Ok, so I'll lay a CI story on you. This is my brother in law, who is now deceased so I don't think he would mind me sharing a personal story about his exploits.
So he was rolling with a friend to go pick up some heroin. Everything went all good, they got to the buy spot, and the deal went off without a hitch. So they get back to the west side of town from
The east side where they came from, and the second that they got back to the west side off the freeway, four unmarked units rolled up on the car, two SUV's and two cruiser units. All had guns drawn, n pulled him and his homie outta the car. My brother had a gram on him and was too stupid to nutsack it, so they found it in his pocket immediately. My brother rolled like a bitch without blinking, telling the cops that he'd do whatever they wanted him to do. So they uncuffed him and put him in the back of the truck. After that they were super nice to him obviously lol. They took him to an unmarked site away from the police station, apparently
He was then at this point dealing with the county's joint task force division, and he found out that the dealer he met up with at the same time he was doing his deal with my brother, was on the phone with a kid that was a snitch, and was too scared to meet up with the dealer, so he hung up on the kid snitching and did the deal with my brother. Well, apparently there was a chopper overhead plus an unmarked following the kid that didn't do the deal and they all saw my brother roll in and out of the area, and decided to follow him back, and as soon as he hit the west side they busted his ass.
ANYWAY, my brother was now under the command of the task force. Serious shit. They put him in a room with these two cops, who run snitches. They made him fill out paperwork that said that as a CI, he was not allowed to do drugs or be under the influence of drugs at any time, made him sign his name stating that he would comply, and that at any time during his snitch dry, his house and his phone could be made to become property of the police and searched or confiscated at any time...made him sign his name on a separate piece of paper three times for proof that it was his signature and the cops didn't forge it or some shit, and took his picture and made a Ci file in his name. And right after he signed everything the cops told him to forget the using part and he was to go about his usual business and do dope and that they wouldn't FUCK with him or his usual drug dealers, only the one he was snitching on. Which struck me as wierd but whatever. All he wanted to do was stay outta the charge he faced, and gave the task force a snack in the form of a low level dealer that he hardly had any dealings with. The cops didn't need his help for the dealer he just met, that dude was already fcked 5 ways to Sunday. So anyways they were down to bust pretty much anyone my bro could give them so he gave them a nobody dealer. Anyways, they told him 3 wired buys and he was free and clear. So he did the deed. First one went slick, two grams, bought and turned in, my bro was searched before the buy, and then wired up in the form of a polo shirt with the bottom button of the collar cut off and a button camera replaced it. Also in the car was a cd case on the visor with a camera in it, and a baby seat in the back with cameras in each side.
So he was pretty well covered with sound and video.
When he got back from the deal, he was searched again to make sure that he didn't buy anything on the side but they woulda known anyway. Because it was all on record. So the first deal went down n the cops were happy. Second deal, same scenario, only they lied to him and told
Him that the audio was down and they didn't make him wear a cam and they just loaded cams into the car. Second deal went well. Same as the first. So far, they hadn't given him any cash as a reward for doing these buys, after all, he was a junky and he was dope sick every time he went to do these things.
Third time around, was supposed to be the last time. He coulda did this one and been done, and before the deal went down he asked if he could get some cash to get himself off sick. Notning major just like 50 bucks. They said no, but maybe if he stayed on after this last deal they'd start paying him to work with them. So pissed off, he hit up the dealer before he met up with the cops and set it up to where he was picking up the usual two grams, but he was gonna short the dealers 80 bucks and owe it to him at a later time. I mean what did he care! He was never gonna see the dealers ever again, and the cops woulda never known. Anyway he met up with the cops and they searched him again, told him there was still a problem with audio, and not to worry cuz it would all be on cam anyway. So the deal went down, only while he was in the car the dealer was like "ok so u owe me 80 bucks", and my bro was like "of course man don't worry about it". So he went back, got searched by the cops, and was let go, deal done, and he had 80 bucks under his nuts where the cops wouldn't find it. He got home and immediately hit up his REAL dealer and scored a .75 bag, came home and did the dope. RIGHT after he hit a vein, the cops were at his door, pounding on that shit, fuckin screaming for him to come down and answer the door. He opened up, and they were like "we know u stole 80 bucks from us, where's it at?" He denied it for a minute but they pressed him so hard that he eventually admitted it and told them that it was gone cuz he copped the dope right after he left the cops.
Suffice it to say the cops weren't impressed and VERY pissed off. They went on to tell him that they couldn't use the wired buys anymore because he stole from them, and if the defending attorney were to find out about it, all he would have to do is bring it up in court and the evidence would be thrown out because he wouldn't be a trustworthy source. Which baffles me because it's wired buys on tape and video. They see dude making the drug buys and it's all in plain sight. So they tell
My brother that not only is this shit unusable, but they're gonna charge him with the original possession charge plus they were gonna pursue an additional charge of stealing from the task force... A charge that I can't remember the exact name of, but the reprecussions are MAJOR, and combining the theft with the possession charge he was probably looking at 5 years minimum. They said they weren't gonna cuff him up right then, but they stole his phone, and kept it for two weeks. He didn't hear back from the cops for the whole two weeks, and when they came back to give him his phone back, they said they weren't pressing charges at this time. But they did say they were gonna indict him, and he didn't need to worry cuz they would come back personally (his "handlers", let's call them Jack1 and Jack2).... And arrest him when the indictment came down. This left him pale white and begging them to just see shit from his point of view, and begged like a motherfucker to just cut him a break. He had no felonies on his record and no major drug charges outside of a minor pot possession charge from 1999. They fuckin ignored him, gave him his phone back after having it for two weeks and doing god knows what with it including going thru texts, calls, Facebook shit, contacts, n God knows what else... They gave his phone back, said what I said they said previously, and drove off. It was well over a year since he last heard from them but he was paranoid right up to the day he overdosed. If he had lived, do you think he was still in danger of being indicted? I have no idea because I have zero experience in this, but I'd like to think that he was in the clear... Especially since when they took his phone they had already told him that they were done with him couldn't use him and he was going to jail, and THEN they took his phone, which means technically that they would have needed a warrant to confiscate the phone because his "employment" as a CI had been terminated..... I dunno what to make of it, but isn't there a time frame that they would need to be under in order to indict him effectively???
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