State Attorney Says Hoffman’s Murder Could Have Been Prevented
May 14th, 2008 by flanewsA State Attorney said the murder of an FSU Graduate turned Police informant could have been prevented. Last week 23 year-old Rachel Hoffman was murdered while working as an informant for the Tallahassee Police Department. Hoffman was in a drug court program for a 2007 drug charge when she was arrested by Tallahassee police in April. Hoffman made a deal with police and became an informant, but the State Attorney’s office was never notified. State Attorney Willie Meggs says since Hoffman was in a drug court program she wouldn’t have been allowed her to buy drugs and a gun in the police sting.
“Had the State known that she had been arrested we would have notified the court. There’s a new arrest and she was in possession of drugs which is in violation of the terms of the contract she has signed with us to be in drug court. She’s to have no contact with criminals. She’s to have no guns,” said Meggs.
Meggs said Hoffman would have been put in jail for her latest arrest and not used in a drug sting. Hoffman violated her drug court contract once before by refusing to take a drug test. The violation bought her three days in jail.
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