we're now getting a closer look at the mountains of evidence Federal investigators collected at the homes of P Diddy leading up to his indictment this includes things like guns ammunition electronic evidence and more than a thousand bottles of baby oil and personal lubricant to understand all this and how it relates to Diddy's case we're hearing from former CIA officer and FBI agent Tracy Walder I'm SI Gillespie and this is long crime news major news this week out of New York where now disgraced rapper sha P Diddy comes was arrested and taken into custody on Monday
a grand jury indicted him on multiple federal charges including racketeering conspiracy sex trafficking by forc fraud or coercion and transportation to engage in prostitution Homeland Security took Diddy into custody at the Park Hyatt in New York according to his legal team Diddy's been in the city for the past week ahead of these anticipated charges so Diddy may have had a heads up that these charges were on the way but it wasn't a complete surprise to the rest of us either Federal investigators issued search warrants on two of Diddy's homes this spring and that's when experts
told us it's not if but when Diddy will be arrested we couldn't confirm then that Diddy was the target of the search but we had a good idea what investigators were looking for electronic evidence of alleged illegal acts like sexual assault or racketeering these allegations date back to November of last year when Cassandra Ventura know known publicly as the singer Cassie filed civil suit against Diddy she laid out some major claims against him saying over the course of their relationship Diddy physically and emotionally abused her forced her to carry illegal weapons and even made her
have sex with prostitutes the lawsuit was settled outside of Court just one day after it was filed but it was just the start of the wave of lawsuits that Diddy would soon face over the next few months multiple other accusers came forward with civil suits alleging Diddy's pattern of sexual abuse dated back as far as the 1990s a civil suit filed by Rodney Jones also known as the producer lilrod brings these accusations into 2024 according to Lil Rod's lengthy suit Diddy is the Kingpin in a gun trafficking drug trafficking and sex trafficking scheme lilrod also
accused Diddy of sexual assault and echoed Cassie's allegation that Diddy forced him to have sex with a prostitute Lil Rod's lawsuit includes something else that may have piqued the fed's interest he alleges there are hundreds of hours of video and audio recordings of Diddy's illegal Behavior we now know this is what the feds were searching for on March 25th when they executed search warrants at Diddy's homes in Los Angeles and Miami at the time we only speculated that investigators collected electronic evidence but now we know for sure according to the indictment against Diddy investigators seized
more than a thousand bottles of baby oil and lubricant from his home the court doc States these items were used in something referred to as free golfs which were elaborate and produced sex performances that Combs arranged directed masturbated during and often electronically recorded in arranging these freak offs Combs with the assistance of members and Associates of the Combs Enterprise transported and caused to be transported commercial sex workers across state lines and internationally during freak offs Combs distributed a variety of Controlled Substances to victims in part to keep the victims obedient and compliant sometimes unbeknownst to
the victims coms kept videos he filmed of victims engaging in sex acts with commercial sex workers after freak offs Combs and the victims typically received IV fluids to recover from the physical exertion and drug use so Diddy's business employees allegedly facilitated these freak offs by stocking the hotel rooms in advance with the required freak off supplies including Controlled Substances baby oil lubricants extra Linens and lighting clean the hotel rooms after the free gooss to try to mitigate room damage arranging for travel for victims commercial sex workers and combs to and from Freak offs resupplying Combs
with the requested supplies delivering large sums of cash to Combs to pay the commercial sex workers and scheduling the delivery of IV fluids so these items were collected during the federal raids including narcotics and hundreds of bottles of lube and baby oil there were also electronic files of these freak offs and the FEDS collected those too in addition to all all this investigators seized AR-15 guns ammunition and a large capacity drum magazine from Diddy's home since those raids in March Federal prosecutors have been crafting their case against Diddy which led to Grand Jury proceedings against
him so he was indicted on Monday and taken into custody and on Tuesday that indictment was unsealed also on Tuesday Diddy appeared in federal court where he pleaded not guilty to the charges against him during the hearing Diddy was also denied bail a federal judge ruling he must remain in custody until trial with all that in mind let's take a closer look at what exactly the feds collected from Diddy's homes for that we turn to former CIA officer and FBI agent Tracy Walder this indictment that just came down I know we were kind of expecting
it to happen but when it did what were your thoughts yeah you know I had expected and I'd said before that I thought we'd get an indictment within six to 9 months people weren't happy with me because they thought that was just too long um but it was almost exactly six months actually since the warrants were served on both of his homes I think it's not a surprise to me because because I'm glad he's being charged with this um I wholeheartedly thought that he would have a RICO a racketeering charge I I knew that that
would be something that they would get him on I was concerned that they wouldn't get him on human trafficking because sometimes that can be really difficult to prove and I just always worry that those cases fall through the Crocs and then Justice isn't served for the victims and so I was pleased to see that he was charged with that um so that hopefully he could be held accountable much of the evidence that the prosecution now has against Diddy came from the federal rats talking about a federal search warrant what does that look like just generically
right so in this case and I I don't recall if I talked to you about this or maybe Jesse but in when that warrant was served back in March but you know the question was is if they served the warrant why can't they just arrest him and again you mentioned they probably didn't have enough evidence at that time to do so however to get a warrant like that where it served simultaneously and you know in a surprising manner they really had to prove two things one of two things excuse me the first being that evidence
was imminently going to be destroyed or that the lives of people were in danger I believe that it was the former that they were probably able to prove is that evidence may have been going to be destroyed and that's why they served the warrants and that's why they were able to serve the warrants to preserve that evidence I feel like a lot of us who don't have experience in the FBI or CIA we just picture movies or TV shows when you see people come in and going opening drawers and closets and going through everything but
what does it really look like when they're there on the ground serving these Federal warrant yeah I mean in a case like this obviously you're not making any kind of a dynamic entry this isn't a hostage situation right where you're that's that's not what's happening here however they did know that there would be weapons there armed security those kinds of things that's why you saw those warrants being served um by for the most part a tactical SWAT team um simply that is procedure to keep everyone safe um a lot of people were frustrated when they
saw the video that came out of the warrant that his home was you know in I guess disarray but again and I had said this before my my gut said they were looking for digital evidence which is in that indictment there's a lot of mentions to digital evidence and that's why they tore up couch cushions that's why they made holes in walls they were looking for flash drives tiny devices uh where these things were stored and so all of that is done methodically it's all cataloged and in a case like this where you're not necessarily
rushing you know to put out a fire or something like that it was all done in a very methodical way you typically go through uh room by room to catalog all that evidence taking a closer look at all that evidence Diddy had three AR-15 seized during the federal raids that had been defaced what do you think that would look like though because weapons obviously are very dangerous we don't want them to go off how is how is that collected well they typically clear the weapon right they're going to go ahead and take the cartridge out
of it and make sure that there are no rounds obviously in the chamber um and then disassemble it to be taken back um as evidence what's interesting is the AR-15s that they found so some people have AR-15s it's it's legal in some places um but they found that the serial number was was scraped off of them um and that I thought was interesting because I don't know if Diddy didn't want those traceable to him or if he had received them on on the black market you know what's interesting is that we just recently in the
second attempted assassination of former president Donald Trump we saw those federal charges for tampering with the weapon where he the um alleged attempted assassin scraped off off or made not legible the serial number so why is it that Diddy might not have received charges like that so in terms of Mr Ralph that's the individual um currently charged um in that I believe those are just simply placeholder charges if you want me to be honest with you I don't think they're really going to move forward with those I think they're going to go with much larger
charges but they haven't had the element of time right that they've had with Diddy they arrested him immediately after 45 minutes after um this attempt and so they did what they could with what they had at that particular moment in time to keep him in custody and so I think that's why you didn't see those with Diddy these are much larger charges with didy they don't need those kind of placeholder charges to keep him in jail um until they can get more so that's that's why I think you don't see those as far as the
AR-15s ammunition I know that they mentioned a drum magazine as well where are those stored now where does all of that go um an Evidence Locker of some sort I'm assuming to the FBI the FBI bi their local office will have an Evidence Locker that takes in all of that cataloges it and keeps it together basically by on a Case by case basis it's all labeled based on a Case another thing that was collected during all of this is narcotics so there are legal drugs like meth and also prescription drugs too I'm wondering if Federal
investigators are going to look and track down Who provided these to Diddy where was the source for these prescription or other street drugs that were in the home you know I think that that's a possibility especially based on what we saw with Matthew Perry and the ketamine queen and the doctors and all the other I think five individuals who were ultimately charged um in that they may be going on different sort of avenues uh in terms of charging I don't think they're done in terms of of charging and I I do think with this recent
Crackdown um on this that they very well may go after those individuals whomever the suppliers were another thing that everyone seems to be talking about from this indictment is the 1,000 bottles of baby oil and personal lubricant that were collected between Diddy's two homes this one really stood out to me I guess what do you just make of that I don't know a way to say this based on what was in the indictment regarding these freak offs that were that's what they call them in here I think that's what didd he called them quite frankly
the severity at which they were the length and duration at which they they were I'm actually not surprised that that's what was collected ultimately from his home it's absolutely horrific the fact that some of these people needed that some of these victims needed IV rehydration afterwards couldn't go out because they were so injured um as a result of this it's it's absolutely horrific and now based on what we've learned of the magnitude of those freak offs it's unfortunately not surprising what would it look like for investigators to go through and I guess document everything that
they have as far as the electronic evidence while maintaining the anonymity of the survivors I guess right and I think that's why in the indictment you really don't hear much mentioned of victims if you know for those who have read it there's victim one that is mentioned in it but there are no names um that are mentioned and I believe that that's done on purpose the prosecution wants to have a rapport with these victims to continue to get information from them and we don't want to anous way um is what we should be doing uh
with these victims but I I think part of the issue part of what took some time actually in terms of going through all of this as you mentioned there was video evidence of these freak offs you have to go through now and identify everyone who is in those videos and that really can take some time it's a very tedious task I don't know that they were able to identify every single person um that appeared in these videos but I am certain that they were able to identify some of them and those are the interviews that
they did and that's what ultimately led to an indictment these are some of the major things that people are talking about because they were mentioned in the indictment but is it possible that the fuds collected even more information that we don't know about yet it may come out at trial 100% I'm certain of it um I think someone said oh this this a big indictment 14 pages in my opinion it's actually not that big um I I've seen bigger indictments um which in my opinion also leads me to believe that all of the evidence is
not included in it um and they're entitled to do that if you actually look at the Brian koberger case they didn't include all the evidence in the indictment yes it needs to be handed over to the defense obviously um but it doesn't need to necessarily be in the indictment you only need to put in the information that led to it um and so my guess is they have more uh they just didn't put it all in there then there's the time frame to consider from the raids in March all the way to the grand jury
and indictment in September so that's six months of prosecutors Gathering evidence investigators going through it you said methodically making sure that they have all their ducks in a row so to speak what would that part of it actually look like would they highlight or flag something that they thought would bolster the prosecution's case when they came across it I've never thought about it from you know the prosecution defense point of view I just thought about it from the FBI agent point of view because um obviously our biggest thing is making sure that we collect the
evidence properly la log it properly and process it properly because if we don't it cannot be used by the prosecution or by the defense so then that is problematic also the biggest thing you know if you are looking at bringing someone up on charges particularly Federal ones the reality is is we want to make sure we almost have overabundance of evidence to almost overc convict um the individual and so I think that's from an FBI perspective what they were working on on top of Diddy's three federal charges Tracy says other charges could be on the
way yeah I think one of the things in reading the indictment you know this is all in video right a lot of this is on video and I would be interested to see if other people are going to be charged um I know they talked about the fact that people procured uh some of these individuals for them and and drugs and all of that and so I would be interested to know if any of those people uh will face charges at some point um I I don't know the answer to that but I think that
these victims deserve that uh quite frankly because of of what was done to them so I'll be interested to see if more charges come out um against some of the individuals who facilitated this following Diddy's indictment on Monday he pleaded not guilty to charges on Tuesday a statement from his legal team reads quote sha ddy comes is a music icon self-made entrepreneur loving familyman and proven philanthropist who has spent the last 30 years building an empire adoring his children and working to uplift the black community he is an imperfect person but is not criminal to
his credit Mr comes has been nothing but Cooperative with this investigation and he voluntarily relocated to New York last week in anticipation of these charges please reserve your judgment until you have all the facts these are the acts of an innocent man with nothing to hide and he looks forward to clearing his name in court for more Diddy content and every update that develops make sure to subscribe to YouTube channel reporting for long crime I'm Sierra Gillespie
