Diddy Demanduit: The former Las Vegas police captain says that the financial statements show that it was not there | Courts

A former captain of the Metropolitan Police Department appointed as accused in a federal lawsuit against Sean “Diddy” combs and others said he was in Las Vegas when an alleged sexual assault in California took place in 2018, and that he has documentation to prove it.

John Pelletier, now head of the Maui Police Department in Hawaii, said in a statement sent by email by the department on Friday that “he has never visited the city of Orinda or the against Costa County, California”, where it is claimed that the first of two alleged incidents occurred. That was March 23, 2018.

“I can unequivocally explain my whereabouts on that date, with documented evidence confirming that I was in Las Vegas,” Pelletier said in the statement.

The lawsuit, presented by Ashley Parham of California and two anonymous plaintiffs, claims that Pelletier helped cover up a sexual assault of California in 2018 and kidnapped two witnesses.

Federal prosecutors have accused ComBs, the rapper and founder of Bad Boy Records who was accused in September, of physically and sexually abusing women. Last week a complaint was filed.

A Maui Police spokesman also provided personal accounts statements with the name of Pelletier who showed transactions in Las Vegas, approximately 560 miles from Orinda, on March 23, 2018. The records did not indicate the exact moment in which the transactions or which financial institution provided the account took place.

A police spokesman did not respond to a clarification request.

Another album seemed to show that Pelletier made a payment in person in a 24 -hour physical state in Las Vegas that morning.

Pelletier served in the Metropolitan Police Department for 22 years, reaching the captain’s range, before leaving and taking a job in 2021 as head of the Maui Police Department.

“Chief Pelletier has no connections with any person appointed in the lawsuit,” Maui’s police said in a statement last week. “The accusations that suggest their participation are completely unfounded.

The combs legal team said that “no sensible person” would believe the narrative of demand.

“Mr. combs was not close to Orinda, California, the day Mrs. Parham states that she was attacked there, and the Sheriff’s department against Costa has already confirmed that the claims of Mrs. Parham were unfounded after an exhaustive investigation,” said the declaration of the combs legal team.

A spokesman for the against Costa Sheriff’s office did not respond to a comment request last week.

‘Completely false’

The Maui County Mayor Richard Bissen requested that the Maui County Police Commission put Pelletier on a license, citing “concerns regarding public confidence” in a letter to the commission.

Pelletier previously described the “premature and unfair” application and described the “completely false” accusations.

“I am deeply disappointed by the rush and the calls to make me licensed within a few hours of a foundation civil accusation, one for which I have not yet served me formally,” Pelletier said in the statement sent on Friday. “This was done without allowing me to present documented evidence of my whereabouts on the dates of these alleged incidents, evidence that categorically refutes these statements.”

The man accused in the murder of the Hip-Hop icon, Tupac Shakur, said in a 2008 interview with the police that Comink was involved in the fatal shooting.

Duane “Keffe D” Davis, whom prosecutors have accused of orchestrating the murder of Shakur, alleged that combs requested it to kill Shakur and the CEO of the records of death, Marion “suge” Knight for $ 1 million and that one of the combs associates gave him the weapon used in the shooting.

The lawsuit alleges that Comps threatened Parham with a knife after she said “he believed (he) had something to do with the murder of rapper Tupac Shakur.”

Combs and other defendants violated Parham, allegedly judicial presentations.

Subsequently, the judicial documents alleged the combs offered money to Parham and told him that “to say that the violent rape was agreed and that (she) was a sex worker.” He said that if she accused him of rape, no one would believe that she and her family would be damaged, according to judicial documents.

According to the lawsuit, “the defendant Diddy then made more threats that he had gone out of bigger crimes than this and referred to Tupac again.”

Parham pastor the combs abdomen with a knife and could escape, said the suit.

Accusations against Pelletier

A neighbor called the police and Pelletier replied: “Become as a sheriff against Costa,” he claimed judicial presentations. Pelletier “was a conspirator,” said the demand.

Parham told Pelletier that he had been “violently violated by defendant Diddy and others,” according to the lawsuit. Pelletier said his police had received noise complaints and told him that he went home without offering him, alleged the demand.

Pelletier also gave the neighbor what seemed to be an envelope that could have been effective, according to the demand.

The lawsuit claimed that Pelletier’s plaintiffs were kidnapped that they witnessed Parham’s sexual assault from his home in Las Vegas while threatening to shoot them and suggesting that he extradited them by non -existent orders.

Pelletier took them to a house where they were restricted, according to the presentations, and did not let them call a lawyer. The plaintiffs were “then trafficked from Las Vegas, NV to several places in California,” the lawsuit said.

Comps has a slope demand against Ariel Mitchell, who is one of the lawyers of the plaintiffs in the lawsuit, claiming that Mitchell has manufactured “extravagant” claims about the combs.

Contact Bryan Hormwath in [email protected] or 702-383-0399. Continue @Bryanhorwath In X. Review-Journal Staff Reporter Noble Brigham contributed to this report.