**Angela Valdes**, played by Lela Loren, is a character from the Starz original television drama series *Power*. She was a Latina federal agent whose mission was to solve the mystery behind the infamous "Ghost" until she realized she had been in love with him the entire time.

Angela Valdes was caught in a crossfire and took a bullet for her lover James "Ghost" St. Patrick (Omari Hardwick). She was mistakenly murdered by Tommy Egan (Joseph Sikora) after Egan found out Ghost was working with Valdes to get him arrested for the murder of his father Tony Teresi (William Sadler).

Angela Valdes, Tommy Egan, and James St. Patrick grew up together in Jamaica, Queens and went to the same school where she dated the James St. Patrick. She moved from her hometown to study overseas for 18 years to further her studies which resulted in cutting all ties with St. Patrick until she found her way back to him at night club in New York.

Background story
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Angela Valdes was born and raised in Jamaica, Queens where she met her childhood friends, Tommy Egan and James St. Patrick. They attended to the same school where Angela dated James. She moved from Queens to further her studies and after almost two decades fate led her to her high school lover in New York City. Angela was the younger sister of Paz Valdes (Elizabeth Rodriguez) and the daughter of Nestor Valdes (Jamie Tirelli).

Lela Loren and Omari Hardwick interviewed by *Behind the Velvet Rope TV* about their roles on television series *Power*.

Storyline
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Lela Loren as Angela Valdes.
### Season 1

Angela Valdes got an attorney job in the New York City where Ghost and Tommy opened their night club, Truth. Her main goal was to arrest Filipe Lobos by any means necessary, she had Nomar Arcielo (Vinicius Zorin-Machado) as an informant to get nearly all the locations and dates of the rendezvous the Lobos Cartel and other drug dealers were conducting.

Although she was in love with her then-boyfriend, Greg Knox (Andy Bean), things changed when she met Ghost. However, Ghost was married to Tasha St. Patrick (Naturi Naughton) with three kids (Incl. Tariq St. Patrick, portrayed by Michael Rainey Jr.) but that simply could not stand in the way of the love they shared together.

Valdes thought that since it was almost impossible to arrested Lobos (Enrique Murciano) for drug trafficking, it would be better to get him through his distributors which Normar identified as Ghost after they made him wear a recording device.

While Ghost was more fixated on going legitimate and open a new night club in Miami, Tommy Egan had other plans since their business was secretly being sabotaged by Kanan Stark (Curtis "50 Cent" Jackson) from the inside of his prison cell, Ruiz (Luis Antonio Ramos) was stabbed half to death by Pink Sneakers (portrayed by Leslie Lopez). Pink Sneakers was working for Kanan and her mission was to assassinate Ghost, which she missed at Truth and mistakenly shot Holly Weaver (portrayed by Lucy Waters).

### Season 2

  

Since her source was nowhere to be located, Valdes believed she had been murdered. She contacted James about the problem, and he revealed to her the fictitious identity Holly had used to flee; although Angela had managed to locate her, Holly was useless to her.

While she was still pursuing the lead to indicting Filipe Lobos, she copied James's phone and got intel on everything Ghost was doing. With that being said, the duplicate phone led her to a location where Tommy Egan had a rendezvous set up for exchanging cash and drug, Tommy and Lobos where caught red handed with big bags full of cash and drugs and so they were incarcerated.

James St. Patrick hired Proctor to defend Egan in the court of law but Egan was way in too deep and was looking at a life in prison for being Ghost. However, James did not see that happening as he stole files of hidden and unauthorized evidence from Angela's apartment and handed them to Proctor to burn Angela in court, and just like that Tommy Egan happened to be a free man and Angela was at the depths of losing her job.

Greg Knox has suspicions that James St. Patrick might be the real Ghost, he confronted Valdes with the information he gathered, they tried to build a case against James through the night but Valdes had other plans. 
Valdes focused on the trivial and lost side of what's most important. 
Angela did not picture James in an orange uniform and so she went through and stabbed her ex-lover co-worker in the back to save Ghost by building a case against him for stalking her, therefore Greg was suspended effective immediately.

James went out of his way to make things work with Angela Valdes by cutting ties with contact he was affiliated with (by murdering most of them after he sent Lobos to jail with Tommy), cut off the drug dealing business and was left off with the night clubs which are legitimately active.

Angela continued seeing Ghost even after verifying his identity and everything. Greg also continued stalking Angela and threatened her that she will go down with Ghost.

### Season 3

Valdes outed federal Intel to Ghost that Lobos was still alive after Ghost attempted murder upon Lobos through Lobos's inmates. Agent Greg Knox continued pursuing Angela and Ghost collecting information trying to connect the dots to prove that James St. Patrick is the real Ghost. However, Angela kept protecting the identity of Ghost in order to herself as she was in a relationship with a notorious drug lord.

Angela happened to have a fall out with Ghost concerning their differences of a federal agent seeing a drug distributor, Ghost cut off Angela to sort his problems with Lobos.

When Lobos was being transferred to another facility accompanied by Knox, Tommy Egan and Ghost hijacked the transport, shot Greg Knox in the process and helped Lobos escape from the federal agents only to kill him.

Greg Knox threatened to arrest Ruiz if he does not cooperate or rather accept wearing a recording device around Egan, Ghost and the other dealers, Ruiz accepted but Egan found out that Ruiz had other reasons to murder his connect and for that Egan stabbed Ruiz to death.

Ghost broke into Greg's apartment looking for a tape that Greg has given to Ruiz to record Tommy Egan and James St. Patrick to prove the identity of Ghost to be James St. Patrick but he found nothing but he mistakenly left his fingerprints on the window when he was leaving. 
Greg found a tip that Mike Sandoval (played by David Fumero) was the leak in the investigation of the murder of Filipe Lobos and he was planning to open a case against Mike but Mike had different plans, Mike murdered Greg Knox and planted evidence stating that Greg Knox was the one who revealed the prosecutions classified information. The Lobos case was closed as the leak and suspect were both dead but Angela found the prints on the window and ran them for a match and found out it was Ghost, Angela then went to *Truth*, Ghost was happy to see Angela but unfortunately Angela was there to arrest Ghost for the murder of Greg Knox of which Ghost knew nothing about and did not commit.

### Season 4

Following the apprehension of Ghost by Angela, a lot of evidence against Ghost pointing that he killed Greg was more than enough that the jury was planning to sentence him to death if he was found guilty of killing a federal agent. They found his fingerprints outside the victim's apartment's window and Ghost's DNA under the victim's fingernails. Ghost then attended several court dates with Proctor as his main attorney and Terry Silver (Brandon Victor Dixon) helping Proctor. The prosecution later made an argument that Proctor made a conflict of interest as he previously defended Tommy Egan, therefore he's not allowed to defend Ghost. With that being said, Proctor was removed from the case making Terry Silver the only attorney representing Ghost. Proctor went on in prison to tell Ghost about the sudden change of events. Proctor visited Angela Valdes drunk to tell her that Ghost did not murder agent Knox and that he had a choice to tell on her but he chose not to. After Proctor left, Valdes pulled out the surveillance footage of *Truth* the night agent Knox was murdered and the footage had no evidence of Ghost hiding the murder weapon at his workplace which then made Valdes think Ghost had no hand in Greg Knox's murder thus he did not kill him.

Valdes was called in court to take a stand and answer questions under oath, she said after she watched the tapes she now believes James St. Patrick is not guilty of the murder of the federal agent even if it is at cost of her job, she still believes James is innocent and being framed. The jury dismissed all claims and charges James St. Patrick was facing and he was pronounced a free man as he was exonerated. James thanked Angela for proving his innocence but Angela told him that he may have not done this one, however they both know James is not innocent.

Other websites
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* Lela Loren on IMDb

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