PHOENIX, July 8 (UPI) -- A U.S. prosecutor shelved a major Arizona corruption case after learning FBI informants allegedly raped an unconscious prostitute in a Las Vegas hotel.
U.S. Attorney Paul Charlton said in a letter that FBI agents did not mention the alleged 2002 rape in official reports, the Arizona Republic said.
The U.S. attorney did not allege that FBI personnel participated in the alleged rape. But Charlton also said the agents didn't advise prosecutors of possible crimes committed in the hotel room.
"Our office will not prosecute any additional cases involving any of these individuals (informants) until the circumstances of the Oct. 16, 2002, incidents in Las Vegas are fully investigated," Charlton said in a March 2004 letter.
Seventy-one U.S. military personnel, prison guards and law-enforcement workers have been convicted in a sting known as Operation Lively Green.
It involved undercover detectives and agents posing as Mexican narcotics traffickers. They bribed government employees to transport cocaine to Phoenix and Las Vegas from southern Arizona, the newspaper says.
