Pubdate: Fri, 30 May 2008 Source: Cowichan Valley Citizen (CN BC) Copyright: 2008 Cowichan Valley Citizen Contact: http://www.canada.com/cowichanvalleycitizen/ Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/4349 Bookmark: http://www.mapinc.org/raids.htm (Drug Raids) POLICE LOOKING INTO INFORMANT IN BOTCHED RAID Saanich police are considering charges against an informant who provided the tip behind a recent botched drug raid. The public mischief charges would be a first levied on a Saanich police informant. Police have publicly apologized for a May 16 raid on a Regina Avenue home the informant described as a clandestine drug lab. No illegal drugs were found in the home. Police are investigating why the informant provided incorrect information in this case. Robin Cushing, whose mother and sister were at home during the raid, said the family is not pressing for charges. "The informant doesn't really matter that much to us," Cushing said. "It was police who took the information, corroborated it and used it." - --- MAP posted-by: Jay Bergstrom