How Cops Hide Surveillance Snooping From Courts: New at Reason

https://reason.com/blog/2018/03/15/how-cops-hide-surveillance-snooping-from

In 2004, Ascension Alverez-Tejeda and his girlfriend were stopped at a traffic light in Oregon when their car was rear-ended by a drunk driver. The police arrived and arrested the drunk, but while Alverez-Tejeda was outside dealing with the situation, a thief jumped in his car and tore off down the road.

Police recovered the car and, after obtaining a search warrant from a judge, found in it cocaine and methamphetamine that Alverez-Tejeda was trafficking from California to Washington.

It looked like a case of very bad luck for Alverez-Tejeda. The truth didn’t come out until the trial: The whole thing had been staged. The only ones who weren’t in on the plot were Alverez-Tejeda, his girlfriend, and the judge who signed the warrant. The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), relying on surveillance and wiretaps, had tipped off local law enforcement to Alverez-Tejeda. The cops then constructed an elaborate ruse to gain probable cause to search his car, writes C.J. Ciaramella for the April print edition of Reason.

One Response

  1. Talk about liars,,,,,like I’ve said,,,ill never trust anyone in the postion of power/authority over us,,,,,including some doctors,,,now a days,,,maryw

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