A major operation involving multiple federal agencies is underway at the prison housing Sean ‘Diddy‘ Combs, it’s been revealed.
The US Department of Justice Office of the Inspector General and the Federal Bureau of Prisons are among the agencies involved in the ‘interagency operation’ taking place at the Metropolitan Detention Center in New York City.
Investigators from both groups – along with several other law enforcement agencies – were seen descending on the Brooklyn prison Monday morning, as it has faced scrutiny as of late over a rash of violent incidents.
A subsequent Bureau of Prisons statement sought to explain the operation, saying it is ‘designed to achieve our shared goal of maintaining a safe environment for both our employees and the incarcerated individuals housed at [the facility].’
The bureau added there is no active threat, following incidents of violence and death. In addition to Diddy, the jail houses R. Kelly and Sam Bankman-Fried, and previous tenants have included Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell.
Other agencies involved included The US Department of Justice, the US Attorney’s Office for the Eastern and Southern districts of New York, the DEA, the FBI, NYPD, and US Border Patrol, the statement revealed.
‘The US Department of Justice Office of the Inspector General and the Federal Bureau of Prisons and other… agencies are conducting a preplanned joint operation to enhance the safe environment for employees and incarcerated individuals,’ it read.
Issued just before 9am, observers went on to witness agents descending on the facility, which has about 1,200 detainees.
For the most part, it’s used as a post-arrest detention site for those awaiting trial in the city’s federal courts, as is the case with rapper Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs.
His criminal trial is set of May, where he will face allegations that he abused, threatened, and coerced women and several others, as part of an intricate racketeering conspiracy.
Other allegations leveled at the rapper – whose real name is Sean Combs – include sex trafficking, forced labor, kidnapping, arson, bribery, and obstruction of justice, all launched following a lengthy investigation.
He’s been there for barely a month, around the time feds charged nine other inmates in connection with a spate of attacks that had plagued the jail from April until August.
News of the allegations brought conditions at the jail into the limelight, as it remains the only federal prison in the five boroughs.
Reports of horrific conditions, rampant violence, and several deaths have since made themselves known, including those surrounding two inmates stabbed to death and another speared in the spine with a makeshift icepick.
As such incidents occur, prison expert Larry Levine last week told DailyMail.com Diddy is getting daily visits from a psych team for his mental health, as he is stuck there for at least another seven months – mostly in solitude.
‘He’s not really on suicide watch but my inside source there tells me that there is someone coming by to visit with him several times a day, you know, to make sure that he’s okay,’ Levine said Friday’s episode of The Trial of Diddy.
He added: ‘He’s got somebody from the psychology department coming out to visit with him so it’s like a game that they play with the inmates. Remember, he’s not playing chess. He’s in a cell by himself.’
Such is the case with FTX founder Bankman-Fried and fellow rapper Kelly, both of whom are in the midst of sentences lasting more than 20 years.
Diddy could face an even worse fate come next spring, as the racketeering charge against him carries a maximum sentence of life in prison.
The count of sex trafficking by force, fraud, or coercion also carries a life sentence, while a count of transportation for purposes of prostitution carries a max of 10 years.
The case is being handled by the US Attorney Office’s Civil Rights Unit, along with US Attorneys Meredith Foster, Emily A. Johnson, Christy Slavik, Madison Reddick Smyser and Mitzi Steiner.
Meanwhile, Combs’ lawyers are still trying to get him out of jail and filed an appeal to the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court after two judges rejected his release on bail. The matter will be discussed at a hearing on November 4.
‘He’s got a lonely existence,’ Levine said of Combs. ‘He’s got a target on his back and you know … it’s fact he’s got too much on too many people.
‘Someone’s going to have to take him out and it’s not going to be the inmates there because they can’t get to him.’
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