
The former manager of late hip-hop icon Biz Markie has just been revealed as a Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) informant who worked for the U.S. Mansour, II of the Narcotics Unit and Rachel Kranitz McPhee of the Special Victims/Domestic Violence Bureau. The government has long monitored the inner workings of the hip-hop world, often using insiders to do its bidding. The goal of this training is to improve student's individual and organizational performance and assist them in. The case was prosecuted by Assistant District Attorney James W. The mission of the Drug Enforcement Administration's (DEA) Office of Training is to develop, deliver and advocate preeminent law enforcement and non-law enforcement training to DEA personnel as well as appropriate federal, state, local, and foreign law enforcement counterparts. Khan pleaded guilty to two counts of Criminal Sale of a Controlled Substance in the Third Degree (Class “B” felonies), the highest counts in the indictment against him, on January 5, 2022.ĭA Flynn commends the DEA Buffalo Office, Erie County Medical Examiner’s Office and Erie County Central Police Services Laboratory their work in this investigation. Mule: My Dangerous Life As A Drug Smuggler Turned Dea Informant Heifner author of Mule: My Dangerous Life as a Drug Smuggler Turned DEA Informant, C. The crimes occurred on Maand Apat two different locations in the City of Buffalo. The defendant admitted to selling an amount of fentanyl-laced heroin to the informant on two separate occasions. Agents also tapped phone defendant pleads not guiltyFederal drug agents used a confidential informant, phone taps and photographic surveillance in their. The defendant is believed to have supplied a potentially deadly mixture of heroin, containing fentanyl and tramadol, to drug dealers and users in the Buffalo area. The defendant was the subject of a joint investigation conducted by the United State Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Buffalo Office and the Erie County District Attorney’s Office following numerous fatal opioid overdoses that occurred between Spring and Fall 2018.

He was sentenced today as a second felony offender. A contract is a very specific thing in the eyes of the law, said Toro’s attorney, Michael Avery, and DEA officials generally avoid giving their sources clear. Wojtaszek to a determinate sentence of 6 years in prison followed by 18 months of post-release supervision. The government’s decision in Toro’s case shows how easy it is for the DEA to take advantage of confidential informants, and how difficult it is for informants to seek legal recourse.

Flynn announces that 26-year-old Khaled Khan of Buffalo was sentenced this morning before State Supreme Court Justice Paul B. The DEA did not name which suspect was the informant for the agency, but it noted it was one of the two people arrested last week, adding that the suspects 'were not acting on behalf of DEA.
