20-Yr-Old College Student Threatened With 40-Yr Jail Sentence For Selling Pot Becomes Informant, Found Shot Dead

Chris | InformationLiberation
Jun. 16, 2015

After 20-year-old North Dakota College student Andrew Sadek was caught selling 4.5 grams of pot to a confidential informant, state prosecutors threatened him with 40 years in jail, saying he sold the pot in a "school zone" which makes it a felony and carries an increased penalty.

In this case, the "school zone" was the entire college itself, not some elementary school filled with children, but a college filled with experimental youth who pop drugs like candy.

Nonetheless, they provided an out to Sadek, become a confidential informant yourself, set up some other small level drug dealers, and they'll drop their charges.

Afraid of life in prison, Sadek agreed to work as an informant, but after a few small deals he went missing. Sadek was later found dead in a river with a bullet wound in his head and a backpack full of rocks on his back.

Police said it was a suicide and his death wasn't suspicious, nonetheless they hid the fact he was working as informant from his family, whom only found out later through local press investigating his suspicious death.

In this video from Reason TV, they speak with Sadek's mother and question the local police, who tell them in so many words they're not going to change any of their policies based off the case.