Police on drug cases puts them in a situation where relapse or deadly overdose Proportions, informants who are users are particularly vulnerable. As law enforcement around the country cracks down But being found out and killed isn’t the only risk for informants While working as a drug informant, is likely the most cited instance of whatĬan go wrong. Of Rachel Hoffman, a young college student murdered in Florida Informant work on people’s lives, but stories like Howlett’s do surface. Of uniform data collection make it hard to assess the true toll of Uncommon, despite assurances from law enforcement. Retaliatory death (which Howlett feared, according to his mother) aren’t
Harmful and violent outcomes, including a violent Working as an informant comes with great risk. Substance-abuse issues-it’s so hard to be around that type of stuff and not do Steering wheel of his parked station wagon, Watson told me. The temptation grew too strong-Howlett relapsed and passed out behind the But one night, after meeting up with some oldįriends in Hopewell, a small, nearby town where Howlett was born and raised, With Watson and had been off drugs for close to six months, regaining some weight and doing well, she said. Stints in rehab, Watson told me.) By the spring of 2018, Howlett was living Over by a car, he became addicted to prescription pain pills. For 13 years, Howlett had struggled with anĪddiction resulting from a traumatic accident he suffered in high school. Watson assumed her son died from a stroke or aneurysm possibly tied When the friendįound her son’s body, he told her it looked like his hands were locked in Later that evening, having run out of reasons why her son wouldn’t orĬouldn’t call or text back, she asked a friend to look for him.
Knowing her son was nervous about it, kept checking in, growing more worried as It was a Monday, and 31-year-old Howlett was starting a new job that day. Virginia, on the morning of July 30, 2018, his mother, Donna Watson, was on vacation. When Troy Howlett collapsed and died in his bedroom in Charles City,
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