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The federal raids of Sean “Diddy” Combs’ L.A. and Miami homes may be connected to the 1996 fatal shooting of Tupac Shakur, according to a retired head of the Los Angeles FBI office.

Phil Carson believes that information backing search warrants that led to the raids could have come from Shakur murder suspect Duane “Keefe D” Davis, who was charged last year. The ex-agent spent years examining police corruption related to the deaths of Shakur and Christopher “The Notorious B.I.G.” Wallace.

In an interview with Daily Mail, Carson referenced Davis’s 2023 arrest after he confessed to being involved with Shakur’s murder. Davis insisted it was a $1 million hit that came directly through Combs, though the Hip-Hop mogul has denied it.

Carson explained:

“It’s not like the olden days of the Italian mafia where everybody kept their mouth shut. 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. 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.”

Carson added: “That’s not to say it’s the reason federal law enforcement executed these warrants on Diddy’s house. 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.”

The former agent is seemingly correct in his assessment: There likely had to be substantial evidence against Combs for Homeland Security agents to storm the mansions. However, the raids were allegedly tied to a sex trafficking investigation and there’s no official connection between the raids and Shakur’s murder

Four women have filed lawsuits against Combs for sexual assault.