NEW YORK — An interagency operation is underway at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn, federal prison officials say.
The New York City jail is currently housing Sean “Diddy” Combs on sex trafficking and racketeering charges. Other high-profile inmates, from R. Kelly to Sam Bankman-Fried, have been held there over the years.
The Federal Bureau of Prisons told CBS News in a statement the operation was “designed to achieve our shared goal of maintaining a safe environment for both our employees and the incarcerated individuals housed at MDC Brooklyn.”
The bureau added there is no active threat at the facility.
The agency partnered with the U.S. Department of Justice Office of the Inspector General and other law enforcement agencies for the operation.
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