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Tuesday, March 17, 2009

Crime / 2008 Some Informant You've Got There

Posted by Brendan Kiley on Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 2:20 PM

A prime FBI informant against protesters at the Republican National Convention has waived the right to his own trial:

An undercover FBI informant who infiltrated an anarchist group planning disruptions at the Republican National Convention waived his right to a trial on Monday for an unrelated incident in which he is charged with five counts of assault, burglary and damage to property.

Information from the informant—Andrew Darst—is being used against the RNC 8, who will stand trial for criminal conspiracy to disrupt the Republican National Convention in St. Paul. He's waiving his trial, presumably, because is own criminal case (and the public airing of its details) could undermine his credibility as a witness.

His own crime?

On Jan. 11, Darst was arrested for breaking down a door and entering a house in Minnetrista and assaulting two men around 2 a.m. He told police he was "wasn't comfortable with the people his wife was with there." According to the police report, Darst struck two men.

Sounds like this star witness and undercover informant has got some issues.

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Do we know if he steals wine?

Posted by Sister, I need wine on March 17, 2009 at 2:25 PM

Look, you're gonna have to make a statement on it sooner or later, guys.

Posted by Seriously. Come on already. on March 17, 2009 at 2:30 PM

There is no need to steal wine.

There are some very good reds I can recommend and they're only $8.99 per bottle.

QFC has them in stock.

Posted by informant on March 17, 2009 at 2:30 PM

@2, apparently not.

They will just continue deleting comments.

Stranger doesn't care about integrity.

Posted by pinot anyone? on March 17, 2009 at 2:32 PM

@3

Do they limit one per household? At 8.99, that's practically a steal!

Posted by Taco Bell fan on March 17, 2009 at 2:41 PM

Because I'm so sure a dismissed shoplifting charge is "news". You're a nerd.

Posted by freddy on March 17, 2009 at 2:41 PM

God, you PI blogging refugees are so moronic.

Posted by Will in Seattle on March 17, 2009 at 2:51 PM

@6, where has it been reported as "dismissed"? I've seen it nowhere. You know that if Joel Connelly or anyone else had charges like this that they'd already be tried in a certain Stranger staffer's mind, and it would be brought up in EVERY POST on them thereafter.

Seriously. You think this will get that certain Stranger staffer to show a little more fucking perspective or humility? Yeah, probably not.

Posted by yup. on March 17, 2009 at 2:53 PM

What was his wife doing hanging out with strange men at 2am? There's more to the story, I'm sure.

Posted by Jason Josephes on March 17, 2009 at 2:53 PM

From the sound of it, "taking refuge" might make more sense than "hanging out".

Posted by Fnarf on March 17, 2009 at 2:59 PM

@8 exactly. ECB routinely savages other columnists - Westneat, Brodeur, Connelly, etc.

Tell us, Erica, why do you feel the rest of us should subsidize your alcohol consumption?

Tell us, Erica, why do free paper bags at the grocery store annoy you so much when apparently you don't believe in BUYING STUFF THERE.

@7 Will we are not P-I refugees. We fully understand how pathetic ECB is.

Posted by Red Wine $8.99 a bottle on March 17, 2009 at 3:18 PM

Ah, now I see. The charges weren't dismissed; she just cut a deal. Will we see her in orange by the side of I-5 picking up trash?

Posted by stick to rambling about food in the future, ECB on March 17, 2009 at 3:31 PM

@11 - um, those aren't columnists.

Or didn't you notice the PI folded today?

Posted by Will in Seattle on March 17, 2009 at 3:49 PM

Oh #12 I hope not. She is not a food writer, although at the Stranger everyone can review restaurants after all it's just someones lifes work and their families survival we are taliking about. Not as important as a a good trashing in public.

Posted by cafepuppy on March 17, 2009 at 3:52 PM

@13 sort of impossible to not notice the PI given eighty posts a day on Slog, don't you think?

They are columnists, just unemployed. Brodeur has a column in the Seattle Times today.

Posted by red red wine makes me feel so fine on March 17, 2009 at 4:08 PM

ERICA C BARNETT STOLE MY HEART.

Posted by hate the idea of registered comments but dammit, maybe. on March 17, 2009 at 4:24 PM

Nicole has far more class than you @15.

Posted by Will in Seattle on March 17, 2009 at 4:36 PM

WIS @7, This isn't any different than the "normal" haters when ECB posts something. I don't know if I even agree with a single opinion she holds, and yet, I'm drawn to defending her, although I stay out of the fray, since this one time, long ago.

Posted by Tizzle on March 17, 2009 at 6:09 PM

Speaking of trials... I wonder how the hearing of a local alt-weekly news editor busted for shoplifting went? Word is she got eight hours community service and has to stay way the fuck away from QFC.

Posted by Vino Rossi on March 17, 2009 at 6:41 PM