|
Newsbrief:
Informant
Nailed
for
Fake
Ecstasy
Scam
3/21/03
Sometimes you just have to
feel bad for the DEA. Even their paid snitches do 'em wrong.
It happened last July to the Gulf Coast High Intensity Drug Trafficking
Area (HIDTA) narcs, and now the snitch in question will be spending a few
months in federal prison.
"Confidential informant"
A 19-year old in Michigan was found guilty of conspiring
to defraud the government of $6,000 in an undercover drug buy and was sentenced
last week to three months in federal prison, two years of probation, and
a $2,500 fine. While working with HIDTA, the individual joined with an
older friend in a scheme to peddle Primatene pills as ecstasy
tablets to undercover narcs in a drug buy they assumed was a preliminary,
or "walk up," to the deal that would lead to a bust. Oops.
The HIDTA narcs actually tested their dope, and the two went
to jail.
At sentencing last week,
he apologized to the judge, saying he "got caught up in the moment
of making money." Local newspaper accounts did not reveal why he
was working for the local HIDTA, but people typically become informants
after being arrested themselves and threatened with decades in prison if
they don't cough up others. Maybe his heart wasn't really
in his work.
-- END --
|
Issue #279, 3/21/03
New York City Mayor Bloomberg Backs Needle Exchange, But Where's the Money? | Medical Marijuana Update: Bills Killed in Arkansas, Wyoming But Moving Forward in Maryland, Vermont, Bad Bill Introduced in Oregon | UN Says Colombian Coca Cultivation Down 30 Percent, Overall Production Down, Too -- Experts Say Not Really | Newsbrief: Marco Cappato in Jail for British Marijuana Civil Disobedience | Newsbrief: Mexican Governor Candidate Says Legalize Drugs | Newsbrief: Guardian Newspaper Calls on Britons to Promote Home Grows, Not Prosecute Them | Newsbrief: Vancouver Ponders "Safe Smoking Materials" for Crack Users | Newsbrief: Medical Marijuana Hits the Shelves in Dutch Pharmacies | Newsbrief: New Jersey Bans Racial Profiling | Newsbrief: NJ Weedman Sues Comcast, Asks $420,000 | Newsbrief: House Republicans Hold Off on Subpoena of Federal Judge | Newsbrief: Informant Nailed for Fake Ecstasy Scam | The Reformer's Calendar
|
This issue -- main page
This issue -- single-file printer version
Drug War Chronicle -- main page
Chronicle archives
|
PERMISSION to reprint or
redistribute any or all of the contents of Drug War Chronicle (formerly The Week Online with DRCNet is hereby
granted. We ask that any use of these materials include proper credit and,
where appropriate, a link to one or more of our web sites. If your
publication customarily pays for publication, DRCNet requests checks
payable to the organization. If your publication does not pay for
materials, you are free to use the materials gratis. In all cases, we
request notification for our records, including physical copies where
material has appeared in print. Contact: StoptheDrugWar.org: the Drug Reform Coordination Network,
P.O. Box 18402, Washington, DC 20036, (202) 293-8340 (voice), (202)
293-8344 (fax), e-mail [email protected]. Thank
you.
Articles of a purely
educational nature in Drug War Chronicle appear courtesy of the DRCNet
Foundation, unless otherwise noted.
|
