The Aide And The Caller

A man worked as a patient-care aide at a drug detox centre. An undercover officer telephoned him again and again over about three weeks, asking for help to buy heroin. He put the officer off. The calls continued. At a later meeting the officer talked with him at length, then asked him to write a note that would let the officer obtain heroin from a patient. Two sales followed. He says the pressure, not any criminal bent of his own, produced the crime.