Jury To Weight Use of Undercover Agent in School

By Drew Lindsay

The name "Craig Madsen" will not soon be forgotten in Pinedale, Wyo.

That was the alias used by Kevin Carter, a freelance police informant who posed as a student at Pinedale High School in a 1992 state drug investigation.

Although he was 23 at the time, Mr. Carter's boyish looks made it easy for him to blend in with his teenage classmates--perhaps too easy. A Pinedale family has filed a civil suit against Mr. Carter, charging that while he was on assignment at the high school he had sex with a 17-year-old female family member and supplied alcohol...