Combs Sentenced: Prison, Drugs & RDAP Program

Rapper Combs sentenced to prison for prostitution transport. Drug use, RDAP program request, and prior overdose revealed during trial. He's in Ft Dix facility now.

Combs’ spectacular eight-week federal trial this summer finished with him acquitted of sex trafficking and racketeering fees, yet condemned on 2 counts of transport for prostitution, in violation of the Mann Act. He was sentenced on Oct. 3 to 4 years and two months behind bars, made to pay a $500,000 fine and will have 5 years probation upon his release. On Thursday, the rapper-designer whose high-flying hip-hop way of life came collapsing down 14 months back with a government raid on his homes and extremely publicized arrest, entered Ft Dix facility, where he is anticipated to remain till May 2028.

Combs’ Sentencing and Incarceration

Prior to his move, Combs was being kept in a Brooklyn federal lockup given that his September 2024 arrest, initial awaiting his trial and succeeding sentencing. His lawyers had actually requested in advance of his sentencing that he be launched on his 14 months currently served. After he was handed 50 months, his attorneys then asked Court Arun Subramanian to suggest to the Bureau of Prisons he be sent to Fort Dix’s Residential Substance abuse Program. Defense Lawyer Teny Geragos told the judge that if Combs could make use of the prison’s RDAP program, he would certainly have the ability to “address drug abuse problems” while he can also “take full advantage of family visitation and corrective efforts.”

This request was initially rejected as the government judge who looked after the trial and sentencing informed the defense group on Oct. 8 that he might not honor any type of particular demands. This seemed to rush hopes of being sent to the desired and cushier Ft. Dix facility.

RDAP Program Request Denied

Upon his arrest at the Park Hyatt hotel in Manhattan in September 2024, detectives found lube, $9,000 money, a container of clonazepam and 2 small bags with pink powder; the powder checked favorable for MDMA and ketamine, and was most likely the medicine tusi or “pink cocaine,” which normally includes these two substances and typically others including drug, methamphetamine, oxycodone, caffeine and/or cathinones.

Park Hyatt Arrest Details

The RDAP is a 9 to 12-month program that has the extremely vetted prospects housed in a different area of the prison from the basic population, as former Actual Homemakers of New Jersey star Joe Giudice, who went through the program, informed Fox lately. He stressed that the program is very demanded and remains in no other way admission provided for Combs.

Combs’ thrilling eight-week government test this summer finished with him acquitted of sex trafficking and racketeering costs, however found guilty on 2 matters of transport for hooking, in offense of the Mann Act. He was sentenced on Oct. 3 to four years and 2 months in jail, made to pay a $500,000 fine and will certainly have 5 years probation upon his release. On Thursday, the rapper-designer whose high-flying hip-hop way of living came collapsing down 14 months ago with a federal raid on his homes and highly publicized apprehension, went into Ft Dix center, where he is expected to remain until May 2028.

Combs’ Past Drug Use

Combs had actually referenced heading to rehab in the Might 2024 apology video clip that he launched to suppress the firestorm that emerged after CNN broadcast leaked video footage of his mercilessly taking a breath Ventura in the elevator vestibule in the Los Angeles InterContinental Hotel in 2016. Throughout the trial, Combs defense lawyer stated his newly found soberness while in federal custody and told the court he has actually transformed a page in his life and will continue to be off of medications moving on.

During his trial, Combs’ medication concerns were discussed numerous times from the dock. Cassie Ventura, Combs’ sweetheart for the prosecution and a years’s star witness, informed the court that in 2012, Combs overdosed on an opioid throughout a party at the Playboy Manor; Ventrura stated this happened after both had a “freak off,” the well-known, typically days-long sex and medicines marathons that he and his companion and male prostitutes would go to. Ventura preserved in her statement that at times she was made to go to these events by means of coercion and blackmail, claims Combs has refuted and was not condemned of throughout his trial.

According to the Bureau of Prisons, the RDAP is its most intensive therapy program; Cognitive behavioral therapy is utilized in a customized therapeutic community model where offenders experience living in a pro-social neighborhood, according to details on the BOP web site. While going through the months-long program, transgressors participate in half-day programs and half-day work, institution, or vocational activities.