The rapper and pop star was travelling to England for the next stop of her world tour when police reportedly said they found drugs in her luggage.
Rapper and pop star Nicki Minaj was reportedly arrested in the Netherlands on Saturday after police said they found drugs in her luggage when she tried to board a plane for a concert in England.
Minaj documented the incident on social media, including in footage she appears to have shot at an airport near Amsterdam. In one video, a man in a grey suit, who Minaj later identified as her pilot, apologetically informed her that police needed to search all her luggage.“He asked me if I had any more in my purses and I said no,” Minaj replies.
In another video, an officer tells Minaj to go to a police station. The footage shows Minaj refusing to do so and demanding a lawyer. She wrote on the social media platform X that authorities had found “weed” – slang for marijuana – in her baggage, which she said belonged to one of her security guards.
Robert Van Kapel, a spokesperson for the Netherlands military police, told the Associated Press that the agency had arrested a 41-year-old American woman on suspicion of “exporting soft drugs”. Police later said the woman arrested at Schiphol Airport had been fined and allowed to continue her journey.Dutch authorities did not immediately respond to questions fromPink Friday 2
. She was due to perform Saturday evening at a Manchester concert hall, which delayed its opening by half an hour after reports of the arrest.Minaj went dark on social media shortly after reporting that she had been asked to go to the police station, and it was unclear whether she would make the concert.
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