P Diddy challenges ‘reckless’ search warrants that uncovered ‘freak-off’ party supplies

Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs was arrested in New York in September following raids on his mansions during which police seized more than 1,000 bottles of baby oil and lubricant

Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs’ legal team has filed a series of new motions challenging evidence found of his “freak-off” parties.

The 55-year-old rapper was arrested in September following raids on his mansions in Beverly Hills and Miami. Police uncovered more than 1,000 bottles of baby oil and lubricant, three AR-15 rifles and narcotics, according to the grand jury indictment documents.

However, Combs’ attorneys have now questioned the legality of the raids, arguing the government misled the court and violated his Fourth Amendment rights in new motions filed in the Southern District of New York on Sunday. The filings, which were obtained by The Mirror US, alleged federal agents made “false statements and omitted exculpatory evidence” in their application for the search warrants.

His attorneys argue the government “made false statements and omitted critical exculpatory evidence” in its warrant applications, which were” intentional, or at the very least, reckless.” They further described it as a “systematic deception” in the filings.

Combs’ legal team alleged the government hid “critical exculpatory evidence regarding credibility” of witnesses, including witnesses’ “financial incentive to fabricate and embellish.” They are now asking the court to suppress all evidence obtained through the searches or, at a minimum, grant a Franks hearing to examine the government’s conduct in obtaining the warrants.

In the new filings, Diddy’s legal team claimed the government “sought several warrants to search Mr. Combs’s residences, his electronic devices, and his person” and said it “presented a grossly distorted picture of the facts.”

They continued to claim in the court documents, “It included only inculpatory facts, and it excluded critical exculpatory evidence that was indisputably in its possession at the time… It also failed to inform the magistrate that it possessed text messages between the alleged victims and Mr. Combs.”

They also accused the warrant applications of presenting “a grossly distorted picture of reality.” Combs’ team alleged, “The government had in its possession, for example, a variety of evidence…suggesting Victim-1’s participation in the alleged “freak-offs” (FOs) was voluntary and consensual, not coerced as the government suggested in its applications.”

They accused the government of “leaking damaging information” as a result of the raids, which they described as “military-style.”