By Steve Neavling
ticklethewire.com
The FBI informant who spent four years working undercover to gather information on one of the eventual suspects in the Garland, Texas, shooting recounted his experience with ABC 15.
“I was kind of a little nervous,” Dalba Deng, who was a paid informant working on a 2010 case involving one of the suspected shooters, said.
Deng worked undercover for four years to help the FBI build a case against Elton Simpson.
Deng said he posed as someone who wanted to learn more about Islam.
His goal was to save lives, he said.
“I did it from my heart,” he said. “I was trying to help because they were trying to kill some people.”
The undercover work provided the feds with hundreds of hours of recorded conversation with Simpson, but it ultimately wasn’t enough to convict Simpson.
