1 00:00:00,440 --> 00:00:04,320 Speaker 1: Crime, alert, imancy, grace breaking, crime us now ex girlfriends, 2 00:00:04,360 --> 00:00:09,160 Speaker 1: former employees, mail sex workers, and hotel managers are among 3 00:00:09,360 --> 00:00:15,000 Speaker 1: the multitude prosecutional witnesses against Shawn Comb's aka Ditty, each 4 00:00:15,200 --> 00:00:20,919 Speaker 1: one recounting their recollections of interactions with Combs, detailing alleged violence, 5 00:00:21,079 --> 00:00:27,080 Speaker 1: sex abuse, drug distribution, car bombs, and blackmail threats. How 6 00:00:27,120 --> 00:00:31,960 Speaker 1: will the defense battle the damning testimony? Our Drew Nelson 7 00:00:32,080 --> 00:00:35,120 Speaker 1: joins US with the latest from the Shawn Combs court room. 8 00:00:35,440 --> 00:00:38,760 Speaker 2: Nancy, a former aid Deshaun Combs, is preparing to testify 9 00:00:38,840 --> 00:00:41,320 Speaker 2: today as we enter the final stretch of the federal 10 00:00:41,360 --> 00:00:45,000 Speaker 2: sex trafficking trial. An online article caught the judge's interest. 11 00:00:45,120 --> 00:00:49,200 Speaker 2: Tuesday morning, Judge Arun Subramanian scolded both legal teams over 12 00:00:49,200 --> 00:00:52,000 Speaker 2: the leaked news report that contained details from a sealed 13 00:00:52,040 --> 00:00:54,880 Speaker 2: court hearing. The judge said, from the bench quote, someone 14 00:00:54,960 --> 00:00:58,640 Speaker 2: is lying. The transcript was sealed, warning that continued leaks 15 00:00:58,640 --> 00:01:02,240 Speaker 2: could lead to contempt charge. He didn't specify the content 16 00:01:02,320 --> 00:01:05,200 Speaker 2: of the league, but it appeared to involve private discussions 17 00:01:05,240 --> 00:01:08,480 Speaker 2: about the juror who was dismissed Monday for giving inconsistent 18 00:01:08,520 --> 00:01:11,440 Speaker 2: information about where he lived. The judge said, quote one 19 00:01:11,520 --> 00:01:13,640 Speaker 2: or more people who were here Friday in this court 20 00:01:13,720 --> 00:01:17,039 Speaker 2: room flagrantly violated this Court's orders, a violation of the 21 00:01:17,080 --> 00:01:20,840 Speaker 2: court's sealing order. Back on the stand, US attorney Special 22 00:01:20,880 --> 00:01:24,640 Speaker 2: Agent Delesa Penlan, presenting evidence of so called free coughs, 23 00:01:24,920 --> 00:01:28,039 Speaker 2: jurors watched more than fifteen minutes of explicit video clips 24 00:01:28,040 --> 00:01:31,000 Speaker 2: from twenty twelve and twenty fourteen, which were sealed from 25 00:01:31,040 --> 00:01:35,360 Speaker 2: public view. Some jurors appeared visibly tense. Penland also reviewed 26 00:01:35,400 --> 00:01:38,679 Speaker 2: hotel and travel records showing large sums charged to Comb's 27 00:01:38,720 --> 00:01:41,920 Speaker 2: American Express cards. In one case, he was billed forty six, 28 00:01:42,319 --> 00:01:44,480 Speaker 2: seven hundred and eighty six dollars for damage to a 29 00:01:44,520 --> 00:01:48,120 Speaker 2: penthouse at the Intercontinental New York. Another document showed a 30 00:01:48,120 --> 00:01:51,760 Speaker 2: four thousand dollars per night suite and travel expense for escorts. 31 00:01:52,160 --> 00:01:57,280 Speaker 2: Cross examination focused on Cassie Ventura's text. Comb's lawyer, Tenny Garrigos, 32 00:01:57,320 --> 00:02:00,520 Speaker 2: read messages in which Ventura described what she called sexy 33 00:02:00,520 --> 00:02:04,240 Speaker 2: flashbacks in many ways, expressing her affection and even thanking 34 00:02:04,280 --> 00:02:06,960 Speaker 2: Comb's for quote, showing me love and happiness the way 35 00:02:07,000 --> 00:02:10,160 Speaker 2: It's supposed to be. Gary Goes argued these texts showed 36 00:02:10,240 --> 00:02:14,200 Speaker 2: Ventura was a willing partner. In one message, Ventura wrote, quote, baby, 37 00:02:14,280 --> 00:02:17,600 Speaker 2: I want to fo so bad freak ofugh. On Father's 38 00:02:17,639 --> 00:02:20,519 Speaker 2: Day twenty twenty three, Ventura texted she could not wait 39 00:02:20,600 --> 00:02:23,320 Speaker 2: until quote we have a baby of our own. Another 40 00:02:23,440 --> 00:02:26,079 Speaker 2: she proposed a role play quote I am not Cassie 41 00:02:26,160 --> 00:02:29,240 Speaker 2: and quote you're not Sean. She added if they needed 42 00:02:29,240 --> 00:02:32,320 Speaker 2: to break character, the safe word was pineapple. But then 43 00:02:32,360 --> 00:02:35,640 Speaker 2: there's this. She described bruises after the twenty sixteen assault 44 00:02:35,720 --> 00:02:38,040 Speaker 2: and told Combs, quote, when you get phipped up the 45 00:02:38,080 --> 00:02:40,240 Speaker 2: wrong way, you always want me to show that you 46 00:02:40,320 --> 00:02:42,640 Speaker 2: have the power, and you knock me around. I'm not 47 00:02:42,680 --> 00:02:46,120 Speaker 2: a rag doll. I'm someone's child. After that attack, Combs 48 00:02:46,160 --> 00:02:49,160 Speaker 2: sent repeated texts quote I'm about to be arrested and 49 00:02:49,360 --> 00:02:51,600 Speaker 2: quote if you don't pick up, you'll never hear my 50 00:02:51,680 --> 00:02:53,960 Speaker 2: voice again, calling her five times in the course of 51 00:02:54,000 --> 00:02:57,320 Speaker 2: twenty two minutes. The jury was dismissed Tuesday afternoon as 52 00:02:57,400 --> 00:03:00,240 Speaker 2: lawyers stayed behind to discuss a possible issue with another 53 00:03:00,320 --> 00:03:03,959 Speaker 2: juror Number seven. Number six has already been excused. Brend 54 00:03:03,960 --> 00:03:06,640 Speaker 2: And Paul, a former assistant to Combs, is expected to 55 00:03:06,639 --> 00:03:09,800 Speaker 2: take the stand today. Paul was previously arrested on drug 56 00:03:09,880 --> 00:03:12,960 Speaker 2: charges and is named in multiple lawsuits connected to Combs. 57 00:03:13,040 --> 00:03:16,320 Speaker 2: He was granted immunity Tuesday and ordered to testify truthfully. 58 00:03:16,520 --> 00:03:19,360 Speaker 2: Prosecutors said they might rest their case Friday, a delay 59 00:03:19,400 --> 00:03:23,040 Speaker 2: from their previously announced plan to rest today. No proceedings 60 00:03:23,120 --> 00:03:26,320 Speaker 2: on Thursday, as they observed the June teenth federal holiday. 61 00:03:26,760 --> 00:03:29,120 Speaker 1: Thanks Drew more crime and justice news after this. 62 00:03:34,639 --> 00:03:38,680 Speaker 2: Doctor Salvador Placentia pleads guilty to supplying ketymine to Matthew 63 00:03:38,680 --> 00:03:41,560 Speaker 2: Perry before the Friends actors fatal overdose in October of 64 00:03:41,560 --> 00:03:44,880 Speaker 2: twenty twenty three four counts of distributing ketymine. He faces 65 00:03:44,960 --> 00:03:46,840 Speaker 2: up to forty years in prison and a two million 66 00:03:46,880 --> 00:03:51,080 Speaker 2: dollar fine. Authority said Placentia left doses with Perry's assistant, 67 00:03:51,080 --> 00:03:54,880 Speaker 2: who had no medical training. Prosecutors said Placentia injected Perry 68 00:03:54,920 --> 00:03:57,119 Speaker 2: in his home and once in a parking lot while 69 00:03:57,120 --> 00:03:59,560 Speaker 2: the actor sat in the backseat of a car. Placentia 70 00:03:59,560 --> 00:04:01,880 Speaker 2: sold the rug to Perry for thousands of dollars at 71 00:04:01,880 --> 00:04:05,440 Speaker 2: a time. According to court records, Placentia enlisted another doctor, 72 00:04:05,520 --> 00:04:09,360 Speaker 2: Mark Chavez, to help fill Perry's requests. Chavez had experience 73 00:04:09,440 --> 00:04:13,680 Speaker 2: operating a ketamine clinic. In a text message, Placentia asked Chavez, quote, 74 00:04:13,760 --> 00:04:16,160 Speaker 2: I wonder how much this moron will pay. The two 75 00:04:16,200 --> 00:04:19,240 Speaker 2: doctors then met and exchanged several vials of the drug. 76 00:04:19,480 --> 00:04:22,080 Speaker 2: In the weeks before his death, Perry was receiving multiple 77 00:04:22,080 --> 00:04:25,560 Speaker 2: doses each day from different suppliers. The investigation has led 78 00:04:25,560 --> 00:04:28,480 Speaker 2: to federal charges against five people. Two others have already 79 00:04:28,520 --> 00:04:32,400 Speaker 2: pleaded guilty. Perry's live in assistant, Kenneth Ewamasa, and an 80 00:04:32,400 --> 00:04:35,400 Speaker 2: acquaintance by the name of Eric Fleming. Fleming admitted to 81 00:04:35,440 --> 00:04:38,960 Speaker 2: delivering fifty vials of ketamine, including the dose that killed Perry. 82 00:04:39,120 --> 00:04:42,920 Speaker 2: Iwamasa admitted to injecting Perry multiple times and said Perry 83 00:04:42,960 --> 00:04:44,960 Speaker 2: asked him to quote, shoot me up with a big 84 00:04:45,000 --> 00:04:47,479 Speaker 2: one before getting in the hot tub. Today he died. 85 00:04:47,720 --> 00:04:52,080 Speaker 2: The fifth defendant, the notorious ketamine queen Jasvine Sangha, is 86 00:04:52,120 --> 00:04:54,680 Speaker 2: accused of selling the ketamine that caused the overdose. She 87 00:04:54,839 --> 00:04:58,479 Speaker 2: is awaiting trial. The manhunt continues in Washington State for 88 00:04:58,520 --> 00:05:01,040 Speaker 2: a father accused of killing his three during a court 89 00:05:01,120 --> 00:05:04,520 Speaker 2: ordered visitation. Court record show Travis Decker had lost overnight 90 00:05:04,560 --> 00:05:06,840 Speaker 2: custody of his girls in twenty twenty four, due to 91 00:05:06,960 --> 00:05:10,360 Speaker 2: unpaid support and mental health concerns, A judge had limited 92 00:05:10,440 --> 00:05:13,880 Speaker 2: him to short daytime visits. In court audio released this week, 93 00:05:14,000 --> 00:05:16,880 Speaker 2: Decker had insisted quote, We've never done anything that was 94 00:05:16,960 --> 00:05:19,760 Speaker 2: unsafe or anything that I wouldn't want to put myself in. 95 00:05:20,040 --> 00:05:22,719 Speaker 2: He also said quote, I understand that my current position 96 00:05:22,800 --> 00:05:25,840 Speaker 2: when I'm by myself isn't ideal, but my daughters aren't 97 00:05:25,839 --> 00:05:27,880 Speaker 2: a part of that. He'd been living in his truck 98 00:05:27,880 --> 00:05:32,279 Speaker 2: and occasionally staying in motels. Official sate Decker has survivalist training. 99 00:05:32,279 --> 00:05:35,400 Speaker 2: He is a former Army ranger. A federal affidavit says 100 00:05:35,400 --> 00:05:37,640 Speaker 2: Decker may have been planning to flee the country. He 101 00:05:37,720 --> 00:05:40,479 Speaker 2: reportedly searched online for ways to move to Canada just 102 00:05:40,560 --> 00:05:44,039 Speaker 2: days before taking the girls chilling. New details are emerging 103 00:05:44,040 --> 00:05:47,479 Speaker 2: in the Minnesota lawmakers shooting spree as federal charges are filed. 104 00:05:47,760 --> 00:05:50,520 Speaker 2: Vance Bolter, aged fifty seven, is charged with murdering state 105 00:05:50,560 --> 00:05:54,120 Speaker 2: Representative Melissa Hortman and her husband and shooting Senator John 106 00:05:54,120 --> 00:05:56,640 Speaker 2: Hoffman and his wife Yvette. He allegedly posed as a 107 00:05:56,680 --> 00:05:59,880 Speaker 2: police officer wearing a silicone mask, shouting quote, this is 108 00:06:00,080 --> 00:06:02,960 Speaker 2: the police, before forcing his way into the homes. Two 109 00:06:03,000 --> 00:06:06,400 Speaker 2: other lawmakers were spared, including Senator and rest Police say 110 00:06:06,440 --> 00:06:09,320 Speaker 2: they reached her home just in time. After the shootings, 111 00:06:09,320 --> 00:06:12,640 Speaker 2: Bolter allegedly texted his family quote dad went to war 112 00:06:12,760 --> 00:06:15,120 Speaker 2: last night and warned his wife to leave before quote 113 00:06:15,240 --> 00:06:18,800 Speaker 2: armed and trigger happy people arrived. Federal officials say the 114 00:06:18,839 --> 00:06:20,800 Speaker 2: killings were part of a larger planned attack. 115 00:06:21,200 --> 00:06:23,640 Speaker 1: Thanks Drew for the latest crime in Justice. 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