A hip hop artist and social media influencer accused of rape lured his victims to a vacant Pacific Palisades residence broken in January’s fires the place he was pretending to dwell, in keeping with police.
Clintnlord, whose actual title is Clinton Adams, is charged with three counts of rape and has been in custody since he was arrested Nov. 19. On Wednesday, police launched his {photograph} and mentioned they had been searching for extra doable victims.
The 32-year-old social media influencer and hip-hop performer with a whole lot of hundreds of followers on Instagram and TikTok stuffed his feeds with photos of himself at occasions just like the BET Awards and on runway catwalks across the globe whereas working with designer manufacturers.
However behind the scenes, Los Angeles police investigators say Adams had been utilizing a house within the Pacific Palisades, unbeknownst to its house owners, to satisfy girls and get them alone to assault them. The house had been vacated attributable to smoke harm from the January firestorms and Adams broke in with out the house owners figuring out, in keeping with investigators.
LAPD is searching for the general public’s assist to establish further victims, and witnesses, following the arrest of 32-year-old Clinton Adams.
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“He was transient once we arrested him,” mentioned LAPD Det. Brent Hopkins. “The owners didn’t give him permission to be of their residence.”
Hopkins mentioned Adams met his victims domestically and is believed to have frequented the town’s Westside. “We imagine there could also be different victims on the market,” he mentioned.
The January Palisades fireplace destroyed greater than 6,800 buildings, killed 12, and left a whole lot of different properties with smoke harm. Most of the properties left structurally standing have been unoccupied. Adams knew the home was not occupied, investigators say, and exploited the scenario.
Detectives arrested Adams final month on suspicion of rape. Two days later, the Los Angeles district lawyer’s workplace charged Adams with three counts of rape and one rely of assault with intent to commit a felony.
Authorities allege that Adams, in separate incidents, met two totally different girls and invited them to a spot he portrayed as his residence in Pacific Palisades, the place he sexually assaulted them. Hopkins mentioned each victims got here ahead to report the sexual assaults to the LAPD and recognized Adams by title.
The primary alleged rape occured June 29 and the second incident occurred Aug. 7 and eight, in keeping with court docket data.
Adams pleaded not responsible throughout a court docket look Nov. 21 and is being held on $1.425 million bail.
Hopkins mentioned investigators are conscious that the social media influencer and hip-hop artist has roots on the East Coast, together with New York.
He has labored with different extra outstanding artists and appeared on a monitor, “Ay Caramba.”
Adams was beforehand arrested in December 2023 by the LAPD’s Van Nuys Division for a misdemeanor, jail reserving data present.
In line with court docket and jail data, Adams was detained by the California Division of Corrections on a doable parole violation in February 2024. After a listening to in Might final yr, he was launched and subsequently detained by Florida authorities, who later freed him.
Miami-Dade felony data present that in 2021, he was arrested and charged with discharging a weapon and felony throwing a “missile,” and subsequently pleaded the case out for a probation time period in 2023. That probation was violated in 2024 however finally resulted in July of that yr.
As well as, he has additionally been the topic of a restraining order in Florida, data present.
