FBI files tell how addicted agent was able to get the drugs

[mahatmakanejeeves]

FBI files tell how addicted agent was able to get the drugs

Crime
By Peter Hermann January 15 at 10:02 PM
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FBI agent Matthew Lowry checked out Item 1B4 from the evidence room at the bureau’s Washington field office on an August morning in 2013. He wrote “to lab” on a log sheet to explain why he was taking drugs that had been seized in an undercover operation dubbed Midnight Hustle.

But it was nearly a year later when he delivered the drug package to the lab. For 10 months, court records show, the heroin had gone unaccounted for and unmissed. When the package made it back to the FBI office in September, it weighed 1.1 grams more than when it had been seized.

Someone had tampered with the contents, prosecutors said later.

The package is one piece of a tale that has unfolded in recent months — the case of an FBI agent who, by his own admission, repeatedly stole heroin from evidence bags for his personal use. In the process, he sabotaged drug cases that he and his colleagues had labored on for months. Prosecutors have dismissed charges against 28 defendants in three cases, many of whom had already been convicted, and they say it could affect 150 other defendants.

How an FBI agent compromised a case

[Malraiders]

1. LOL FBI Agent is a double agent in the war on drugs. nt

[99th_Monkey]

2. Wow. I wonder what will happen to Agent Lowry.

Maybe a paid vacation at a posh 'recovery' facility?

After skrewing up so many FBI cases that took years to
build, I hope they can his ass, if not charge him with
theft.

Actually ON EDIT the article says: &quot Lowry) has not been
charged with a crime, but he was suspended from his
job and entered into drug counseling immediately after
he was found in September."