EX-DRUG INVESTIGATORS ON TRIAL

PROVIDENCE, R. I., - Three former investigators for ex-Attorney

General Jeffrey B. Pine's much heralded Narcotics Strike Force have
gone on trial in Superior Court here, charged with conspiring to
violate the civil rights of several innocent people, by arresting them
for narcotics trafficking. On trial are Michael McGreevey, then a
Bristol, R.I., police officer, assigned to the Strike Force in 1995
and 1996; Ronald House, a former field investigator with the Strike
Force; and Jonathan Cute, a former ``special prosecution
investigator,'' with the Strike Force.

They have all been charged in eight-count
indictments returned by a federal grand jury last year
which alleges thet seven people were falsely arrested on trumped up
marijuana and cocaine charges that were based on false witness
statements and false affidavits. A fourth defendant, Cesar A. Moreno,
an informer/agent for the Strike Force, remains at large, the subject
of a federal arrest warrant.