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Dallas Sheriff: Deputies were right to allow armed robbery by snitch

By Gritsforbreakfast

Dallas Sheriff Lupe Valdez says she hasn't read a report about one of her deputies assigned to the auto theft task force who knew ahead of time his informant planned to commit a robbery in Waxahachie. Reported the Dallas News yesterday ("Dallas County Sheriffs department task force criticized for truck heist," April 29): When several men broke into a Waxahachie truck terminal last October, tied up a security guard at gun point and crashed a semi-trailer loaded with $1 million in cigarettes through the front gate, they didn?t know one of them was a snitch for the Dallas County Sheriff?s Department. A sheriff?s detective who was in contact with the informant that night said he didn?t know the crime would turn into an armed robbery...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on April 30, 2008 (boomark / email).