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• In order to gain the trust of a drugs dealer, undercover cop Robert has to pretend to be Leni’s lover.
  — Leo Barraclough, Variety, 14 Feb. 2023
• And from that point on, Tony Conte, the undercover agent, got a remote starter for his car.
  — Journal Sentinel, 1 Mar. 2024
• Court records show that at least some of these arrests were done through undercover stings.
  — Miguel Torres, The Arizona Republic, 26 Feb. 2023
• The blue Charger lost control and struck the undercover car, and all passengers of the blue charger ran, the report said.
  — Andrea May Sahouri, Detroit Free Press, 1 Sep. 2023
• Over the last two months, undercover agents posing as contract killers meet with Chowdhury to plan the murder.
  — Peter Charalambous, ABC News, 19 Jan. 2023
• For the undercover moment, the Friends alumna wears an ankle-length chunky gray sweater, black pants, and a distressed brown hat along with her shades.
  — Tracey Harrington McCoy, Peoplemag, 15 May 2023
• The undercover cops alerted Stefanovic, who followed the kid to a bathroom.
  — Maggie Prosser, Dallas News, 14 Sep. 2023
• The charges detail how an undercover FBI agent posed as a buyer for such access.
  — Kevin Collier, NBC News, 15 Mar. 2023
• But the relative sold heroin to undercover agents and ended up in his own prison cell.
  — Beth Warren, The Courier-Journal, 30 Jan. 2023
• The undercover celebrity who received the fewest votes would be eliminated and the other two would face off in the Battle Royale.
  — Dana Rose Falcone, Peoplemag, 7 Dec. 2023
• The Wagoneer drove away, but not for long — undercover officers swarmed it a short time later.
  — Dan Morse, Washington Post, 24 Mar. 2024
• Some could disclose such things as the names of U.S. undercover spies and covert operations.
  — Josh Meyer, USA TODAY, 19 Jan. 2023
• Over the course of several meetings described in the complaint, Chowdhury and the undercover agents haggled over their deal.
  — Daniel Wu, Washington Post, 23 Jan. 2023
• But why did the lead case agent vanish from the case after a key undercover operation in Las Vegas?
  — Los Angeles Times Staff, Los Angeles Times, 26 Dec. 2023
• But when the undercover agent asked for more detail, Lemley demurred.
  — James Verini, New York Times, 8 Feb. 2023
• Thompson was caught up in an undercover sting by the FBI’s Milwaukee office.
  — Meredith Colias-Pete, Chicago Tribune, 8 Feb. 2023
• That's when Russell allegedly turned to her colleagues for help, and one of them put her in touch with an undercover FBI agent purporting to be a hitman.
  — Audrey Conklin, Fox News, 11 Mar. 2024
• In the season three plot, Reacher will go undercover to rescue an informant held by a haunting foe from his past.
  — Demetrius Patterson, The Hollywood Reporter, 25 Jan. 2024
• The agent acknowledged there were no undercover recordings, no text messages and no emails with Arencibia’s name on them.
  — Jay Weaver, Miami Herald, 7 Feb. 2024
• During the sting, an undercover FBI agent wearing a recording device approached her claiming to be the brother of one of the suspects and demanded $5,000.
  — Alison Lynn, ABC News, 10 Nov. 2023
• Since containers can easily be placed and moved undercover when the first frosts arrive.
  — Elizabeth Waddington, Treehugger, 6 July 2023
• The guns were purchased by an undercover police office pretending to be a drug dealer.
  — Russ Bynum, CBS News, 11 Jan. 2023
• There is a brief, early scene in which Utah, dipping his toe into his undercover persona, affects a surfer-bro accent, i.e., his own but even drawlier.
  — Jackson Arn, The New Yorker, 1 Feb. 2024
• The hearing itself was high drama, complete with a surprise player: Hazel Huffman, the former mailroom worker for the project, who turned out to be an undercover agent.
  — Adam Hochschild, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 Oct. 2023
• Williams also disputed that Jaggers opened the door of the undercover officer’s vehicle, claiming that Hayden pushed the car door open, knocking him to the ground.
  — Josh Wood, The Courier-Journal, 30 June 2023
• Jason Garrett was the head coach of the Cowboys when Hurd tried to purchase large amounts of cocaine and marijuana from an undercover agent in December 2011.
  — Dallas News, 24 Feb. 2023
• In April, undercover deputies sold 60 pounds of methamphetamine to criminals who made off with the drugs before the Sheriff’s Department could apprehend them.
  — Matthew Ormseth, Los Angeles Times, 5 Oct. 2023
• Imagine a lesser director tackling the tale of two undercover cops on the trail of an international drug lord.
  — Stephen Galloway, The Hollywood Reporter, 8 Aug. 2023
• The movies were both critical and commercial hits and contained an iconic rooftop scene in Hong Kong’s Wanchai district with the police undercover agent and the mobster’s mole facing off guns drawn.
  — Patrick Frater, Variety, 24 Dec. 2023
• In the novel, Reacher goes undercover to rescue an informant held by an enemy from his past.
  — Ethan Shanfeld, Variety, 8 Feb. 2024

Last Updated: 5 May 2024