Undercover Agent

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The fact that undercover agents continue to sneak dummy weapons through airport security points to a need for better training of screeners and highlights the problems of a system in a difficult transition, Transportation Department officials acknowledged Monday. "We are making sure that what we learn from these tests becomes incorporated into our training," said Mari K. Eder, a spokeswoman for the new Transportation Security Administration.

With bogus police badges in hand, the infiltrators set to work. From one guarded federal facility to the next, the undercover agents wandered hallways almost at will, fooling guards and making their way near the offices of Atty. Gen. Janet Reno and other senior officials. "We're friends of Janet's from Miami. We just wanted to say hello," an agent posing as a plainclothes police officer told a secretary outside Reno's door.

An Agoura Hills man wanted on suspicion of attempted murder was arrested in Thousand Oaks on Thursday after an undercover sheriff's deputy spotted him and called for assistance, authorities said. Nedric Miller, 20, has been wanted by the Los Angeles Police Department since April 4 when he and two friends allegedly broke into a west San Fernando Valley home and stabbed and fought with the residents, said LAPD Det. Bob Howe of the West Valley Division. An undercover agent with the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department spotted Miller and a friend driving in Thousand Oaks and called the Ventura County Sheriff's Department for assistance.

Taking the stand in his own defense, former Internet executive Patrick Naughton testified Thursday that he never intended to have sex with a minor and that his steamy online encounters with an undercover FBI agent posing as a teenage girl were part of a fantasy life he pursued to escape emotional problems and mounting pressures at work. During more than three hours of testimony in U.S.

After eight days of deliberations, jurors in the murder trial of a Yorba Linda teen police informant announced Friday they cannot decide on a punishment for his killers, prompting a judge to declare a mistrial in the case's penalty phase. Prosecutors were seeking the death penalty against the two men and one woman whom the jury last month convicted of torturing and killing Chad MacDonald because he worked as a drug informant for the Brea Police Department.

A USC student pleaded guilty Monday in Los Angeles federal court to selling 11,200 doses of LSD to undercover narcotics agents. Hugh "Scottie" McLetchie, 21, the grandson of a federal appeals court judge, faces a minimum of 10 years in prison and a maximum of 90 years for drug trafficking and conspiracy. He is scheduled to be sentenced on Jan. 10.

A central Illinois gun dealer who allegedly sold a white supremacist the two weapons used in a deadly Fourth of July weekend shooting spree was charged Wednesday with selling firearms illegally. Federal officials said 64-year-old Donald R. Fiessinger of Pekin, Ill., sold the two pistols to Benjamin Nathaniel Smith, 21, in late June after a licensed gun dealer refused to sell to him.

A synagogue official deported from Canada after mailing child pornography to an undercover FBI agent in Southern California was sentenced in Los Angeles Monday to 15 months in federal prison. Stuart Friedman, who served as the cantor of a synagogue in Canada, also must undergo three years of supervised release after finishing his prison term, U.S. District Judge Carlos R. Moreno said.