Slow Saturday Special: UMass Police Protecting Heroin Dealer

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Following heroin death, UMass Amherst right to suspend policy of informants

"Investigation into heroin overdose at UMass reopened" by Eric Bosco and Matt Rocheleau | Globe correspondents   October 04, 2014

AMHERST — Prosecutors have reopened the investigation into the fatal heroin overdose of a University of Massachusetts Amherst student after his 0123456789mother gave them the name0123456789 of the student she believes provided him with the drug, according to two people with direct knowledge of the investigation.

Details of the October 2013 death, reported by the Globe this week, prompted UMass officials to suspend the confidential informant program that he had signed up for after he was allegedly caught selling drugs.

Some critics questioned whether police should have provided more help to the student — who is being identified only by his middle name, Logan — for his drug problem.

On Friday, investigators for Northwestern District Attorney David E. Sullivan interviewed Logan’s mother, who this week 0123456789forwarded them the name of the alleged dealer based on text messages she found on her son’s cellphone0123456789. She said she told them they should have discovered the alleged dealer’s identity already, since they had Logan’s phone for weeks after his death.

“How could they not have a name? It was right on the phone,” said Logan’s mother, who said she had no idea that her son, a scholarship student and a former high school hockey star, was using heroin. “It just says to me somebody didn’t do their job.”
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01234567890123456789They were doing their job; that person is obviously an informant themselves if not an actual government agent. That is why nothing has been done.0123456789

Logan’s mother said the investigators asked to meet with her in person, but she was skeptical.

“Interviewing me isn't going to tell you anything, unless you want to know about my son and what a great kid he was,” she said.0123456789 0123456789
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01234567890123456789Look, I'm sorry someone died but he was far from a saint. He was a drug-addicted drug dealer and scum government snitch.0123456789

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UMass Amherst officials 0123456789declined to comment on0123456789 what administrative 0123456789actions, if any0123456789, they are taking 0123456789regarding the alleged heroin dealer0123456789. Normally, alleged drug dealers could face immediate administrative suspension.

“UMass Amherst is cooperating in all matters with the Northwestern district attorney’s office in the death investigation.” UMass spokesman Ed Blaguszewski said in a prepared statement. “The district attorney should be contacted for any comment.”
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The district attorney has 0123456789downplayed the connection0123456789 between Logan’s work as a confidential informant and his death, 0123456789even questioning whether he was an informant despite extensive documentation0123456789 at UMass, including an agreement to be an informant signed by Logan. His office released a statement this week saying that any attempt to link the program to Logan’s death was “misplaced.”0123456789 0123456789
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01234567890123456789(Blog editor can only shake his head. They lie, they lie right to our faces right in front of us. That is the f***ing DA's office!)0123456789

But UMass officials 0123456789reacted swiftly after0123456789 the 0123456789Globe published a story0123456789 Sunday about Logan’s death, first announcing plans to change the confidential informant program to require informants to undergo drug treatment and then suspending the program altogether.
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The Globe has tried 0123456789repeatedly to interview the student 0123456789whose phone number matches the one who was texting Logan the night he died. A reporter contacted the student,0123456789 but0123456789 he 0123456789ended the text exchange when the reporter identified himself as a journalist0123456789, promising to get in touch later.0123456789 0123456789
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01234567890123456789Life is good, huh? 0123456789
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01234567890123456789Must be a hell of a thing to be so evil and have immunity from law enforcement.0123456789

Logan’s mother said that over the last year, she assumed that investigators were continuing to look into her son’s death. She could not get detailed information when she called Amherst police, who told her the case had been referred to a drug task force.
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01234567890123456789Look at her getting the run around.0123456789

However, after the Globe story disclosed that the alleged dealer is 0123456789still on campus0123456789, she learned that UMass 0123456789officials did not know his name and they were unable to get it0123456789 from investigators....
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01234567890123456789Why is this person being protected and their identity hidden? Why are they not being arrested for dealing drugs? 0123456789
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01234567890123456789I'm starting to wonder jwho they might be or jwho they know.0123456789

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