ROANOKE TIMES 
                      Copyright (c) 1996, Roanoke Times

DATE: Friday, November 8, 1996               TAG: 9611120001
SECTION: VIRGINIA                 PAGE: A-14 EDITION: METRO 
SERIES: a deal with a killer

A TWO-PART REPORT

Friday: Javier Cruz fled the country after killing a North Carolina man during an argument. When he returned, he went to work for one of the top cocaine traffickers for Colombia's Cali cartel. Then the DEA caught up with him at his Roanoke car dealership - and turned him into an informant.

Saturday: Cruz insists he's turned his life around in the years he's worked for the DEA. Still, the family of the man Cruz killed feels betrayed by the legal system. And legal ethics experts raise questions about the government's conduct in the Cruz case.

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