Court documents have revealed that Duane “Keefe D” Davis reportedly went undercover to implicate Sean “Diddy” Combs in the murder of late rapper 2Pac Shakur.
The Sun was the first to report the news after obtaining the 179-page court filed by Las Vegas prosecutors.
Keefe D became an informant after he was caught “trafficking a large amount of drugs” by the task force. Believing he was immune from prosecution, he told investigators that Diddy paid a gangster named Eric “Zip” Martin a million dollars for a hit on Pac. The million dollars also included a hit on Suge Knight.
Tupac murder suspect Keefe D goes off in court and tells the judge that former LA detective Greg Kading broke a proffer agreement and the law.
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Also, Keefe D tells the judge that the boxes of evidence Greg Kading has are from 1996 and shouldn't be allowed because it's tainted… pic.twitter.com/VjPp8Ha7vp
The documents add that Keefe D was “acting in an undercover capacity,” when he came across Martin and his nephew and got into a car with the pair before driving away to visit Martin’s sister.
“After returning, [Keefe D] tried to enlist Mr. Martin in an effort to traffic narcotics,” the documents read. “Mr. Martin indicated he was out of the business but directed him to conduct his drug activities with the nephew.”
Keefe has also claimed in public interviews that Diddy was behind the hit on Pac.
Keefe D in court
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Keefe D appears in Regional Justice Court in Las Vegas, NV, for arraignment with his new attorney, Ross Goodman, the son of former mob attorney Oscar Goodman, on Thursday, Oct. 19, 2023.
By: Ken Ritter/Associated PressPosted at 3:46 PM, Jul 23, 2024
LAS VEGAS (AP) — Sparks flew in court Tuesday as a Nevada judge rebuked a defense attorney and an ailing former Los Angeles-area gang leader lashed out against prosecutors during his renewed effort to be freed from jail to house arrest ahead of his trial in the 1996 killing of hip-hop legend Tupac Shakur.
Clark County District Court Judge Carli Kierny, who last month rejected Duane “Keffe D” Davis’ bid to have a hip-hop music figure put up $112,500 to obtain Davis’ $750,000 bail bond, promised a decision on the bond question “in the next day or two.”
First, though, she expressed doubts about the source of Davis’ funds and scolded defense lawyer Carl Arnold — accusing him of playing up the case to keep media attention on one of hip-hop music’s most enduring mysteries.
“It seems like your plan, your end goal here, is to make some kind of show for the press of this trial,” Kierny said.
“That’s not my end goal here, your honor,” Arnold responded. “My end goal is to win the trial. If they want to follow me with cameras, they can do that.”
Arnold was recently featured in a British tabloid report that said he was fielding offers for a film crew to follow him working on Davis’ behalf. The article quoted Arnold calling Shakur’s death a “legacy” legal case and invoking the memory of Johnnie Cochran, a defense attorney for O.J. Simpson during his 1995 trial in Los Angeles. Cochran, who died in 2005, was famously credited with showing jurors a glove and saying, “If it doesn’t fit, you must acquit.”
Keefe D has been held in a Las Vegas jail since his arrest last September and was recently denied bond even after Wack 100 put the money up for his bond.
