For the most part, the downtown St. Paul drug dealers were an accommodating bunch, eager to win the trust of the man in the wheelchair buying everything: marijuana, crack cocaine, muscle relaxers.
Turns out, though, the man in the electric wheelchair was not to be trusted -- from the dealers' point of view, at least.
For a second straight year, St. Paul police have conducted a three-month crackdown on downtown dealing -- this time with an undercover operation targeting dealers working the streets near drop-in centers for the poor.
The undercover officer helped build cases resulting in criminal charges against 108 people, Ramsey County Attorney Susan Gaertner said at a news conference July 28.
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Tuesday, July 29, 2008
Wheelchair-user cop helps bust drug ring
The Minneapolis Star Tribune reports about a sting operation there using an undercover cop who uses a power wheelchair to gain the trust of drug dealers and then bust them.