Nicki Minaj was evidently arrested at an airport by Amsterdam law enforcement on her arrival in the Netherlands on Saturday on suspicion of carrying prescription drugs in her luggage. The rapper filmed herself becoming questioned by police who detained her right before she could depart the airport for her show in Manchester at the Co-op Live arena for the upcoming halt on her Pink Friday 2 Tour.
In the movie, which she posted to Instagram Live, the 41-yr-old rapper whose authentic identify is Onika Tanya Maraj-Petty tells the authorities she was not carrying any prescription drugs. Inspite of her denial, she was explained to she necessary to go to the law enforcement station in video captured on her stay recording.
Minaj was “arrested … at Schiphol Airport since of possession of comfortable medicine,” a spokesperson for the law enforcement in the Netherlands informed NBC.
According to Minaj’s recording, a man in a law enforcement uniform described to her that she “would get a lawyer at the office” and they would go “as quick as achievable.” She was then told “to get into this [police] van and go into the precinct with no attorney present.”
For the duration of the verbal trade, Minaj alleged that airport security questioned that she make a “statement with no lawyer present” just after “pre-rolls” (ready-to-smoke joints filled with cannabis) had been allegedly identified in her baggage.
Right before the meant arrest, the “Anaconda” strike-maker designed a series of posts on X (formerly recognised as Twitter) about her luggage obtaining searched at the airport.
Nicki Minaj attends the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute gain gala celebrating the opening of the “Camp: Notes on Fashion” exhibition in 2019 in New York.
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“They’ve been trying everything they probably can to Check out to halt this tour,” she wrote in a person tweet. She also accused authorities of striving to “plant things” in her baggage.
Minaj also shared a recording on her Instagram of her verbal exchange with a gentleman who explained to her that police have been going to be searching her luggage.
Minaj then questioned: “But was not that what you planned on undertaking from the get-go? Why didn’t you men lookup it prior to it went on the aircraft?”
The gentleman responded: “They did just a random quick examine, but now they want to open up it” and explained Minaj deciding upon to film the authorities resulted in them wanting to lookup her luggage.
The rapper replied: “ ‘Do I have any more in those people purses’ and I said, ‘No,’ and I requested him exactly where are my baggage.” “They took my luggage and place them on the aircraft ahead of I could know what baggage are on the aircraft.”
The airline crew member only explained he was “so sorry for that.”
Minaj replied “OK, of study course,” in advance of the video ended.
Minaj also tweeted: “they reported they identified weed…they took my bags with no consent,” seemingly admitting that there was marijuana in her baggage that may have belonged to her stability employees.
In Minaj’s caption on Instagram, the rapper wrote “they took my luggage prior to I could see them” then “put it on the plane…This is what it appears like when ppl are paid out huge cash to attempt to sabotage a tour after all else unsuccessful. Everything they’ve performed is illegal.”
In her last write-up on X, Minaj tweeted that she was becoming informed she experienced to “go 5 minutes away to make a assertion about my security to the law enforcement precinct.”
