Diddy was on the middle of a gripping day in federal court docket Friday (June 13) as a Homeland Safety agent detailed the invention of lots of of bottles of lubricant, firearms and armor-piercing ammunition throughout a March 2024 raid on his Los Angeles mansion.
Particular Agent Andre LeMon, a member of the human trafficking unit at Homeland Safety Investigations in Los Angeles, testified that brokers recovered roughly 900 bottles of Astroglide and 200 bottles of child oil from Diddy’s Holmby Hills property at 200 South Mapleton Drive.
The lubricant was present in varied areas, together with a storage, rest room and inside drawers, in accordance with LeMon.
Images proven in court docket depicted cabinets stacked with bottles and packing containers labeled “Astroglide,” which LeMon confirmed had been seized from the storage. He additionally testified that lingerie was present in luggage alongside the lubricant.
Inside a closet protected, brokers positioned a passport belonging to Diddy and a plastic bag containing a substance that later examined constructive for MDMA, also referred to as ecstasy.
The testimony got here throughout day 22 of the federal racketeering and intercourse trafficking trial towards Diddy, who’s accused of working his enterprise empire as a legal enterprise that exploited girls by means of coercion and monetary manipulation.
He faces 5 federal costs, together with racketeering conspiracy and two counts of intercourse trafficking by drive, fraud or coercion.
LeMon additionally described a cache of firearms found in a room recognized because the safety workplace. Among the many weapons had been a Ruger, a Glock pistol, rifles together with a Smith & Wesson, and a Mossberg shotgun.
Three 30-round magazines had been discovered together with a 60-round drum journal loaded with 59 rounds of green-tip ammunition, designed to pierce physique armor. One of many rifles had its serial quantity eliminated, which LeMon mentioned appeared to have been sanded off utilizing equipment, not hand instruments.
Throughout cross-examination, Diddy’s lawyer, Marc Agnifilo, emphasised that each one firearms and ammunition had been recovered from the property’s safety workplace.
LeMon confirmed that not one of the weapons had been discovered within the kids’s bedrooms and acknowledged that the safety workplace door was unlocked when brokers arrived, although he couldn’t verify if it had a functioning lock.
Agnifilo additionally questioned LeMon in regards to the quantity of lubricant discovered, asking if he had ever encountered Astroglide in every other human trafficking case.
LeMon replied, “Solely on this case.”
The trial continues.
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