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Informant in 'dirty DUI' case tells his story
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2012/03/11/MNM91NH9MP.DTL
Lea Suzuki / The Chronicle
Carl Marino, an aspiring actor, says he helped his bosses at Concord's Butler & Associates detective agency with their shady schemes for years before he decided to come forward.
In the end, even the people he may put in prison say Carl Marino did the right thing.
They just wonder what took him so long to do it.
Early last year, Marino, a former police officer turned aspiring actor, became a confidential informant for the state Department of Justice and helped expose one of the largest police corruption scandals in Bay Area history.
In a video that capped three weeks of undercover activity at the Concord private detective agency where he worked, Marino filmed two men - his boss, Christopher Butler, and Norman Wielsch, commander of a Contra Costa County antidrug task force - as they sold him methamphetamine that authorities say Wielsch stole from police evidence lockers.
Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2012/03/10/BAM91NH9MP.DTL#ixzz1ooqu6TbZ
