Dutch police release Nicki Minaj after drug arrest

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Rapper Nicki Minaj was arrested Saturday in Amsterdam after drugs were discovered in her luggage. She has since been released.

Minaj, 41, was streaming live on Instagram in a post that has since been deleted when a uniformed officer accused her of having drugs in her bags. In the video, she denied having any, but she wrote on X that officers found marijuana that belonged to her security detail. Another video of Minaj, whose legal name is Onika Tanya Maraj-Petty, showed her talking to another man she claimed to be the pilot in a suit explaining that all her bags were going to be searched as a result of her filming the first officer.

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