Diddy's Los Angeles and Miami homes raided by federal agents, authorities say

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GOOD MONDAY AFTERNOON

ON KAYNA WHITWORTH HERE IN LOS

ANGELES.

AND WE START WITH SOME BREAKING

NEWS HERE ON ABC NEWS LIVE.

LAW ENFORCEMENT SOURCES

ARE TELLING ABC NEWS THAT

RIGHT NOW AUTHORITIES

ARE CARRYING OUT SEARCHES

AT PROPERTIES ASSOCIATED WITH P

DIDDY.

THIS IS PART OF A FEDERAL

INVESTIGATION INTO HUMAN

TRAFFICKING.

THEY SAY THAT THIS

INVESTIGATION HAS BEEN ONGOING

NOW FOR SEVERAL.

THEY ADD OUR SOURCES THAT AN

ARREST DOES APPEAR TO BE

IMMINENT AT THIS TIME.

BUT WHAT YOU ARE LOOKING

AT RIGHT NOW IS LIVE VIDEO

OF ONE OF THESE SEARCHES

BEING CONDUCTED.

NOW, THIS IS A SEARCH THAT IS

HAPPENING AT SEAN DIDDY COMBS,

LOS ANGELES HOME.

THIS IS IN THE BEVERLY HILLS

AREA.

AS YOU SEE, A TREMENDOUS AMOUNT

OF LAW ENFORCEMENT PRESENCE

THERE ALL AROUND HOME.

SO THIS SEARCH JUST BEGAN HERE.

THERE'S ALSO, AS WE UNDERSTAND

,SEARCH BEING CONDUCTED

ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE

COUNTRY IN MIAMI, BECAUSE WE

ARE HEARING FROM HOMELAND

SECURITY THAT THERE

ARE INVESTIGATIONS GOING

ON USING THE ASSISTANCE OF HCI

,LOS ANGELES AND HCI MIAMI

ALONG WITH LOCAL LAW

ENFORCEMENT PARTNERS.

WE DO UNDERSTAND THAT THEY

WILL PROVIDE US WITH UPDATES

AS POSSIBLE.

BUT THIS GOES INTO MULTIPLE

ALLEGATIONS AGAINST SEAN DIDDY

COMBS.

THE YEARS THERE HAVE BEEN

SEVERAL CIVIL SUITS AGAINST HIM

AS WELL, INCLUDING HUMAN

TRAFFICKING, ALL OF WHICH

HE HAS DENIED AS THIS HAS BEEN

ONGOING.

BUT AGAIN, CLEARLY AN

ESCALATION THAT WE ARE SEEING

PLAY OUT LIVE RIGHT NOW, LOS

ANGELES.

I WANT TO BRING IN OUR

ABC NEWS CONTRIBUTOR AND TRIAL

ATTORNEY BRIAN BUCKMIRE, WHO I

KNOW.

BRIAN, YOU HAVE BEEN FOLLOWING

THIS CASE FOR MANY MONTHS

AND YOU BRING IT UP TO ME

ALL THE TIME.

NOW, I WOULDN'T CALL THIS

THE CULMINATION.

IN FACT, PROBABLY THIS IS THE

BEGINNING.

RIGHT.

SO WHAT DO YOU MAKE OF THE FACT

THAT THEY'VE DECIDED CARRY OUT

THESE TWO SEARCHES

SIMULTANEOUSLY AND ON SIDES

OF THE COUNTRY HERE?

>> SO YOU'RE RIGHT.

I'VE BEEN TALKING TO THOSE

ABOUT THIS FAR TOO LONG.

BUT WHAT WHAT DOES IT GET YOU?

>> WHAT DOES A PERSON NEED

TO HAVE THE ABILITY TO SEARCH

A HOME?

PROBABLE CAUSE SO WHAT I'M

DOING IS I'M LOOKING BACKWARDS.

HOW COULD A JUDGE GRANT

THE ABILITY SEARCH THESE

TWO HOMES?

AND WHY WOULD YOU DO IT

SIMULTANEOUSLY?

PROBABLE CAUSE BEING BELIEF, OR

AT LEAST HAVING THE QUANTITY

OF INFORMATION THE CRIME EITHER

DID HAPPEN IS HAPPENING OR

IS GOING TO HAPPEN.

THAT'S HOW ENFORCEMENT

MUST HAVE TO PROVE TO A

JUDGE OR A COURT WHY THEY HAVE

THE OPPORTUNITY OR THE LEGAL

ABILITY TO SEARCH SOMEONE'S

HOME.

NOW, WHY WOULD YOU DO IT

IN CONJUNCTION FROM

ONE PROPERTY AND ANOTHER AT THE

SAME?

LAW ENFORCEMENT TYPICALLY DOES

THIS BECAUSE THEY ARE WORRIED

THAT INFORMATION OR PROPERTY OR

EVIDENCE MAY BE HIDDEN AWAY OR

WHILE YOU'RE SEARCHING

ONE PROPERTY.

AND SO THEY'RE LOOKING FOR

SOMETHING CORROBORATE

THE BELIEF THAT THEY HAVE THAT

A CRIME DID OCCUR.

AND AS YOU POINTED EARLIER,

HE'S FACING MULTIPLE

ALLEGATIONS OF TRAFFICKING.

PERHAPS THAT IS A CRIME

IN WHICH THEY'RE INVESTIGATING,

PERHAPS THAT IS WHY

THEY'RE TRYING TO SEEK

MORE INFORMATION FROM.

BUT IN ORDER TO SEARCH A HOME,

YOU HAVE TO PROBABLE CAUSE.

>> THE ONLY QUESTION

IS PROBABLE CAUSE OF WHAT?

PROBABLE CAUSE.

AND SO, BRIAN, AS YOU LOOK

AT THIS AND WATCH THIS AND WILL

SHOUT IF WE SEE ANYTHING, ANY

MORE MOVEMENT ON THESE SCREENS

,BUT IT IS IMPORTANT TO NOTE,

RIGHT, THAT THIS IS ALL

BEING RUN OUT OF THE SOUTHERN

DISTRICT OF, NEW YORK HERE.

SO THERE IS A TREMENDOUS AMOUNT

OF COORDINATION HAPPENING

WITHIN LAW ENFORCEMENT AT THE

HIGHEST LEVELS.

>> ABSOLUTELY.

AND THE REASON WHY?

I BELIEVE IT'S BEING

COORDINATED OUT OF THE CITY.

AND WHY ARE THE SOUTHERN

DISTRICT OF NEW YORK

ENCOMPASSES, FOR THE MOST PART,

MANHATTAN IS A LOT OF THE

SIMILAR ALLEGATION STEMMING

FROM THERE, WHETHER IT

BE CASSIE OR THE OTHER

FOUR ALLEGATIONS OR CIVIL

LAWSUITS THAT STEMMED FROM IT

AFTERWARDS.

AND SO WHAT IT APPEARS TO BE,

IT MEANS IF YOU'RE THINKING

THIS IS CONNECTED TO THE CIVIL

LAWSUITS, ARE THAT THE FDNY

IS COORDINATING WITH THE OTHER

AGENCIES IN MIAMI, AS WELL

AS LOS ANGELES, TO SEARCH

THE PROPERTIES OF SEAN COMBS

TO SEE IF THERE'S ANY EVIDENCE

OF THAT.

NOW, I CAN'T THINK OF ANYTHING

OFF THE TOP OF MY HEAD.

WHAT WOULD BE EVIDENCE OF

TRAFFICKING PREDOMINANTLY,

SOMETHING THAT MIGHT STICK OUT

AS TO SOMETHING TO CORROBORATE

WHAT HEARD THESE CIVIL

ALLEGATIONS.

BUT IF THEY FIND IT, IT COULD

TO FURTHER INVESTIGATIONS.

AT THIS POINT, WE'RE HEARING

THAT THERE'S NO POTENTIAL

ARRESTS, BUT IT DOESN'T MEAN

THEY WANT TO BE ONE IN

THE FUTURE BASED ON EITHER

MORE INFORMATION OR IF THERE

ARE FINDING WHATEVER IT IS THAT

THEY'RE HOPING TO FIND A MEANS

TO LOCATIONS.

>> AND BRIAN, WE DO WANT

TO MENTION THAT WE WERE

INITIALLY WHAT WE'RE SHOWING

OUR VIEWERS HERE IS A HOME

IN LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA NEAR

BEVERLY HILLS.

THAT IS NOT THE CASE OF WHAT

YOU'RE SEEING ON YOUR VIDEO

ON YOUR SCREEN IS, IN FACT,

MIAMI.

AND THEN THEY ARE ALSO

SEARCHING A HOME SIMULTANEOUSLY

IN LOS ANGELES, IN THE BEVERLY

HILLS AREA, THE EXACT

SAME TIME.

AND TO BRIAN'S POINT HERE,

THAT LAW ENFORCEMENT THAT OFTEN

IN AN EFFORT TO MAKE SURE

THAT THESE SEARCHES CAN

BE CONDUCTED WITHOUT SORT

OF TIPPING OFF ANYONE ELSE

THAT MIGHT BE INVOLVED

BUT DOESN'T ANYONE ANY TIME

TO DO ANYTHING QUESTIONABLE

WITH EVIDENCE.

SO YOU'RE GETTING A LARGER SHOT

THERE.

YOU CAN SEE NOW HOW CLOSE

THAT HOME IS TO THE WATER.

AS OUR AFFILIATE HELICOPTER

IS FLYING OVER THIS HOME AGAIN

IN MIAMI, AS IT IS BEING

SEARCHED AND.

AND I WANT TO NOW BRING IN OUR

ABC NEWS CONTRIBUTOR AND FORMER

FBI AGENT BRAD GARRETT

BRIAN BUCKMIRE.

DON'T GO ANYWHERE BECAUSE

I HAVE SEVERAL MORE QUESTIONS

FOR YOU AS WELL.

BUT, BRAD, AS YOU'RE

WATCHING THIS, FIRST OF ALL,

CAN YOU EXPLAIN TO US, BRAD,

WHAT THAT VEHICLE IS THAT WE'RE

SEEING RIGHT THERE, THAT BIG

WHITE TRUCK?

WELL, I CAN'T SEE I DON'T

HAVE A SCREEN UP TO SEE IT,

BUT IT LOOKS LIKE A CARGO TRUCK

OR LOOKS LIKE A ANY SORT TRUCK

THAT YOU COULD PUT EVIDENCE

INTO.

SO THAT WE DON'T KNOW

WHAT THEY'RE LOOKING FOR.

>> I CAN GIVE YOU A LIST

OF WHAT I THINK THEY'RE LOOKING

FOR IS THAT YOU HAVE TO HAVE

A CRIME SCENE SEARCH VEHICLE

TO GO IN WITH THE VARIOUS

THINGS YOU NEED DO TO SEARCH.

SO MY GUESS IS IT'S

THAT BECAUSE MY SENSE WAS THIS

WAS IT, THEY WEREN'T GOING

THERE TO ARREST ANYBODY.

THIS WAS TO DO A SEARCH.

AND SO THEY TOOK EVERYONE

PROBABLY THE EVIDENCE RESPONSE

TEAMS OF NAVY, THE FBI AND DHS

TO DO THIS SEARCH.

YEAH.

SO A LARGE VEHICLE TO COLLECT

EVIDENCE.

IT DOES ALSO LOOK LIKE IT HAS

SOME KIND OF SATELLITE UP

IN THE AIR AS WELL.

WE'RE ALSO SEEING LOCAL NEWS

IN THE AREA AND YOU'RE SEEING

A LAW ENFORCEMENT, BRAD,

OF WALKING DOWN A VERY LONG

DRIVEWAY TO, ENTER THE HOME

AND YOU'RE NOT SEEING YOU KNOW,

IT'S NOT A CHAOTIC SCENE AT

ALL.

DEFINITELY NOT IN HERE.

RIGHT.

OUR SOURCES ARE SAYING THAT AN

ARREST AT THIS POINT IS NOT

IMMINENT.

RIGHT.

SO, YOU KNOW, QUICKLY, LET'S

WHY DID.

WHY WERE THEY ABLE TO GO

IN THERE TO BRIAN'S POINT?

HOW DID THEY CONVINCE A JUDGE

TO GO IN THERE?

YOU HAVE TO HAVE A LINK

DIRECTLY TO THESE TWO HOUSES.

IN OTHER WORDS, DO THEY HAVE

VIDEO OF OF THESE SOME OF THESE

ACTS THAT ARE BEING ALLEGED

IN EITHER LOCATION OR BOTH

LOCATIONS?

IS THERE ARE THERE WITNESSES?

PEOPLE HAVE COME FORWARD.

OF COURSE, PEOPLE COME FORWARD.

>> CAN THEY PUT AN AX IN THESE

HOUSES AND MAYBE THEY WERE

THERE FIRSTHAND?

>> IS THERE CCTV THAT CAN BE.

DOES HE ACTUALLY HAVE VIDEO

THAT HE COLLECTED WHILE THESE

ACTS WERE GOING ON?

IT'S NOT UNCOMMON IN THESE

TYPES OF CASES.

SO IT'S ALL ABOUT WHAT HAPPENED

.

THOSE HOUSES THAT LAW

ENFORCEMENT CONVINCED A JUDGE

THAT THERE MAY BE ELEMENTS

OF THE CRIME INSIDE THESE

HOUSES.

>> ALL RIGHT.

THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR

THAT ANALYSIS.

I ALSO HOPE WE CAN GET SOME

VIDEO UP OF THE RAID THAT'S

HAPPENING IN LOS ANGELES.

WELL, SO THAT WE CAN LEARN

A LITTLE BIT MORE.

BUT IN THE MEANTIME,

YOU'RE SEEING, AGAIN,

MORE VIDEO OF IT EITHER.

BUT AGAIN, ARE TALKING

RIGHT NOW ABOUT A SIMULTANEOUS

SEARCH OF TWO OF HIS

PROPERTIES.

ONE HAPPENING IN MIAMI,

THE OTHER ONE HAPPENING IN LOS

ANGELES.

AND WE JUST HAVE SOME

NEW REPORTING, WE'RE TOLD HERE

BY OUR ABC'S AARON KATERSKY

THAT THE WOMEN WHO HAVE MADE

PUBLIC ACCUSATIONS AGAINST IT

ARE WELCOMING MONDAY'S LAW

ENFORCEMENT ACTIVITY, WE'RE

TOLD.

IN FACT THERE IS A STATEMENT

FROM ONE OF THEIR LAWYERS WHERE

THEY'RE SAYING WE WILL ALWAYS

SUPPORT LAW ENFORCEMENT WHEN IT

SEEKS TO PROSECUTE THOSE

WHO HAVE VIOLATED THE LAW.

HOPEFULLY, THIS IS THE

BEGINNING OF A PROCESS

THAT WILL HOLD MR. COMBS

RESPONSIBLE FOR WHAT THEY CALL

HIS DEPRAVED CONDUCT.

AND SO I WANT TO BRING BACK IN

HERE BRIAN BUCKMIRE.

AND, BRIAN, IT WAS THE FIRST

THING WE TALKED ABOUT, RIGHT,

THAT THIS THIS IS NOT

THE CULMINATION OF THIS THIS

POTENTIALLY COULD BE THE VERY

BEGINNING.

SO, BRIAN, WHAT DO YOU MAKE OF,

FIRST OF ALL, THAT THE LAWYERS

ARE JUMPING RIGHT OUT, TALK

ABOUT THIS IMMEDIATELY, NOT

WASTING ANY TIME TO DRAW

ATTENTION TO IT.

>> WELL THIS IS BENEFICIAL NOT

ONLY FOR THEIR CLIENTS BUT ALSO

FOR THE CASES.

IF LOOK TO THE LAST

ALLEGED VICTIM, ROBIN JONES

JUNIOR, CAME OUT

WITH ALLEGATIONS THAT SOMETHING

VERY SIMILAR TO CASSIE AS WELL

AS THE OTHER THREE WOMEN

WHO BROUGHT CHARGES OR BROUGHT

ALLEGATIONS.

SORRY HE SAID THAT SEAN COMBS

HAS CAMERAS THROUGHOUT HIS HOME

THAT RECORDS.

A LOT OF THE EVENTS IN HIS

COMPLAINT, THAT BEING JONES

JR'S, HE HAD SNAPSHOTS OF VIDEO

THAT HE HAD TAKEN HIMSELF.

AND SO TO BRAD'S POINT, I THINK

PART OF THIS, IF THE WHY

AND THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT

IS LOOKING INTO THIS IN THE

LENS OF THESE CIVIL OCCASIONS

IS TO SEE HOW MUCH OF IT

IS TRUE.

AND IF ANY OF THIS IS TRUE,

COULD A CRIMINAL CHARGES

BE LEVIED AGAINST SEAN COMBS?

NOW SOME OF THESE SIMILAR

ALLEGATIONS CAME UP BECAUSE

OF A LOOK BACK WINDOW FOR CIVIL

ALLEGATIONS TO BE BROUGHT

THROUGH.

NEW YORK'S ADULT SURVIVOR.

BUT SOME OF THESE CHARGES, LIKE

SEX TRAFFICKING, HAVE NO

STATUTE LIMITATIONS AND THEY

HAVE SEVERE PENALTIES UNDER

LAW.

AND SO LAW ENFORCEMENT LOOKING

AT THIS AND SAYING, IF THESE

ARE TRUE AND THERE ARE VIDEOS

AND THERE ARE CAMERAS OR

THAT THESE ALLEGATIONS CAN

BE CORROBORATE TO WHAT WE FIND

IN SEAN COMBS HOME, THEN

THEY WILL MOVE TO THE NEXT

STEP, WHICH POTENTIALLY

BEING EVIDENCE COLLECTING OR

ARRESTING SOMEONE.

AND BRIAN, IF YOU CAN, JUST

QUICKLY, WHILE WE ONLY HAVE

A FEW MORE MOMENTS HERE, HELP

OUR AUDIENCE UNDERSTAND HOW FAR

BACK THEY'RE LOOKING.

I MEAN, SOME OF THESE

ALLEGATIONS STEMS FROM 30 YEARS

AGO.

RIGHT.

AND THEY IN SOME WAYS COINCIDE

WITH THE UPRISING OF HIS

CAREER.

YES.

A LOT OF THESE ALLEGATIONS JUST

FROM THE LAWSUIT, I THINK STEM

BACK FROM 93 OR 94 AND GO ALL

THE WAY UP UNTIL THE PRODUCTION

,HIS LATEST ALBUM AND 2023

AND 2024.

AND WE'RE TALKING ABOUT A LONG

SPAN OF TIME.

BUT JUST OUTSIDE OF THOSE

LAWSUITS AS WELL, THERE HAS

ALWAYS BEEN THESE KIND

OF WHISPERS OR RUMORS IN THE

BACKGROUND AS TO SEAN COMBS

INVOLVEMENT OF VARIOUS.

IF YOU'RE TALKING

ABOUT CASSIE'S ALLEGATION

OF HIM BEING PART OF A KID, CUT

HIS VEHICLE BEING EXPLODED, OR

OTHER ALLEGATIONS ASSAULT OR

SHOOTING OR SEXUAL HARASSMENT

FROM RODNEY JONES JR AND THE

OTHER FOUR ALLEGED VICTIMS.

THIS IS A LONG INVESTIGATION.

I THINK THIS IS ONLY

THE BEGINNING BECAUSE THERE'S

LOT TO TRY TO CORROBORATE FROM

THE PEOPLE WHO HAVE COME

FORWARD.

AND POTENTIAL PEOPLE WHO WE

HAVEN'T SEEN COME FORWARD

TO SEE WHAT EVIDENCE THEY AND

TO SEE WHETHER OR NOT IT'S TRUE

RUMOR OR SOMETHING IN BETWEEN.

ALL RIGHT.

BRIAN BUCKMIRE

AND BRAD GARRETT, THANK SO

MUCH, BOTH OF YOU FOR

YOUR EXPERTISE.

AND WE'LL BE CONTINUING

TO COVER THIS STO