This is probably why they reeled Ray Epps in.
Now they can say, OH NO! HE WAS NOT AN AGENT! SEE? WE INDICTED HIM!
In The Green Prince, Mossab Hassan Yousef (WTF. It’s a movie now? I just read the book) says that his handlers arrested him from time to time, both to give him street cred, and also to give him instructions.
Among Chassidic dissidents in the former Soviet Union, there used to be a joke: “To be arrested once is a mitzvah. Twice is lamhadrin (for the most strict adherents). Three times, chosheshim leyuhara (we worry that the three-times arrestee is a show off [i.e., an informant]).