This is continuing coverage of United States versus Sean Diddy Cones from the Hidden Killers podcast and True Crime Today.

It's not every day you see federal agents roll up to a celebrity mansion like they're reenacting a scene from a Michael Mann film.

Armored vehicles, agents in tactical gear, and the kind of perimeter lockdown,

usually reserved for drug cartels or terror threats, but that's exactly what went down on March

25, 2004, when the homes of Sean Diddy Combs were hit with simultaneous FBI raids

in Los Angeles and Miami. And this wasn't some knock and talk.

This was a full-scale coordinated operation, the kind that only happens when the government

already thinks they know what they're going to find. In Los Angeles, agents descended on his

sprawling Holmbie Hills estate. In Miami, they rolled up on his Star Island mansion.

These aren't exactly modest crash pads. They're multi-million dollar compounds equipped with security

systems, private staff, and more cameras than a Vegas casino. But that didn't slow the agents down. They secured both

sites at the same time, blocked off surrounding roads, and began what turned into a forensic

sweep of nearly everything with a plug or a password. And it didn't stop at the properties

that same morning. Federal agents intercepted one of Combs' private jets at a Miami executive

airport. He was reportedly preparing to fly out to the Bahamas, which, let's be honest, is just the

kind of timing that raises every possible red flag. On board or nearby was Brendan Paul, a longtime

associate, who was allegedly carrying both cocaine and

THC edibles. He was arrested on the spot. The messaging from Homeland Security was loud and clear,

this was a dragnet. No one was slipping out the back door. But the real story isn't just the

drama of the takedown. It's what they found once they got inside.

According to federal prosecutors, what was seized from Combs' homes and devices could fill a small

data center. Over 100 electronic devices, everything from smartphones and laptops to external

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