FBI agents raided Jake Paul's home looking for Arizona mall looting

FBI agents who raided YouTube star Jake Paul's mansion were looking for video evidence of the Arizona mall looting he is linked to, a source close to the influencer told DailyMail.com.

SWAT teams descended on Paul's $6.9 million Calabasas home and the Las Vegas mansion of his graffiti artist co-star Arman Izadi in a dramatic Wednesday dawn raid.

A source close to Izadi told DailyMail.com federal agents took computers and hard drives from the Vegas home and were looking for unreleased footage of Paul and Izadi at a mall looting in Scottsdale, Arizona in May.

The source also revealed that police searched other properties beyond the two mansions in the coordinated raid – though the FBI remained tight-lipped saying the case had been sealed.

Paul, 23, Izadi, 35, and a third YouTuber filmed themselves at a Scottsdale protest over the killing of George Floyd but were arrested and charged with trespassing and unlawful assembly after looters ransacked and vandalized the Scottsdale Fashion Square mall.

As dozens of SWAT officers in armored vehicles hit the influencers' mansions around 6am Wednesday, Scottsdale Police Department announced the Arizona state charges against the three men had been temporarily dismissed while the case was handed over to federal investigators.

'It seems they wanted to get their hands on technology to review any footage that may not have been released,' the source told DailyMail.com. 'That is what seems to be out of control. Why is it so aggressive for just that?

'It was a shock to everyone... You just don't see that every day, these huge SWAT teams.

'Everybody there was detained while they secured the property.... (Read more)

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