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FBI raids California home of YouTube star Jake Paul
Internet personality Jake Paul arrives at the Teen Choice Awards in Los Angeles on August 13, 2017. (Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP)
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August 6, 2020

FBI raids California home of YouTube star Jake Paul

FBI

agents including a SWAT team served a search warrant at the home of YouTube

star Jake Paul on Wednesday.

The FBI executed the search warrant starting at 6

a.m. at the Calabasas, California, mansion in connection with an ongoing

investigation, FBI spokeswoman Laura Eimiller said in a statement.

A judge has sealed the search-warrant affidavit and

Eimiller said she could not reveal the nature of the investigation or the

person it was served on.

Paul’s attorney Richard Schonfeld confirmed the home

was his.

“We understand that a search warrant was executed at

Jake’s Calabasas home this morning while Jake was out-of-state,” Schonfeld said

in an email. “We are still gathering information and will cooperate with the

investigation.”

Video from local television news helicopters showed

agents gathering several rifles from the sprawling property with a boxing ring

and hot tub in the backyard that appears in many of Paul’s recent YouTube

videos.

A SWAT team initially entered the property, Eimiller

said. No arrests were made.

Police in Scottsdale, Arizona, on Wednesday said

they were dismissing charges of criminal trespassing and unlawful assembly

there against Paul and two others “so that a federal criminal investigation can

be completed,” but that they may be refiled later.

Paul had been charged there when he appeared on

video in June inside a Scottsdale mall that a big crowd of people had broken

into, looting stores.

Paul said in a subsequent YouTube video that he had

only been looking for people protesting the death of George Floyd, and he did

not take part in any of the destruction.

Paul, 23, has over 20 million followers on his YouTube channel, which features stunts, pranks, stories from his personal life, and more recently music videos

–AP

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