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...June 11, squads of IAD officers and other police inspectors, 50 in all, fanned out and ar rested the alleged pushers. As many as 20 other cops are suspected of drug peddling, but they were not caught on tape. The investigators wanted to move before their cover, or a life, was lost...
...Wednesday nights. From their unmarked brown van, the investigators watched police drug sale after police drug sale and plenty of sampling. "There they were, not 10 ft. away," recalls Sandberg, still incredulous, "just dipping into the vial and snorting away." Brazen, but not incriminating enough. Sandberg insisted on getting tape recordings of the transactions...
...five months the investigators had failed to get a transaction on tape. Finally, in early March, Chandler convinced Watson that only he would be trusted enough to make the undercover drug buys. Watson would pretend to be a neophyte dealer eager to make a few extra bucks by selling to friends. Often the sales took place in the middle of the night. Watson kept working his regular 8-hr, patrol shift as well as his 4-hr.-a-day outside job as a security guard...
Howard vividly recalls the anxiety of later "overhears." Says he: "Every delay, every long pause, and we wondered-had they figured it out?" In fact, one of the targets did figure it out. Suspecting after a second tape-recorded cocaine sale that he was being set up, the pusher threatened to kill Watson and his family. Instead, Chandler pressured the man to cooperate. "He flipped," says Chandler. "He was looking out for his ass." As it turned out, the "flipper" made drug buys that accounted for ten of the 13 indictments. In return he may escape jail...
...White will say only that it appears to be an older version of Lucy, which is perhaps the most irreverent appellation ever bestowed upon an important fossil. (The name was inspired by the Beatles' song Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds, which the scientists were playing on a tape recorder the night of the find.) White, in any case, has every reason to be cautious. In 1979 he and the leader of the Lucy expedition, Anthropologist Donald Johanson, touched off a major anthropological controversy by lumping Lucy and other East African fossils into a single new species, which they...