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."
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