Spotlight: Snitch City
Episodes
Introducing Deep Cover: The Truth About Sarah
23 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
If you enjoyed Spotlight: Snitch City, you might be interested in the new season of Deep Cover from Pushkin Industries. Deep Cover: The Truth About Sa...
UPDATE: Case Dismissed
06 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Reporters Dugan Arnett and Andrew Ryan are back in court to learn the fate of a case that has spanned eight years. In 2017, New Bedford police accused...
Introducing The Burden
02 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Today, we’re sharing the first episode of the 2025 Ambie Award-nominated investigative podcast The Burden from our friends at Orbit Media. The Burde...
EPISODE 5: “All this for nothing”
01 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Two former New Bedford informants tell shocking stories. The first: a woman who didn’t even know she was being used as an informant by the cop she w...
EPISODE 4: Cops & Robbers
25 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
When Frank "Rizzo" Simmons was a big-time drug dealer in New Bedford in the '90s, he went toe-to-toe with a drug cop named Paul Oliveira. After a majo...
EPISODE 3: The Chief
18 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Meet New Bedford’s police chief, Paul Oliveira. He’s had a hand in both of the stories we’ve already heard. And the Spotlight Team's reporting s...
EPISODE 2: Blind Trust
11 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Spotlight reporter Dugan Arnett receives a desperate phone call from an informant who’s now in prison. He says he's afraid for his life because othe...
EPISODE 1: Officer Pastillas
11 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
On the docks of New Bedford, Massachusetts, whispers about a rogue police officer harassing fishermen and stealing drugs come to a head aboard a scall...
Trailer
26 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In a nation addicted to drugs, police across the country have become addicted to informants. Nowhere is this more apparent than in one New England por...
Trailer Two
18 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In just a few weeks, the Boston Globe’s new podcast will drop. Informants are the nameless, faceless cogs of the criminal justice system. And their ...
Coming Soon… Snitch City
09 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Confidential informants are the backbone of America’s war on drugs. But the way police use them has remained almost entirely hidden. Until now. Le...