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Drug charge beaten, but at high price November 23, 1998 John Gardner was a 33-year-old Pittsburgh postal employee when he was arrested on drug charges in 1989. Gardner had worked for seven years at the post office distribution facility in Warrendale and had won awards for his exemplary service. He was charged after a government informant with an expensive drug habit talked him into buying drugs to help feed the informant’s drug habit. It was all part of a government sting. Two years later, a federal judge dismissed the charges, saying the government had "acted outrageously in inducing the defendant to engage in conduct that led to his prosecution." By that time, Gardner had lost his job and most of his assets fighting the case. No federal agents or prosecutors were punished.
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