Crime & Arrests

Diddy's ex-girlfriend Gina Huynh -- Victim No. 3 in the federal indictment who was a no-show in court after prosecutors subpoenaed her -- just went to bat for him in his bid to get out of jail pending sentencing.

In new legal docs, obtained by TMZ, Gina pens a letter to the judge in Diddy's criminal case ... supporting Diddy's motion for bail.

Gina says she's known Diddy for years and that she's mostly seen him as a father, family man and business man ... not a criminal.

Sean "Diddy" Combs is firing back at federal prosecutors who want to keep him locked up at least another two months ... he says they're hellbent on punishing him for hiring adult male prostitutes and paying them handsomely to bang his girlfriends.

In new legal docs, obtained by TMZ, Diddy's legal team rips the feds ... claiming prosecutors are unfairly targeting him as they have throughout a "misplaced investigation"

Diddy's camp comes out firing ... "Impervious to the jury’s verdict, the government proceeds as though Combs was not acquitted of sex trafficking and racketeering conspiracy, along with all the racketeering acts with which he was charged and found not guilty."

Soulja Boy was arrested after police say they found a firearm during a traffic stop … TMZ has confirmed.

Law enforcement sources tell us the rapper was a passenger in a vehicle that was pulled over around 2:30 AM Sunday in Los Angeles. During the stop, officers spotted a firearm in the car, and SB was taken into custody and booked on suspicion of being a felon in possession of a firearm.

It's currently unclear what prompted the traffic stop in the first place and details about the firearm or whether anyone else was involved remain unclear as well.

Bryan Kohberger may have used more than one weapon during the 2022 murders of four University of Idaho students, according to Latah County Prosecutor Bill Thompson.

In an interview with the Idaho Statesman, Thompson said some of Kaylee Goncalves' injuries didn't appear to be from the same knife used in the attack. "I don't think we can exclude the possibility that there was an additional weapon involved," the prosecutor said.

Court documents revealed Goncalves suffered over 20 stab wounds and blunt-force trauma. Thompson also believes Kohberger spared the surviving roommate Dylan Mortensen after panicking.

Elizabeth Holmes was spotted getting in a workout at her Texas prison ... the same one that just took in Ghislaine Maxwell.

New photos show Holmes working out in the rec yard at Federal Prison Camp Bryan on Saturday, wearing a gray t-shirt, shorts and compression gloves.

The 41-year-old is serving an 11-year sentence for defrauding investors in her failed blood-testing company. She's been locked up since May 2023.

Donald Trump is addressing whether he will pardon Diddy and, while he didn't seem very open to the idea ... he didn't completely shut the door either.

47 sat down for an interview Friday with Newsmax's Rob Finnerty on his show, "Finnerty," and when their convo turned to Diddy ... things got very interesting.

Finnerty asked Trump if he would pardon Diddy, who was recently found guilty on two counts of the Mann Act, which is transporting someone across state lines for the purpose of prostitution. At his federal trial, Diddy was acquitted of the more serious charges of racketeering and sex trafficking.

Olympic gold medalist Sha'Carri Richardson was arrested for allegedly assaulting her boyfriend, fellow athlete Christian Coleman.

The Team USA Olympic sprinter was taken into custody on Sunday at SeaTac Airport in Washington State after a TSA agent reported a woman assaulting a man while leaving the security checkpoint, an incident report obtained by TMZ says.

The reporting officer says they reviewed security footage showing a verbal altercation escalating into a physical one when Richardson shoved "Coleman hard enough that it [sent] him crashing into a nearby column."

Prosecutors in Arkansas say Andrew James McGann left a hiking trail at a state park a bloody mess after stabbing a couple to death ... and folks saw him leaving the scene with blood on his face.

In new legal docs, obtained by TMZ, prosecutors go in-depth on the brutal slayings of Clinton Brink and Cristen Brink last month at Devil's Den State Park in West Fork, Arkansas.

They say a 911 call came in July 26 reporting two dead bodies on a hiking trail with a large amount of blood ... the bodies belonged to the Brinks, who were hiking with their young daughters.

Jeffrey Epstein's one-time girlfriend and co-conspirator Ghislaine Maxwell is on the move ... because she's transferring prisons ... and her new surroundings are even nicer than the minimum security penitentiary where she was doing time.

The Bureau of Prisons tells TMZ ... Ghislaine is now being held at Federal Prison Camp Bryan in Texas.

Ghislaine had been serving her 20-year sentence at FCI Tallahassee in Florida, where we last saw her warming the track against a backdrop of barbed wire fences.

Welp, that's awkward ... the cop who arrested Diego Sanchez last month told the UFC legend he was a longtime fan of the fighter ... admitting he watched him scrap since he was "a little kid!"

TMZ Sports obtained body camera footage of the arrest ... after cops alleged the 43-year-old shot a gun out of a moving car while officers were working an incident on I-40 in Albuquerque, NM.

Cops initially spoke to the driver of the car Sanchez was in ... and after they identified him, the cop responded, "As in the Diego Sanchez?"

Bryan Kohberger’s gonna have no cellmates and no distractions ... 'cause he's just been moved to solitary confinement at Idaho’s Maximum Security Institution, TMZ has learned.

Sources tell TMZ Kohberger’s long-term restrictive housing -- J Block -- isn’t just any penitentiary unit. It holds up to 128 inmates, and includes everyone from protective custody incarcerees to long-term isolation holds ... and even death row.

It’s a grim setup -- inmates in long-term restrictive housing live alone in their cells, only allowed to exit in restraints ... they get showers every other day, and are permitted just one hour of outdoor time daily.

Jeffrey Epstein's private island looks ready to welcome visitors again -- his Caribbean paradise is being remodeled with a new high-end resort ... and it's starting to take shape.

New photos show the transformation underway on Little St. James in the U.S. Virgin Islands  ... where a 25-room hotel is being built on the infamous island.

Epstein installed two pools on the island, and one of them looks like it will be a central part of the new resort.

A Kentucky woman was arrested outside Walt Disney World after a security guard allegedly found meth in her purse -- which cops claim she told them she got from a guy at her hotel.

Brandi Asher -- a 37-year-old woman from London, KY -- was arrested back in May ... and, cops have just released the full report explaining why she was taken into custody while trying to enter Florida's House of Mouse.

According to the report, an Orange County sheriff's deputy was called by Disney security, who believed Asher was trying to bring contraband into the park.

A little girl was allegedly nearly snatched from a mall in Virginia ... and, the incident was captured on surveillance video released by authorities.

The Fairfax County Police Department shared footage from the Fair Oaks Shopping Center on July 18, which shows a man walking up to a toddler, picking her up and calmly walking away.

It happens really quickly ... and, it doesn't seem like the kid's screaming out or anything. The man walks out of frame, and the video ends.

An Arkansas man who police say murdered a husband and wife in front of their kids was arrested while getting his haircut -- and it was all caught on security cameras from a barbershop.

Video from Wednesday's bust shows Andrew James McGann, 28, driving up to the shop in Springdale, Ark., jumping out of his car and walking through the entrance. McGann then sits down in a barber chair and starts chatting with the stylist about how he wants his hair done.

The video then jumps forward to show several plainclothes officers putting McGann in cuffs while he's still wearing a salon cape. Clearly, the cops nabbed him as his thick head of hair was getting snipped.

Federal prosecutors in the Diddy case are hitting back at the music mogul -- calling BS on him downplaying his convictions for transporting male escorts across state lines, and say there's legal precedent for the judge to deny him bail.

In court docs filed Thursday -- obtained by TMZ -- prosecutors laid out their reasons for why Diddy should remain behind bars as he awaits his sentencing, following his conviction on 2 counts of violating the Mann Act. As you know, Diddy was acquitted of the more serious racketeering and sex trafficking charges.

On Wednesday, Diddy filed docs asking Judge Arun Subramanian to overturn his Mann Act conviction, arguing the crime involves the transport of people across state lines for the purposes of sex ... which Diddy denies doing.