Singer Nicki Minaj is in police custody in Amsterdam after being arrested after drugs were reportedly found in her luggage just hours before she is due to perform in Manchester, according to a spokesperson for Netherlands border police. “At this moment she is in custody,” said Robert van Kapel, a spokesperson for Royal Netherlands Marechaussee, the border police in charge of Amsterdam’s Schiphol Airport, told The Independent . Although Kapel did not name Minaj, who went live on Instagram while Amsterdam police were attempting to take her into custody, he said he “can confirm we have arrested a 41 year old American because we did a check at Schiphol Airport and found soft drugs with her and it’s illegal to export soft drugs in the Netherlands.
” Minaj is 41 years old. The Netherlands classifies marijuana, which is legal in the country, as “soft drugs” and Minaj revealed in her video that her bag contained pre-rolled joints that she said belonged to someone else. “At this moment she is in interrogation and we are doing an investigation,” said Kapel.
He noted that following the police investigation, they will be in contact with public prosectuors who will then decide to press charges or not. In Minaj’s Instagram video, an official can be heard saying they wanted to arrest her for "carrying drugs," an allegation that she denied. An official tells Minaj that her bags were initially subjected to a "random quick check," but that police wanted to do a full search.
