NEW HAVEN, CT (WFSB) - The city of New Haven announced Thursday it will restart its confidential informant program with enhanced oversight after former police Chief Karl Jacobson stole about $10,000 ...
A report found the New Bedford Police Department relies on criminally active confidential informants for drug busts. The city commissioned the report following a Boston Globe series that investigated ...
At least 815 people are registered as confidential informants and working in some capacity for police departments across Massachusetts, according to data gathered by the Spotlight Team. Collectively, ...
An FBI confidential source alleged Jackson City Councilman Kenneth Stokes sought cash payments for city matters. The source claimed to have paid Stokes about $2,000 over 2020 and 2021. Stokes has ...
MSN: New Haven police to restart confidential informant program with enhanced oversight
NEW HAVEN — A city fund the now-former chief of police, Karl Jacobson, is accused of stealing from was used to pay informants in exchange for information connected with ongoing investigations, ...
Confidential informants are the lifeblood of law enforcement's effort to fight crime. But the best informants are generally very bad people — ruthless criminals — and while their information helps the ...
WFSB: Former New Haven police chief accused of stealing more than $80,000 from confidential informant fund