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Police staged shakedown to win over Ratte

Undercover police staged a shakedown of a "rogue girlfriend" in a Winnipeg motel room in the process of gaining the confidence of Denis Florian Ratte, the jury into the Prince George man's murder trial was told Tuesday.

Undercover police staged a shakedown of a "rogue girlfriend" in a Winnipeg motel room in the process of gaining the confidence of Denis Florian Ratte, the jury into the Prince George man's murder trial was told Tuesday.

Posing as high-level criminals, they pretended to track the down woman, actually another undercover officer using a fictional name, on the pretext she was causing problems for an associate and used choreographed moves and fake blood to play out a violent scene.

For more, see Wednesday's Citizen