police informer

Example Sentences

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Proud Boys leader 'once a prolific police informer'

From BBC • Aug. 23, 2021

The police informer persuaded her to return, and she was arrested a month later.

From New York Times • Aug. 6, 2020

“He was very convincing,” says one man who attended Yusuf’s sermons as a police informer.

From Economist • Jul. 12, 2018

He, Harrington and Gates’s defense attorney, Hamilton “Phil” Fox, each said it was the only time in their careers a police informer became a witness.

From Washington Post • Nov. 17, 2015

Half my mind told me that Tom might be a police informer.

From "Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography" by Mark Mathabane