Legal Opinion
United States v. Joseph Spriggs, III
Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
Decided February 20, 1997No. 94-3067, 94-3097, 94-3111 and 94-3114PublishedCited by 69 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion for the court filed PER CURIAM. 1
2Per curiam
The four appellants, all salesmen at well-known Washington-area suburban car dealerships, were caught in an elaborate sting operation in which an undercover police officer posed as a big-time District of Columbia drug dealer seeking to buy cars with the cash proceeds of cocaine sales.
The undercover officer, D.C. Police Detective Larry Best, worked under the operational name “Rob” and was part of a FBI/IRS/Metropolitan Police Department task force aimed at uncovering the laundering at suburban car dealerships of drug money generated in the District of…
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