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Speaker 1: Crime a art hourly update breaking crime news Now.

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Speaker 2: I'm Nicole Parton currently unfolding Sean Diddy. Combs has pleaded

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Speaker 2: not guilty in federal court today in response to charges

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Speaker 2: of racketeering, conspiracy, and sex trafficking in a federal indictment.

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Speaker 2: The US Attorney for the Southern District of New York

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Speaker 2: unsealed the details of the indictment.

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Speaker 3: Shawn Combs led and participated in a racketeering conspiracy that

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Speaker 3: used the business empire he controlled to carry out criminal

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Speaker 3: activity including sex trafficking, force labor, kidnapping, arson, bribery, and

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Speaker 3: the obstruction of justice. Let me say a little bit

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Speaker 3: more about the charges. The indictment allege is that Comb's

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Speaker 3: abuse and exploited women and other people for years and

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Speaker 3: in a variety of ways. As alleged, Comb's use force

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Speaker 3: threats of force encourage and to cause victims to engage

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Speaker 3: in extended sexual performances with male commercial sex workers, some

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Speaker 3: of whom he transported or caused to be transported over

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Speaker 3: state lines. Combs allegedly planned and controlled the sex performances,

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Speaker 3: which he called freakoffs, and he often electronically recorded them.

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Speaker 3: The freakofs sometimes lasted days at a time, involved multiple

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Speaker 3: commercial sex workers, and often involved a variety of narcotics

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Speaker 3: such as ketamine, ecstasy, and GHB, which Combs distributed to

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Speaker 3: the victims to keep them obedient and compliant. As alleged,

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Speaker 3: when Combs didn't get his way, he was violent and

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Speaker 3: he subjected victims of physical, emotional, and verbal abuse so

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Speaker 3: that they would participate in the freak offs, and that

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Speaker 3: Comb's hit kicked through objects at and dragged victims at

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Speaker 3: times by their hair.

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Speaker 2: Among the many items found during the raids at Diddy's mansions, guns, ammunition, drugs,

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Speaker 2: larger amounts of baby oil, and other sex items related

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Speaker 2: to these violent sex acts dubbed as freak offs. Prosecutors

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Speaker 2: are contending that the music mogul should not be granted

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Speaker 2: bail due to previous attempts to contact witnesses and victims.

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Speaker 2: The indictment alleges that Combs orchestrated a criminal enterprise within

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Speaker 2: his business empire that committed a range of crimes, including

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Speaker 2: sex trafficking, forced labor, kidnapping, arson, bribery, and obstruction of justice.

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Speaker 2: As outlined in the federal indictment, did Hey's defense team

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Speaker 2: petitioned the court to allow Sean Diddy Combs to stay

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Speaker 2: out on bond before his trial, asserting that he has

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Speaker 2: no intention of fleeing, and emphasizing that Combs has quote

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Speaker 2: earned the court's trust, saying trust is not given, it

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Speaker 2: is earned, and we have earned that. Combs had anticipated

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Speaker 2: the indictment and voluntarily turned himself in less than two

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Speaker 2: weeks ago to prevent any harm that might occur if

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Speaker 2: he was arrested at his residence. The rapper's legal team

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Speaker 2: representative emphasize that they are taking the investigation seriously. They

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Speaker 2: have surrendered Comb's and his family member's passports and reported

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Speaker 2: all domestic travels since becoming involved in the investigation. Additionally,

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Speaker 2: Combs is undergoing treatment and therapy, which his defense believes

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Speaker 2: should be taken into account for his release. The defense

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Speaker 2: team has proposed that Combs be placed under homed detention

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Speaker 2: with a fifty million dollar bond secured by his residents

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Speaker 2: in Miami. Federal prosecutors are asserting that Sean did He

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Speaker 2: Comb's should not be granted ball due to his alleged

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Speaker 2: attempts to contact witnesses and victims, with some experiencing fear

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Speaker 2: of him assist at US Attorney Emily Johnson informed the

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Speaker 2: judge that the investigation revealed evidence of Comb's reportedly assaulting

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Speaker 2: victims through choking, hitting, kicking, and dragging them, often by

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Speaker 2: their hair in this moment. Did he have been denied

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Speaker 2: bail and will remain in federal detention? A judge just ruled.

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Speaker 2: For more on the latest developments in Sean Diddy Comb's

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Speaker 2: injustice news After this, Veronica reyes Diz has a girl's

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Speaker 2: night out with her friends, returns home, picks her children

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Speaker 2: up from the sitter, and tucks them into bed. For

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Speaker 2: more on the mystery surrounding Reyes Dz Here's Nancy Grace.

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Speaker 1: Veronica res Diaz twenty three has a girl's night out

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Speaker 1: day for Florida. A friend drops her off at her home,

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Speaker 1: where her husband and little child are sleeping. Veronica gets

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Speaker 1: into her car to pick up her two older children

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Speaker 1: from her sister's. She tucks the children in. Evidence suggests

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Speaker 1: she planned to go out again. Her Chevy Yukon is

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Speaker 1: parked outside the family home, keys and wallet inside. Veronica

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Speaker 1: has not been seen since her cell phone shut down

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Speaker 1: or dies before it can be located. Veronica res Diaz

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Speaker 1: twenty three four to ten, one hundred and forty five pounds,

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Speaker 1: brown hair, brown eyes. She has a dark mole under

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Speaker 1: her left eye, now missing four years. If you have

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Speaker 1: info on Veronica res Diaz, called Hillsborough County, Florida Sheriffs

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Speaker 1: eight one, three, two four seven eighty two hundred.

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