Tupac murder suspect Duane 'Keefe D' Davis 'could've spilled his guts' about ... trends now
Federal raids on Sean 'Diddy' Combs's mansions could be linked to the recent arrest of a gangster over rapper Tupac Shakur's 1996 murder, a former FBI agent who investigated the killing has told DailyMail.com.
Phil Carson, a retired head of the Los Angeles FBI office, said that information backing search warrants for Combs's LA and Florida properties may have come from the alleged murder accomplice, Duane 'Keefe D' Davis, who was charged last year.
Carson is an expert on hip-hop criminals and kingmakers of the 1990s, after spending years probing police corruption around the shootings of Shakur and his East Coast rap rival Biggie Smalls, aka, Christopher Wallace.
In an exclusive interview with DailyMail.com, he pointed to Davis's arrest on September 29 last year over his admitted involvement in Shakur's murder – which he claimed was a $1million hit ordered by Combs, though the music producer denies it.
FBI agents raided Sean 'Diddy' Combs's properties in Los Angeles and Miami this week as part of a sex trafficking investigation involving the music mogul
The dramatic raid has sparked theories that law enforcement may have obtained information from Duane 'Keefe D' Davis (left), the former gangster charged in rapper Tupac Shakur's murder – which he claims was a $1million hit ordered by Combs
Tupac was infamously gunned down at the height of the East Coast-West Coast rap rivalry in the 1990s. He is pictured with Diddy and his rap rival Biggie Smalls, aka, Christopher Wallace
Carson described how a looming life sentence could now be forcing former gangster Davis, 60, to spill new secrets about Combs, 54, to investigators.
'It's not like the olden days of the Italian mafia where everybody kept their mouth shut,' the ex-Bureau agent said.
'As soon as somebody has handcuffs on them, they'll sell out their own mom now.
'Keefe's arrested, and that's a game-changer, because they have something over him. And that's when he may start spilling his guts.
'He's an OG from out here,' added Carson, referring to the shorthand term for 'original gangster'.
'He's rubbed shoulders with a lot of the big shots. Every one of those guys has a story to tell about how the streets were run back then.
'So who's to say Keefe didn't start throwing stuff out there that he hasn't talked about before, to potentially save his a**?
'That's not to say it's the reason federal law enforcement executed these warrants on Diddy's house,' he cautioned.
'But it would be interesting to know what the evidence is, and where that evidence came from, that they put in these affidavits to get both these search warrants. It's got to be something of substance.'
As part of a 2008 temporary immunity deal, Davis told LAPD detectives that Combs offered him $1million to murder Death Row Records boss Suge Knight.
Armed agents from the Department of Homeland Security entered Combs's luxury properties in both Miami and Florida on Monday, with video footage showing helicopters circling overhead
Diddy was not at his Star Island mansion in Miami (pictured) when the raid occurred
Homeland Security agents also descended on Combs's Holmby Hills property in LA (pictured)
'He took me downstairs and he's like, "Man, I wanna get rid of them dudes, man."
'I was like, "We'll wipe their a** out quick, man. It's nothing",' Davis told
