informant

The day before the crime, they bought screwdrivers, duct tape, zip ties and a laser sight, which the informant taped onto a semi-automatic handgun.

In an intercepted call, Castro and Cano discussed “pinning” the drugs and guns on the suspected informant, but agreed it would only work if the alleged snitch was “already dead.”

Detectives put him in a cell with an undercover informant, who posed as a fellow 18th Street member.

She would later cast herself as a sought-after FBI informant who had come to live in fear of some unspecified threat.

The case centres on a neo-Nazi state informant known as Agent X who used his MI5 role to coerce his girlfriend, whom he attacked with a machete.