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http://www.sun-sentinel.com/ne...-20170620-story.html

A Broward County elementary school teacher who tried to get revenge against her husband by tipping off drug dealers that they were under investigation should spend the next eight years in federal prison because the consequences of her actions were so serious, prosecutors say.

The undercover investigation was compromised and an insider informant who was secretly working with federal authorities was “outed.” He died of a gunshot wound a short time later under suspicious circumstances that were officially ruled a suicide, prosecutors said.

The defense for Porsha Session, 31, of Boynton Beach, says she acted naively to retaliate against her then-husband — a Lauderhill police detective who was involved in the investigation — because he was cheating on her.

Session told prosecutors she wanted “revenge against her philandering police officer spouse,” according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office. She said she snooped in her now ex-husband’s work email and found memos containing sensitive law enforcement information about the investigation, the suspects and the fact that agents had an informant working inside the group.

Session admitted earlier this year that she made six phone calls to one of the suspected drug dealers and convinced him that an insider was helping law enforcement

Session was a teacher at Cypress Elementary School in Pompano Beach at the time of the crime in March 2013, according to Broward County school district and court records. Authorities said she borrowed a co-worker’s cell phone to make the warning calls, also putting that teacher in potential danger.

Session was arrested in February and remains free on $260,000 bond pending her June 28 sentencing in federal court in West Palm Beach. The maximum punishment is 20 years in federal prison and a fine of $250,000, but the defense is recommending she be sentenced to house arrest.

Prosecutors said Session’s actions were so egregious — and dangerous — that she should receive a much harsher punishment than the 15 to 21 months in prison recommended by sentencing guidelines.

The undercover investigation began in October 2012 and was focused on a “crew” of seven Jamaican-born men suspected of operating a “significant” drug-dealing business in the Lauderhill and Fort Lauderdale areas, prosecutors Jeffrey Kaplan and Paul Schwartz wrote in court records.

Investigators decided it was too dangerous to leave the informant in Broward County, and he and his girlfriend were moved to southern Miami-Dade County.

Two months after Session made her phone calls to the suspects, the informant was dead.

“In May 2013, according to the [informant’s] girlfriend, [he] was visited by someone who his girlfriend did not know. After the person left, the [informant] was found dead pursuant to a gunshot wound. The death was ruled a suicide,” prosecutors wrote.

“There is no evidence that the ‘outing’ of the [informant] directly caused bodily harm to [him]. However, the actions of defendant Session did set off a chain of events that certainly have to be considered as a factor in the death of the [informant], which was ruled a suicide,” they wrote.
 
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Guys:

http://www.sun-sentinel.com/ne...-20150618-story.html

Please read the page carefully. You've linked to a photograph from a different news item
 
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Guys:

http://www.sun-sentinel.com/ne...-20150618-story.html

Please read the page carefully. You've linked to a photograph from a different news item

That Broward County teacher pictured was arrested for conspiring to smuggle in 667 lbs of pot (Not 666?)
But here's the money quote:
"...One of Dozier's lawyers, Lawrence Hashish, told the Sun Sentinel that Whylly, who may be in the Bahamas, has not been arrested yet. Hashish declined to comment further on the case..."



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