The fugitive hip-hop mogul, James Rosemond, who was recently linked to a Tupac Shakur shooting has been arrested.
According to the Associated Press, Federal authorities said Tuesday that Drug Enforcement Administration agents had arrested James Rosemond on cocaine-dealing charges.
The arrest follows the report that Rosemond, owner of Czar Entertainment, was involved in the shooting of rapper, Tupac Shakur outside a Manhattan recording studio.
Last week, convicted felon, Dexter Isaac admitted that he was the one who shot Tupac Shakur. Already in jail for murder and robbery, Isaac had always been a suspect in the 1994 shooting but has now admitted to committing the crime.
Isaac accused the founder of Czar Entertainment, James “Jimmy Henchman” Rosemond, as the man behind the assault. According toAllHipHop.com, Isaac admitted to being paid $2,500 dollars by Rosemond to rob Shakur outside the New York recording studio.
Isaac confessed his involvement in a statement sent to AllHipHop.com and named Rosemond as the man behind it.
“In 1994, James Rosemond hired me to rob 2Pac Shakur at the Quad Studio. He gave me $2,500, plus all the jewelry I took, except for one ring, which he wanted for himself. It was the biggest of two diamond rings that we took. He said he wanted to put the stone in a new setting for his girlfriend at the time, Cynthia Ried. I still have as proof the chain that we took that night in the robbery,” Isaac said through the statement.
He continued, “Mr. Rosemond, I ask you: Are you going to flip on Puffy when the feds get you? To save yourself like you have done in the past? Because that’s what a rat does. So in closing, we shall see who the rat is, in the near future.”
Rosemond’s lawyer, Jeffrey Lichtman, responded to New York Daily News with: “It’s a flat-out lie. Dexter Isaac is not claiming this 17 years later to clear his conscience. He’s doing it because he’s told anybody who will listen he doesn’t want to die in prison. He has kids and wants to work off his sentence. He can’t be trusted.”