Ex-DEA Informant Jorge Hernández Charged in Extortion Scheme MIAMI (AP) — Jorge Hernández, a former top informant for the U S Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), has been arrested and charged with conspiring to extort suspected drug traffickers by falsely promising leniency in their prosecutions The 57-year-old Colombian national, better known in law enforcement circles by his nickname Boliche (Spanish for bowling ball), is accused of running an
Informant faces extortion charges - PressReader The DEA terminated his cooperation agreement in 2008, court records show, after authorities discovered he had threatened to expose informants as snitches unless they paid him to keep quiet But he kept close to some of his former DEA handlers and eventually returned to Miami