ABAJ: Swallowing anonymous tip in court gets Crime Stoppers chief cited for contempt by Martha Neil:<\/p>\n
Ordered by a Florida judge Friday to hand over an anonymous tip that led to a cocaine possession case, the executive director of Miami-Dade Crime Stoppers instead swallowed the evidence right in the courtroom.<\/p>\n
That resulted in a contempt citation against Richard Masten, who could get as much as two weeks in jail for disobeying the judge’s order, NBC 6 South Florida reports.<\/p>\n
Although the paper he swallowed did not identify the tipster, Masten said he was afraid that handing the tip over to the judge would have set a dangerous precedent concerning those whom Crime Stoppers has promised to protect when they provide information anonymously on a telephone hotline. Masten said it is possible that information provided by the tipster listed on the sheet could have revealed his or her identity.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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