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DEA Agent Allegedly Sells Police Information to Private Investigators

A Drug Enforcement Administration Agent has been charged with illegally accessing law-enforcement computer systems, wire fraud, and bribery for allegedly selling data from police databases to private investigators.

DEA data theft raises privacy concerns, CNET, January 24, 2001.