Quote History https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/lapd/interviews/poole.html". . . At what point do you start to say to yourself, "Wait a minute, I've got a 'where there's smoke, there's fire' thing here?"
In the summer of 1997--a few months after the Biggie killing--a jailhouse informant was interviewed by two of our detectives. This informant told them that it was a contract hit, that the contract killer in this case first name was Amir. Basically, that was it, pretty much. Of course, there are millions of Amirs in the world, so where do you go? So that clue was kind of stale, until we find out that David Mack has been arrested. The first person to visit David Mack in custody was a man by the name of Amir Muhammad, a.k.a. Harry Billups. . . .
So that's one piece of info. There's a guy named Amir. You've heard about this guy who says that there was a contract hit on Biggie from a guy named Amir, and now he's talking to Mack. That's your connection for Mack and Death Row Records?
Mack admitted during his interviews that he associated with the Blood gang, grew up in Compton. You start making your connections. Suge Knight grew up in Compton. David Mack grew up in Compton. They're both Bloods."