But you cannot find out any information about the number of confidential informants that are being used across this country, much less the number of people who are being killed or injured. Lance Block: Law enforcement is loaded with statistics. Lesley Stahl: Do you have any sense of how many confidential informants there are? He sued the City of Tallahassee and won a $2.8 million settlement for Rachel's parents, and he has argued for more openness and greater protection for confidential informants ever since. Rachel Hoffman's tragic death turned Block into an advocate. John Sadek: We've never heard of such a thing, ya know - using college students for snitches or whatever you wanna call 'em, stool pigeons, or I don't know what you call 'em, you know? Tammy Sadek: We'd have gotten him a lawyer and told him, "No." Lesley Stahl: If Andrew had told you that he was thinking of becoming a confidential informant, what do you think your reaction would've been? The Sadeks are a ranching family still struggling with the death of their older son in a train accident years earlier, leaving Andrew an only child. (Sadek nods)]Īn award-winning student of electrical technology, Andrew Sadek did as he was told: never told any of his close friends about being an informant never called a lawyer and didn't breathe a word to his parents, Tammy and John Sadek. Jason Weber: You can't tell anybody you're working for me. Part of the agreement he signed: keep the whole thing strictly to himself.
Obviously you're probably not gonna get 40 years, but is it a good possibility that you're gonna get some prison time, if you don't help yourself out? Yeah, there is, 'k? That's probably not a way to start off your young adult life and career, right? (Sadek nods)] [Jason Weber: Potentially the max is 40 years in prison, $40,000 fine. Weber has called Sadek in before charging him to present a choice: agree to work as a C.I., wear a wire and make undercover drug buys from three people, twice each - or be charged with two Class A felonies.
This young man, Andrew Sadek, was caught on tape by another confidential informant making two sales - for a total of $80. Marijuana is now legal in four states and the District of Columbia, but not in North Dakota, where selling even a small amount on a campus is a Class A felony, with a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison, a fine of $20,000, or both. Weber's jurisdiction includes the campus of the North Dakota State College of Science, with some 3,000 students. Lesly Stahl: Are most of the kids that you're recruiting caught for marijuana sales? They make our jobs easier just because they are already the ones that are out there that know who the drugs dealers are and rely on them. Jason Weber: Yeah, confidential informants are really important to law enforcement across the country.
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