Rachel Hoffman

Faced with a possible prison sentence if charged and convicted, she agreed instead to serve as a confidential informant to buy 1,500 ecstasy pills, 2 ounces of cocaine, and a handgun, using $13,000 cash in a buy-bust operation. While she worked undercover, police lost track of her and she was killed by two assailants. Deneilo R.Additional charges are pending. The Tallahassee Police Department admits that Hoffman had no training to work undercover, she did not know the two men targeted in the sting, and she had no experience with cocaine or firearms.
The two have been charged by a grand jury with first degree murder.
Dateline NBC is scheduled to cover this story on Friday, 16-Jan-2009, at 10:00 PM, 9 Central time.
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