The longer the time elapsed, the less likely that the informant has retained freshness of recollection or can offer new information. |
The informant had a plan of double-crossing us from the beginning, and sold us out to some civilian from this area. |
A former go-go dancer who now works as his paid informant, she pulls a small Ziploc bag from her purse and slides it across the table. |
The informant laughed when he told her, so she guessed it must be someone important. |
During police interviews Roberts denied the robbery and claimed that Lane was an informant who was being paid by the police to shop him. |
Since 1987 police can get a search warrant on the word of an informant who does not even have to be named. |