Unlike my usual blog posts, this post has more to do with common sense than with legal issues. While I cannot advise clients to buy illegal drugs, if they happen to be confidential police informants, I can advise them NOT to buy drugs for personal use from the same drug dealer they had just bought drugs from as part of a police sting operation. Apparently, this advice needs to be put out there.
Yesterday, a man in Falmouth, ME informed the police of a heroin dealer and was then hired as an informant to buy drugs from the dealer in a buy-bust operation. The police gave him marked bills and observed him make the drug transaction. After buying the drugs, the informant returned to the police with a bag of heroin. The police then payed him $100. The informant then immediately went back to the very same drug dealer and bought another bag of heroin for himself. Of course, the dealer was still under surveillance and both he AND the informant were arrested. The informant was arrested for a drug possession felony within just hours of being hired as an informant.
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