{"id":282,"date":"2018-01-05T12:18:47","date_gmt":"2018-01-05T17:18:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.clearwatercriminallawyer.net\/?p=282"},"modified":"2026-01-31T09:11:13","modified_gmt":"2026-01-31T14:11:13","slug":"confidential-informants-florida-drug-crime-cases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.criminalattorneyclearwater.net\/blog\/confidential-informants-florida-drug-crime-cases\/","title":{"rendered":"Confidential Informants in Florida Drug Crime Cases"},"content":{"rendered":"

Police often use confidential informants to bolster criminal investigations, including in drug cases. These sources may have criminal records themselves, and cops\u2019 reliance on informants raises a variety of legal issues. That\u2019s especially true in situations in which the person charged with a crime says the police got the wrong man, as Florida\u2019s Second District Court of Appeals recently pointed out<\/a>.A defendant was arrested and charged with numerous drug offenses after he allegedly sold hydrocodone and cocaine to an undercover St. Petersburg police officer. A confidential police informant set up the first transaction by contacting his brother. The CI and undercover officers met the brother and a person he introduced as \u201cDino\u201d at a convenience store. Dino sold the officer Fioricet pills, which he said were hydrocodone. Dino contacted the officer to sell him actual hydrocodone pills two weeks later. It was another five months before the third and final transaction. The officer contacted Dino, who said he didn\u2019t have hydrocodone but sold the officer an eight ball of cocaine instead.<\/p>\n

The officer had some trouble finding out the defendant’s true identity. He took the plate number from the brother’s car and found police records from a traffic stop in which the defendant was in the car. He then found a photo of the defendant and identified him as \u201cDino.\u201d Although the defendant claimed that the officer had found the wrong guy, he was convicted following a trial.<\/p>\n

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