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The detectives posed as dealers. The cocaine they peddled was real.
Detectives posing as drug dealers -- a tactic known as a reverse sting -- is legal and not new, although defense lawyers often criticize it as entrapment.
MIAMI -- After days of discreet phone calls, Jason Elysse flew from Boston to meet a drug dealer at a busy IHOP in Hialeah, Florida. Over hot chocolate and scrambled eggs, they discussed the surging price of street drugs and a plan for Elysse to buy at least a kilogram of cocaine.
To grease the wheels, the dealer insisted that Elysse take a free baggie of the stuff to try after leaving the pancake house. Like a sample at Costco, the dealer would later testify.
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