[lexington minuteman 1775]

Police informants are not known for their stellar pedigree...

[FourPeas]

Which, of course, is why they’re informants.

[FourPeas]

Welch was visiting McCluskey at the medium-security prison in June when a random search of Welch and her vehicle turned up marijuana, heroin and drug paraphernalia, Mohave County sheriff’s spokeswoman Trish Carter said.

Welch wasn’t jailed because she agreed to become an informant, and she provided information about the suppliers of the drugs, Carter said. Welch told investigators she was being paid by members or associates of supremacists to smuggle heroin into the prison as she had successfully done three times before, but she declined to say who the items were intended for at the prison.

I should have included this in the initial excerpt above.