JAKE PAUL’S mum has opened up on the horror she endured when the FBI raided her son’s house.
An armed SWAT team raided the YouTuber’s plush California mansion in August 2020 as part of an investigation.
The raid came in the aftermath of Paul’s arrest at the Scottsdale Fashion Square with pal Arman Izadi, with both men being charged with trespassing and unlawful assembly after videoing a mob looting the mall.
Helicopter footage of the raid saw police remove several firearms from the mansion.
No arrests were made as Paul wasn’t home, and the charges against him and Izadi were later dropped.
The terrifying ordeal lives long in the memory of the boxer’s mum, Pam Stepnick, who opened up on the incident in her new book, ‘F**k the Pauls’.
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An excerpt of it read: “My ears rang with the news when Ted told me the FBI was raiding Jake’s home.
“I ran out of my dermatologist appointment and sank to the floor in the building’s stairwell. My heart was racing.
“After the family text bombardment during Jake’s last controversy (the Covid party), I decided to get ahead of their good intentions.
“This time, I texted them with the news about Jake, telling them not to freak out when they saw the headlines.
“FBI spokesperson Jill McCabe said the FBI was investigating allegations of criminal acts surrounding the incident at Scottsdale Fashion Square in May 2020.
“I knew my son had not done anything that merited the freaking FBI’s attention, much less the whole country’s attention.
“The story was picked up in national publications. I was unraveling.
“I had always been the rock and the glue that holds our family together, but the FBI?
“This was bigger than anything we had ever experienced up until this point in our family’s wild history.
“At the time of the raid, Jake was training for his next boxing match.
“The FBI searched Jake’s home, looking for God knows what. As I watched helicopters circle around his mansion, I thought, ‘What the hell is happening?’
“FBI agents carried guns out of the Calabasas home along with video equipment, cell phones, cameras, and laptops. In the days following the raid, my family stared into the abyss, devastated, afraid, and deeply humbled.
My ears rang with the news when Ted told me the FBI was raiding Jake’s home.”
Pam Stepnick
“When I saw video footage of the FBI confiscating Team 10 cameras (the social media label Jake had founded) and laptops on the news over and over and over again, I was disgusted. In my heart, I knew there were no bad intentions on Jake’s part.
“I watched the video while shaking my head. This investigation will go nowhere.
“There’s nothing to find. And I was right. The charges were dropped. I was frustrated. It felt like another media grab.
“At a time when all eyes were on the internet, Jake’s name meant more clicks.
“But this series of events caused Jake to take stock of his life. Finally, he had to course correct.”
Jake slammed the FBI’s decision to raid his house during a podcast in November 2024.
He said: “They wasted their own money, they wasted their own money like why would they do that?
“And then like nothing came from it, they didn’t even know what they were doing there, I still don’t even know what they were doing there.”