United States v. Easter

In a bit of police work worthy of a TV show, federal and local law enforcement officers installed audio and video recording devices in a house in Rockford, Illinois, that the Titanic Stones gang then used to deal drugs. The police were given this rare opportunity when the gang’s leader asked a girlfriend to rent a house for him and she went to the police. Officers monitored and recorded the dealing in the house for about a month in 2005 before the dealers discovered the recording devices. Then the authorities swooped in and arrested the dealers. The government indicted 14 defendants on 32…