The use of Confidential Human Sources

The DEA, along with HSI and FBI, use Confidential Human Sources to target and entrap persons into indictments for extradition. CHS persons can make up to several million dollars a year on often tainted prosecutions. The DEA alone spends several hundred million dollars a year on CHS information and they are often former or current drug dealers who are never polygraphed or challenged in any way unless they testify at trial. CHS persons are different than the large pool of cooperating witnesses which are often co-workers who turn in everyone they knew for a chance at a lower sentence. CHS information is called Giglio material and has to be turned over by the Government. However, the Government will often refuse and thus the attorney must be aware of the use of CHS persons and get that information accordingly including their prior criminal history and all information in what is called a DEA 5 file kept on the informant. If you were entrapped by a CHS make sure you have an attorney that knows how to proceed. Mr. Bailey was hired as a consulting expert on one such case in Houston, Texas, in August of 2025, and after requesting specific information on the CHS the case was quickly dismissed.