In the 24 hours before a prized federal informant died in a hail of bullets, prosecutors say cell tower data and wifi signals show one man on trial for the murder met with the prosecution’s star witness in a New Orleans East parking lot.
One of them visited a Home Depot on South Claiborne Avenue, according to Federal Bureau of Investigation data presented in New Orleans federal court this week. The other bought a burner phone.
An agent from the FBI’s Cellular Analysis Survey Team, Blake Downing, presented that data in the ongoing murder-conspiracy trial of Sean Alfortish, the accused mastermind of an insurance scheme hinged on crashing passenger vehicles into big-rigs, and Leon “Chunky” Parker, the alleged triggerman in Cornelius Garrison III’s slaying…