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 ...
When a law enforcement crackdown on the Texas Mexican Mafia nearly obliterated the criminal organization's San Antonio leadership in 2004, it created a power vacuum that led to Joe “Pancho” Pena's ...
WASHINGTON (AP) -- A House committee concluded Thursday that the FBI shielded from prosecution known killers and other criminals whom it used as informants to investigate organized crime in New ...