Drugs and weapons present in raid on Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs’s Miami house, court docket informed

The federal trial of Sean “Diddy” Combs entered its 8th day of testimony in New York on Wednesday, with a place of origin safety agent resuming testimony in regards to the federal raid of Combs’s Miami assets final yr.

Combs, 55, is dealing with fees of intercourse trafficking, racketeering conspiracy and transportation to interact in prostitution. He was once arrested in September and has pleaded no longer accountable.

On Wednesday morning, Gerard Gannon, an agent with Homeland Security Investigations who oversaw the March 2024 seek of Combs’s Miami Beach house, took the stand for the second one time this week.

Gannon informed the court docket on Tuesday that brokers came upon AR-15 rifle portions, in addition to top heels, intercourse toys, lubricants, child oil and underwear within the closet of the master suite of Combs’s Miami house.

On Wednesday, Gannon recalled that brokers discovered a Gucci bag containing an collection of capsules together with MDMA drugs, in addition to white residue that examined sure for cocaine and ketamine, and different pieces in several closet in Combs’s house.

Photos proven in court docket have been of things that brokers stated have been present in a hallway closet, together with greater than 20 bottles of child oil and lubricant.

Gannon testified that brokers discovered a loaded .45 caliber handgun in a suitcase within the guesthouse at the assets.

Under cross-examination, Gannon stated the AR-15-style weapons present in Combs’s house have been disassembled and thus inoperable.

The prosecution then known as Dr Dawn Hughes, a forensic and scientific psychologist who makes a speciality of trauma. Hughes in the past testified throughout the 2022 defamation case of actors Amber Heard and Johnny Depp.

Hughes testified that it was once not unusual for sufferers to stay in abusive relationships as a result of they regularly really feel trapped and that it might take months, and even years, prior to a sufferer is in a position to reveal the abuse to any one. Trauma sufferers, she stated, usually revel in deep emotions of disgrace, humiliation and degradation.

“They don’t want to talk about it,” Hughes stated. “They don’t even want to think about it in their own brain.”

In abusive relationships, Hughes stated there may be “almost always love” which creates “an intense psychological bond that creates an attachment with their abuser”.

It regularly takes a couple of makes an attempt for sufferers to depart abusive relationships, Hughes stated, prior to describing a cycle of “returning, and reconciliation, and then returning again” as a not unusual development in abusive relationships.

In tandem with bodily violence, Hughes stated abusers often use monetary regulate to care for energy and make sufferers really feel trapped. Victims regularly use medicine and repress recollections, she stated.

Hughes informed the court docket that she was once being paid $600 an hour for her paintings as a professional witness and $6,000 for an afternoon of testimony in court docket.

On Tuesday, the jury heard from a former assistant to Combs, a male escort and Cassie Ventura’s mom, Regina Ventura, who accused him of blackmail and of assaulting her daughter.

On Monday, the jury heard from singer Dawn Richard and Kerry Morgan, a former shut good friend of Ventura’s throughout her courting with Combs. Both ladies testified that that they had witnessed Combs assaulting Ventura.

Cassie Ventura spent 4 days at the stand final week, and testified about years of bodily and emotional abuse she persisted from Combs throughout their 11-year, on-and-off once more courting.

Ventura stated Combs orchestrated drug-fueled intercourse performances with male intercourse employees that he known as “freak offs”, and that he coerced and blackmailed her into collaborating.

She additionally alleged that Combs raped her in 2018 after their breakup.

Prosecutors have sought to painting Combs as controlling and abusive, and as somebody who exerted energy over just about each facet of Ventura’s existence and selections.

Attorneys for Combs have attempted to undermine Ventura’s credibility and sought to depict her as a prepared and consenting player within the so-called “freak-offs”.

The trial is anticipated to final seven extra weeks. If convicted, Combs may spend the remainder of his existence in jail.