Virginia: Hampton Ofc. DeAngelo Freeman admits giving confid. informant’s name to drug conspirator

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Former Hampton police officer admits giving confidential informant’s name to drug conspirator

A former Hampton police detective admitted on Wednesday that he revealed a confidential informant’s identity to a key target of a federal drug dealing investigation two years ago. DeAngelo Freeman, 31, of Hampton, was charged in late 2017 with attempted witness tampering after prosecutors said he gave conspirators the name of a man cooperating with the FBI in an investigation into a cocaine dealing ring centered at a fitness center at the Peninsula Town Center. While Freeman was on the Hampton police’s special investigations unit earlier that year, court documents say, he was part of an FBI-led team that was ...

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