Nicki Minaj released after arrest in the Netherlands on suspicion of exporting soft drugs

Nicki Minaj was launched from custody Saturday hours after she was arrested by police within the Netherlands on suspicion of exporting comfortable medication, authorities mentioned.

The rapper was fined and allowed to “proceed her journey,” police mentioned in a translated submit on X simply earlier than 4 p.m. ET.

Minaj, 41, was touring to Manchester, England, from Amsterdam for a live performance on her “Pink Friday 2 World Tour” when she was arrested. Minaj, whose actual identify is Onika Tanya Maraj-Petty, was scheduled to carry out on the Co-op Stay enviornment in Manchester on Saturday evening however it was postponed, Stay Nation UK mentioned in an replace.

“Regardless of Nicki’s greatest efforts to discover each attainable avenue to make tonight’s present occur, the occasions of at the moment have made it unattainable,” the corporate mentioned. “We’re deeply upset by the inconvenience this has precipitated.”

Tickets will stay legitimate for the rescheduled live performance, the corporate mentioned.

Police haven’t recognized the identify of the individual arrested, however when requested if it was Minaj, a spokesperson mentioned officers had “arrested a 41-year-old American girl at Schiphol Airport due to possession of soppy medication.”

In a social media submit early Sunday native time, Minaj mentioned she arrived at her resort in Manchester just a little greater than an hour in the past. “After sitting in a jail cell for 5-6 hours, my airplane nonetheless didn’t take off for one more 20 minutes as soon as I boarded” the 50-minute flight from Amsterdam, she wrote.

“Please please please settle for my deepest & most honest apologies,” Minaj wrote. “They certain did know precisely tips on how to harm me at the moment however this too, shall move.”

The rapper mentioned she hopes to have the ability to share the rescheduled date for Saturday’s present on Sunday, and that she and her staff are contemplating one choice in June and one other in July.

She confirmed she’d nonetheless be performing the second present in Manchester on Thursday, and that she is going to nonetheless go on in Birmingham on Sunday.

“I’ll discover a method to not solely make up the date with the efficiency however I’m going to create an added bonus for everybody that had a tkt for this present. Promise,” Minaj mentioned.

Earlier on Saturday, Minaj had shared quite a few posts on social media detailing the incident.

In a single video she shared on X, the rapper is seen being informed that her baggage must be searched.

“I’m so sorry to say that,” a person on the airport tells her.

“However isn’t that what you deliberate on doing from the get-go? Why didn’t you guys search it earlier than it went on the airplane,” she responds.

The person says they did a “random fast examine” however have to open the baggage.

In subsequent posts, Minaj mentioned she believed folks have been making an attempt to “cease this tour” and have been mendacity to her.

“They took my baggage & after I requested the place it’s they mentioned it’s on the airplane. It couldn’t have been, I simply pulled up,” she mentioned. “I by no means gave them my baggage. They’re refusing to let me see my very own baggage.”

In one other submit, she wrote: “They’re being paid massive cash to attempt to sabotage my tour b/c soooooo many ppl are mad that it’s this profitable & they’ll’t eat off me. They received caught stealing cash from my journey/jets. Obtained fired. Obtained mad. And so on.”

“That is how they plant issues in your baggage,” one other learn.

Minaj mentioned within the Sunday social media submit she has video proof of the encounter and he or she’ll “have the legal professionals & GOD take it from right here tho.”