Andre Moore’s home based on a tip from a confidential informant.
Officers found enough contraband to put Moore in prison for 13 years if convicted.
But when two public defenders started asking whether the informant really existed, the case fell apart.
Botched Minneapolis drug case raises questions over secrecy of informants
By Andy Mannix • Star Tribune • May 15, 2021
Shotguns and halogen lights ready, the Minneapolis SWAT team heaved a battering ram into the entrance of the North Side duplex and burst up to the second story.
It was still early on the February 2020 morning. Andre Moore stirred awake to a voice shouting about a warrant. He stumbled out of bed in pajama pants, expecting to find a friend playing a joke. Instead he ran into a dozen police officers ripping apart his living room. Moore dropped to the carpet and raised his hands in surrender.