Combs’ residences. There is no such thing as a excuse for the extreme present of pressure and hostility exhibited by authorities or the best way his kids and staff had been handled,” Combs’ legal professional, Aaron Dyer, stated in an announcement.