Our firm filed a lawsuit against a Lowell police officer and the City of Lowell after the police misused a confidential informant who planted drugs on our client and many others

Today we filed a federal civil lawsuit alleging that the City of Lowell failed to supervise the widespread misuse of confidential informants in the Lowell Police Department. Our client, Jonathan Santiago, was arrested on February 21, 2012, after a confidential informant planted drugs inside the gas cap compartment of Mr. Santiago’s car. The confidential informant had worked closely with Detective Thomas Lafferty, and Lafferty knew that the confidential informant had planted evidence. Our lawsuit alleges that for more than twenty years, the Lowell Police Department allowed police officers in the Special Investigations Section to use informants who were planting evidence on people.

Click here to read our complaint.

Click here to read the article about this case published in the Boston Globe.