A hip hop artist and social media influencer accused of rape lured his victims to a vacant Pacific Palisades house broken in January’s fires the place he was pretending to dwell, in line with police.
Clintnlord, whose actual identify 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 stated they had been in search of extra potential victims.
The 32-year-old social media influencer and hip-hop performer with a whole lot of hundreds of followers on Instagram and TikTok crammed 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 homeowners, to satisfy ladies and get them alone to assault them. The house had been vacated as a result of smoke injury from the January firestorms and Adams broke in with out the homeowners figuring out, in line with investigators.
LAPD is in search of the general public’s assist to determine further victims, and witnesses, following the arrest of 32-year-old Clinton Adams.
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“He was transient after we arrested him,” stated LAPD Det. Brent Hopkins. “The householders didn’t give him permission to be of their house.”
Hopkins stated Adams met his victims regionally and is believed to have frequented the town’s Westside. “We imagine there could also be different victims on the market,” he stated.
The January Palisades fireplace destroyed greater than 6,800 buildings, killed 12, and left a whole lot of different houses with smoke injury. Most of the houses left structurally standing have been unoccupied. Adams knew the home was not occupied, investigators say, and exploited the state of affairs.
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 completely different ladies and invited them to a spot he portrayed as his house in Pacific Palisades, the place he sexually assaulted them. Hopkins stated each victims got here ahead to report the sexual assaults to the LAPD and recognized Adams by identify.
The primary alleged rape occured June 29 and the second incident occurred Aug. 7 and eight, in line with courtroom data.
Adams pleaded not responsible throughout a courtroom look Nov. 21 and is being held on $1.425 million bail.
Hopkins stated 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 distinguished 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 response to courtroom and jail data, Adams was detained by the California Division of Corrections on a potential parole violation in February 2024. After a listening to in Could final 12 months, he was launched and subsequently detained by Florida authorities, who later freed him.
Miami-Dade legal 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 12 months.
As well as, he has additionally been the topic of a restraining order in Florida, data present.
