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Dallas home invader snitches, walks free, then fingers competitors while starting up new crew

A frequent theme on this blog has explored the risks from law enforcement tolerating crimes by informants to seek out other defendants who may or may not even be guilty. It's a slippery slope that Dallas prosecutors may soon discover isn't worth the risk when dealing with seriously dangerous criminals. Reports Tanya Eiserer at the Dallas Morning News ("Robber committed Dallas-area heists while free on bond, police say," May 8): A confessed robber out on bond after he masterminded a series of violent North Texas home invasions apparently formed a new gang and went right back to his old ways. In February 2008, William Sedric Autrey reached a plea deal with prosecutors and agreed to work as an undercover informant against others in a gang believed responsible for dozens of home invasions and burglaries between 2005 and 2008...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on May 09, 2010 (boomark / email).