The identity of one of the two confidential informants in the Schaeffer Cox militia case was revealed this week after a judge reduced his sentence on several felony charges, as a reward for his help in bringing about the arrest of Cox and members of his Alaska Peacemakers Militia.Gerald Olson had pleaded guilty to second-degree theft relating to charges that he defrauded customers of a septic tank business, the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner reports. But on Friday, Superior Court Judge Kari Kristiansen mitigated his sentence after his work as a confidential informant in the case against Cox.
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