Opinion ID: 3014747
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Heading: The April statements.

Text: After the March 14, 2000 meeting, the FBI began an investigation into the Stewart organization. During that investigation, a different source admitted that she had taken seven trips for Stewart, and that Jacobs had, in fact, taken three trips for him. On April 3, 2000, Stewart and two other female couriers were arrested at the Philadelphia Airport. Coincidentally, on the same day, the FBI “closed” Jacobs as an informant without informing her. The next day (April 4), Sullivan called Jacobs and told her he needed to see her right away.5 Jacobs, along with her five-year-old son, then went to the Wilmington FBI office and entered through the private task force door. Sullivan then had Jacobs and her son wait for approximately thirty minutes in a room where suspects are interviewed, processed, and detained. During this time Sullivan placed two suitcases that had been recovered during Stewart’s arrest on the floor of the “squad bay area” (an open office area in the vicinity of Sullivan’s desk). of this in the record before us. 5 Jacobs points out that Sullivan actually testified that he said that he “need[ed] to see [her] at the office right away.” (Emphasis added.) Further, when she tried to find out why he wanted to see her, Sullivan did not answer the question and instead said, “I will talk to you about it when you get here.” 6 Sullivan next asked Jacobs to leave her son in the interview room and brought her out to the squad bay area, where he told her about the arrests at the airport. Jacobs then saw the suitcases and said, “That’s the cases. See, I told you.” Sullivan then told Jacobs that he had information that she was involved in the conspiracy to transport drugs from Los Angeles to Delaware. She responded that she had only carried money. When Sullivan said that that was not his understanding, Jacobs asked, “[W]ell, how else could I get any information on Bruce [Stewart] for you if I didn’t go?” She went on to say that she had two suitcases she had used during the trips at her residence, and that a drug dog sniff of the suitcases would probably indicate traces of cocaine. Sullivan asked her how many trips to Los Angeles she had taken, and she replied there had been two. Sullivan then confronted Jacobs with other aspects of her prior statements in March that differed from what she had just told him. He next told her to go home and think about what she wanted to do regarding further cooperation with law enforcement. Further, he told her that the FBI wanted the suitcases she had at her residence.6 It is not disputed that at no time did Sullivan (or anyone else) inform Jacobs that the FBI 6 On April 5, 2000, Duffey went to Jacobs’ home and she gave him the suitcases. Also, the FBI was searching at that time for a Robert Shepard. Jacobs told Duffey that she knew the safe house where Shepard was hiding, and she took Duffey there. Jacobs still believed she was a confidential informant during this time. 7 had closed her as an authorized confidential informant, nor was she given any Miranda warnings.