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Speaker 1 (00:02):
I'm a homegirl that knows a little bit about everything
and everybody.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
You don't know if you don't lie about that, right,
Lauren came in. Hey, y'all, what's up. It's Laura L.
Rosa and this is the latest with Lauren L. Rosa.
This is your.
Speaker 1 (00:19):
Daily dig on all things pop culture, entertainment, news, and
all of the conversations that shake the room.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
Baby.
Speaker 1 (00:26):
So we talked a bit about Sojia Boy and the
fact that Sojia Boy was arrested. Now, when Sojia Boy
was arrested, reports were that he was pulled over in
a car when.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
Police pulled him over.
Speaker 1 (00:37):
At the time, actually, in the reports, there was no
update on why the traffic stop actually happened.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
But I was told by a source close.
Speaker 1 (00:44):
To Sojia Boy that he'd been pulled over because the
tent on the truck that he was in was too dark.
Now this information has come out at this point because
it's days later, Sojio Boy has been released, reports are
being released. The more, like, I guess, topic of conversation
right now is the fact that the DA, the Los
Angeles District Attorney, is deciding not to move forward with
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any charges. Now, this is weird to me for several
different reasons. Because, Number one, I talked about the original
report right now. When the original report came down and
we talked about this over on the Breakfast Club, one
of the things that was said was that there was
a gun and plane site in the vehicle and that
Soldier Boy was arrested. I was told by my source
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that there were multiple people in the car. Sojia Boy
was the only person that was kept and he was
actually kept for multiple days. Now, this is kind of
crazy to me because with the DA saying, hey, we
don't have enough evidence to move forward. It's if you
find a gun in plane sight, I'm confused what evidence
you need.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
Now.
Speaker 1 (01:44):
I've reached out to the Los Angeles District Attorney's office.
I've reached out to Sojia boys attorney as well, because
I'm trying to answer the question. The two just do
not add up. It's a great thing that he was
released at Soljiaboy. You know, it's currently fighting other cases.
He didn't need this one, and that was the actual charge.
He was booked on suspicion of being a felon in
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possession of a firearm. Now, the suspicion of being a
fella on a firearm. I'm not again, I'm still trying
to figure this out. So the word suspicion, I think
is like key here, and I think that's what I'm
going to end up finding out was the determining factor. So,
so being suspected is one thing that's like alleging, right Like,
unless we're actually able to convict you of this charge,
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we have to allege or we have to say that
you are suspected. But the suspicion, that word itself means
that there is a firearm somewhere in the premises of
the felon, but you're still trying to figure out who
it belongs to in things of that nature right now.
When the arrest first happened and I saw the first report,
my first question to Sojio Boys team was, well, how
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did they know that the gun was Sojia Boys?
Speaker 2 (02:49):
Like, did he say that the gun was his? Was it?
Speaker 1 (02:52):
Because where the gun was placed at in the vehicle.
Still have not gotten answer to that. And now the
DA has come out and say, hey, there's not enough
evidence for this proceed forward. So I'm extremely confused of
what that means and how that even happened. Now, this
went down at two thirty eight and on Sunday, Soldier
Boy was released. On Tuesday, first I was contacted in.
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The initial contact I received was like, hey, we believe
Sojo Boy's gonna be able to get a bond.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
He's going in to see a judge. This was Monday.
Speaker 1 (03:22):
I was told Monday that he would go see a
judge Tuesday at eight am Tuesday of this week was
August fifth, and then they literally Tuesday, I was told
the DAS decided not to move forward with the case.
Now Complex did the story and they're a legend. Again,
I have not heard from the lada's office, but they're
allegend that they spoke to a spokesperson from the Los
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Angeles County District Attorney's office and they revealed that the
case was declined due to insufficient evidence, which we just said.
He was released the same day. So eightam, Tuesday, August fifth,
I was sold that Soljier Boy was going to be
headed into court to see a judge and that they
believed that his attorney had already had conversations which would
secure Soldier Boy a bond, meaning he would be able
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to come home and then he would have to steal,
you know, go to court, fight the case, all the things,
and then all that turned around, they decided not to
move forward, and he was actually released that same day
before two pm local time, so before two pm LA time.
Speaker 2 (04:18):
But again, the.
Speaker 1 (04:18):
Arrest happened on August third, so that's about two days
that he spent behind bars. Now, according to a charge
evaluation worksheet, the vehicle was pulled over because attended windows,
which I had let people know happened Monday on breakfast club.
Speaker 2 (04:32):
And this is where it get tricky.
Speaker 1 (04:34):
It says that the officers discovered a firearm in the
rear seat near a suspect. Both the suspect and the
driver deny owning the firearm. That's how the worksheet or
the you know kind of like the report reads from
the arrest.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
Then they go into others.
Speaker 1 (04:47):
It's so crazy how you get arrested for one thing
and then every outlet in the world starts reminding us
of everything you ever did, because they go into this
whole other case that soldier boys fighting. But from what
I'm told, it was soldier boy being driven in the
He was not the driver, and I'm assuming he was
in the rear seat. Because of the way this charge
report is set up, I can't even clarify that. And
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of course no one's answering the questions, and I don't
know if it's that they don't want to answer the
questions because if they answer to me the questions, it
links him to something that he's now unlinked from. But
it just doesn't make any sense whatsoever. Soldier Boy actually
posted first day out from being detained, and he posted
a video to a song. He was holding a Sojia
boy chain posted a video to a song. At this point,
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I think, for me, I'm just trying to figure this
out because I want to understand how the police go
from we saw a gun, we're gonna release a statement
on this, We're gonna link Soldier Boy to this, which
is not an everyday person to link to something like this,
and then all of a sudden, I'm sorry, it's going away.
Speaker 2 (05:46):
If I'm Soldier Boy, I'm pissed off about this.
Speaker 1 (05:48):
I mean, at this point though, because he has so
much other stuff going on, he's probably just happy not
to have to fight another case, deal with police on
anything else, not have to pay his attorney any more money.
But I'm just pissed off because at this point now
the headlines are here, and if you're going back and
forth to court for a whole nother case, police contact
in general is just not something that you want. I
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want to understand what my tent because if I'm driving
into suv that is normally you know, when you have
these tennant SUVs for celebrities, these SUVs should pass a
bunch of different clearance tests, right, whether it's how dark
is your tent, how many people can be in the
vehicle at one time in case you're pulled over, anything
that is a minor traffic stop that turns into so
and in the vehicle being arrested. An SUV company, a
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show for company should have already thought through including tent.
So if I'm told you, boy, I want to understand
what is the law around a tent and why was
I pulled over? I want to understand how we go
from you guys saw a gun and plane sight that
obviously you couldn't link me to because now we're not
moving forward with this case at all.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
But it was linked to me. You know, I was
detained for it for multiple days.
Speaker 1 (06:51):
I was, you know, having to prepare a team preparing an attorney,
prepared to go see a judge, all these things and
now it's.
Speaker 2 (06:56):
Just nothing again.
Speaker 1 (06:58):
I've reached out on all sides that I can nothing
back yet. But the minute I have an update for
you guys, will.
Speaker 2 (07:03):
Be right here. This is the latest with Lauren La Rosa.
So we are now.
Speaker 1 (07:13):
Fifty eight days away, fifty eight, fifty seven days away
from October third, which will be the sentencing date for
Sean Diddy Combs. This morning on The Breakfast Club, we
talked about Nicole Westmoreland, who is the lead attorney for Ditty,
in an interview that she did with a journalist over
as CNN. Now. In that interview, Nicole Westmoreland dropped a
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few updates. There's been a lot of conversation around Diddy
and the pardon by President Trump because a judge has
now for the fifth time in total since Diddy has
been in criminal conversation with the federal government out of
the South Southern District of New York, and the second
time since Ditty has been found guilty on the man
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at charges.
Speaker 2 (07:58):
You know.
Speaker 1 (07:58):
So he's been found guilty out of two charges out
of a total of five that they were trying to
convict him on has been denied bell right, So he's
been denied bill twice since.
Speaker 2 (08:10):
Being found guilty on those Man Act charges.
Speaker 1 (08:13):
So since then, there's been a lot of conversation because
it's obvious that the judge is not letting Diddy come
home any point in time prior to the sentencing.
Speaker 2 (08:24):
And I think at this point, you now, if you're.
Speaker 1 (08:27):
Diddy's defense team, you start preparing for what if you
start preparing for, Okay, we're going to go to jail
of some sorts. We're going to be behind bars at
some point if we don't walk on time served. And
a lot of people, and I want to know what
you guys think. A lot of people feel like this
is something that should just warrant time served because of
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the lesser charges that Diddy has actually been convicted of
versus the more heavier charges like the RICO and the
sex trafficking.
Speaker 2 (08:54):
Let me know what you guys think.
Speaker 1 (08:55):
I want to hear from y'all, but I want to
talk strategy a little bit because Nicole us Moreland. One
of the things that she did in the seeing an
interview after she said that it was her understanding that
weave and when she says, we she's talking about someone
in Diddy's universe. I was told that it was not
defense attorneys who have had a conversation with Trump. Was
not Ditty's official defense attorneys that have not had a
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conversation with Donald Trump, is what I was told. But
I was told that it was someone in Diddy's orbit
that has been having the conversation. I was also told,
and I mentioned this on The Breakfast Club, that there
are you know, other attorneys and people who are in
contact with the administration who've been reaching out because they
feel like, you know, that the way that this whole
Bell thing is going for Ditty is not fair. But
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Nicole west Moreland did say we reached out and had
conversations in reference to a pardon on that interview, But
she also began to talk about strategy a bit. And
I've talked about this a lot in my coverage of
the case, and in the beginning I thought that it
was a great idea that Ditty's defense team came out
from RIP and said, listen, we own it.
Speaker 2 (09:59):
We own it.
Speaker 1 (10:00):
The fact that you know, if Diddy was on trial
for assault for domestic violence, he would be guilty. He
may have been a person that was using drugs. He
may have been honestly a piece of shit, excuse my language,
but a piece of shit. He may have been a
bad boyfriend, he may have been, you know, not so
good of a boss a friend, and all these things.
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And we admit that he may have had been moody
and had a bad temper. And you know, again, if
we were here for domestic violence, he would be guilty
of that, but that is not what we're here for.
Day one of the actual trial. They came out swinging
with that woe came out swinging is probably not the
best thing to say about Diddy.
Speaker 2 (10:40):
We to talk about the things we saw, but they
admitted it right like they owned up to it.
Speaker 1 (10:45):
And at first I thought like, Okay, this is a
genius strategy, because if you admit all of your faults
up front, especially the ones that are kind of more
like narrative and image based and not like, we're not
hanging on these videos and these photos and all these
things that we're gonna see in court on day one, Right,
you think about all eight weeks of the trial. If
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you're a defense attorney, there's gonna be a lot that
they hear about our client.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
That isn't going to be so like uphealing.
Speaker 1 (11:13):
It's not gonna be the big, grand charming celebrity that
people know of him to be.
Speaker 2 (11:19):
So let's admit it. Let's admit that he understands that.
Speaker 1 (11:21):
Let's talk about the fact that he was trying to
do better, was trying to get rehab and all of
the things. I thought it was a good idea in
the beginning. I am beginning to think that that is
the worst thing that they could have done.
Speaker 2 (11:34):
And here's why.
Speaker 1 (11:36):
Number One, it's been the reason why Diddy has not
been able to get out on Bell and listen. You
didn't need Diddy's defense team to admit to any of
those things for them to not be true or be
found true or not be believed in court. We sat
through at least a week. Y'all are talking about the
c and N video. We saw the CNN video, and
not only did we see it multiple times and screen
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grabs from it, and oh my god, I could tell
you how that video went from top to bottom. I
could tell you what was in corners and crevices of
the video because we saw it so much. The prosecution
broke that video down right, but we also watched that
video with Cassie on the stand, super pregnant Cassie on
the stand.
Speaker 2 (12:18):
But we also saw.
Speaker 1 (12:19):
Photos of Cassie with you know, swollen lips, bruised faces, bruised.
Speaker 2 (12:27):
A bruised head.
Speaker 1 (12:29):
We saw images of Cassie's body scarred in various different places.
We saw emails of Cassie just sending emails saying, hey,
in case something happens to me, here's what I was
told would happen via Sean Colms. These videos would have released,
these things would happened.
Speaker 2 (12:50):
We saw so.
Speaker 1 (12:52):
Much within like just a week timeframe. You didn't need
Diddy's defensive team to admit anything to believe it. But
at the same time, I think them owning up to
it and then trying to downplay it on the back end,
because it was like.
Speaker 2 (13:08):
They owned up to it.
Speaker 1 (13:10):
They fought really, really hard, and honestly, in my opinion,
Diddy's defense team did a really good job of, you know,
being able to downplay and remove him from a lot
of other things, which is why I think a lot
of those serious charges did not stick. But the downplaying
of the violence that we saw, and you know, the
power that Diddy possessed in every single situation that we
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heard of throughout that trial. Obviously they didn't do a
good job of it, but I feel like it's coming
back to bite them in there behind, because now you're
looking at a situation where a judge can't let it
go and won't rightfully. So though right and that's the
reason why Bell has not been granted any of those times.
Speaker 2 (13:47):
And now we're getting too sentencing.
Speaker 1 (13:49):
And it's like y'all are already all over the media
talking about, well, we're trying to have a conversation about
a pardon, which doesn't look too hopeful. I think at
this point, if I'm these defense team, the best thing
you can do right now, the best thing Diddy can do.
He need to come in there so accountable and just
throwing his hit like I am sorry, I am a
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horrible person. I need to do better. I never want
to see this happen again. I have daughters. I am devastated.
I've been crying every day. I can't sleep because we
did a story about you know, him being in these
rehab facilities in a prior episode of The Latest with
Along the Roads. To make sure you guys going to
check that out but listen, I don't think that everything
that's happening right now is given accountable. Like even the
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way Diddy's team addressed the accountability that they took and
just the fact that Diddy is still locked up right now,
and the letter that they submitted to the court when
they were having a conversation about Belle, it was very
much giving. You know, these things happened, and we know.
But at the same time, y'all only could prove but
so much. He's on a trial for that stuff, and
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y'all can only prove but so much. So let him free.
I think that there is a certain and this is
going to sound very unfair because people are arguing law,
and at this point what it is is like the
defense in the prosecut it's law fighting law. They're both
providing law, they're both providing case study to prove their points.
I think a lot of this boils down to like
how sorry are you and how much do we believe you?
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And I think that Diddy's sentencing we look, I said,
we fifty eight fifty seven days away. At this point,
if I am Diddy, I'm telling my team back off.
Stop having conversations about the administration and Trump and pardons.
I don't want to talk about, you know, the horrible
jail conditions that I'm suffering, because you know there's been
reports about that, and that was in Diddy's letter to
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the court talking about why he should be leader on
Bell as well. I don't want to talk about any
of that. I want the I want the court to
feel like I'm sitting here and I'm taking my I'm
taking everything that I that that y'all think I deserve
right now. That is the least that I can do
right now, because what's going to happen is he's going
to get there in front of that judge for that sentencing,
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and if the judge does not feel like, okay, just
in this spend of time, you've learned a lesson and
you're sorry, and leniency in a sentencing, there's a lot
that goes into it, and they need to play the
part a lot better. In my opinion, I get it.
People are like, well, other people havn't this and other
people having that we hear right now we're talking about
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Sean Diddy Combs, not them other people and even the
other cases that his team continues to try and bring
into it. The prosecutors go find other cases to combat
what they're talking about. If I were him, everything would
be about listen, this will never happen again.
Speaker 2 (16:34):
You're honor.
Speaker 1 (16:35):
The sooner I can get out into the world to
show you that, the sooner, I make it my mission
to do so, because right now the way and the
energy in the and look, I know if I was Diddy, I'd.
Speaker 2 (16:48):
Be jumping for joy too. You done beat looking at
life in prison.
Speaker 1 (16:53):
But at the same time, those two men that charges
carry up to twenty years. The prosecutors feel like did
he is the worst thing on he is. He is
God's curse to being callin In my opinion, if you
look at how the prosecutors paint him, I don't personally.
Speaker 2 (17:10):
Feel like that.
Speaker 1 (17:11):
But the way that the prosecutors painted him, and the
prosecutor called me who was no longer on the case,
and I did think that that would have some sort
of like help for his side of things. But Babe
that came and went. The judge is standing on what
the judge is standing on. But the way that Komi
stood up and read Diddy for filth the day that
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he asked for that bond, to the point where his
attorney Mark Agnefilio had to say, well, that's why we're
so happy that we have twelve people juries and at
the decision of what happens to people does not rely
on the prosecutor read him down for his arrogance, for
his violence, for all of these things. And then a
judge sided with the prosecution. If I am Diddy's team,
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I am yo, I'm I'm buttoned up, your honor, Yes,
your honor, Yes, my client wants to. I think that
that should be the next and final time we hear
did he speak in court?
Speaker 2 (18:04):
If he is able to.
Speaker 1 (18:05):
He thanked the judge for doing a good job. And
then they're you know, they're on seeing in interviews and
they're having the energy as if you know, Diddy is
being railroaded and the book is being thrown out regardless
of what's happening right now, Humble thyself. That's listen, Nicole
west Moreland is talking strategy, you'll cenn I'm talking strategy
right here with the latest with Laurna Rosa. That is
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how I would approach this because at this point bell
ain't happening, buddy, and you just want to get home, Humble.
Speaker 2 (18:32):
Thyself for real, for real. Now.
Speaker 1 (18:35):
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Speaker 2 (18:56):
I appreciate you, guys. I'll see you guys in my
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