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But as they attended a private cremation tonight there was still no word from the local criminal informants.

Criminal informant schemes have often been used as cover for politically motivated intelligence offensives.

But solving such crimes, experienced officers say, usually depends on criminal informants and canvassing of the neighborhood.

The agents in Nevada had, for several months, been listening to secret conversations recorded by a criminal informant on their payroll.

"They will develop and operate criminal informants.

However, Connie was killed in season two, while shacking up with a murderer in a criminal informant assignment.

Lemansky later becomes a fugitive after Kavanaugh charges him with stealing heroin from a criminal informant's house.

The memo was to include the specifics of Dunbar's demand that Salem be worked as a criminal informant, and how the entire operation had unraveled.

The Post said that since the original allegation, "the accusations have snowballed as a cavalcade of criminal informants have testified before the grand jury."

The ASAC had wanted Salem to wear a wire and become a criminal informant, risking exposure.

Her investigative work was greatly helped by her criminal informant, a drug addict known as Bubbles (Andre Royo).

Five days later, the Los Angeles Times named Presser as a U.S. government criminal informant.

He also appeared as criminal informant Eddie Myers in the acclaimed 1992 British TV film Framed.

During the search for Angie, who they learn was murdered by Antwon Mitchell, Lem raided a criminal informant's house in search of information.

Stop Snitchin' refers to a controversial 2004 campaign launched in Baltimore, Maryland, to persuade criminal informants to stop "snitching", or informing, to law enforcement.

To his amazement, he learns that Lawrence Isabella (Ben Stiller), the Don's son and a criminal informant, witnessed the murder.

As an agent he was also one of the primary agents involved in developing the Top Echelon Criminal Informants Program in New England.

Vic revealed the name of a criminal informant of then estranged partner, Shane Vendrell, to the Latino cigarette-smuggling boss he was informing on.

There are three sets of characters caught in turf wars and betrayals: New York City detectives, F.B.I. agents and their criminal informants.

DOJ defended its actions by pointing to Presser's long-time role as a criminal informant, but members of Congress were unhappy that DOJ seemed willing tolerate corruption in the nation's largest labor movement.

Marvin Elkind, aka "the Weasel", Jimmy Hoffa's former driver and criminal informant profiled by Adrian Humphreys in The Weasel: A Double Life in the Mob (2011, Wiley)

With the help of the FBI's own criminal informants James "Whitey" Bulger and Stephen "The Rifleman" Flemmi, they were able to gain a great deal of incriminating information regarding Angiulo's racketeering operations.

Quite frequently, confidential informants (or criminal informants) will provide information in order to obtain lenient treatment for themselves and provide information, over an extended period of time, in return for money or for police to overlook their own criminal activities.

But courts properly recognize and enforce the deals and promises that help induce and protect criminal informants and accomplice witnesses, in what Brooklyn Federal Judge Jack B. Weinstein once frankly described as a "netherworld of perdition."

But F.B.I. agents sometimes allowed criminal informants to engage in criminal activities without getting needed approval from supervisors or lawyers for such operations, failed to report unauthorized illegal activity, or approved such illegal activity only retroactively, the review found.