Drug defendants released after agent's credibility questioned

Tuesday, June 17, 2003

TULIA, Texas -- After as much as four years behind bars, 12 people sent to prison in a drug bust that brought cries of racism in this Texas Panhandle town were freed Monday by a judge who said they were railroaded by a white undercover agent.

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