Federal agents found firearms during searches of properties belonging to Sean “Diddy” Combs in both Los Angeles and Miami, three sources familiar with the matter said Tuesday.
Homeland Security Investigations executed warrants out of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York on Monday and seized the music mogul’s phones in Miami before he was scheduled to depart for a trip to the Bahamas.
Combs is a subject of a federal criminal investigation amid several lawsuits filed against him in recent months, a source familiar with the matter said.
The source said three women and a man had been interviewed by federal officials in Manhattan in relation to allegations of sex trafficking, sexual assault and the solicitation and distribution of illegal narcotics and firearms.
It was not immediately clear what kind of firearms were found or whom they belonged to.
Aaron Dyer, an attorney for Combs, described Monday’s searches as “gross overuse of military-level force.” Neither Combs nor any of his family members have been arrested, Dyer noted in his statement.
