Plot Synopsis

In a sleepy North Dakota town, where the crime rate is so low people often don't lock their front doors, 20-year-old college student Andrew Sadek mysteriously disappears in May 2014 and is found dead almost two months later. What Andrew's friends and family didn't know was that in the months before his death, he had been coerced into becoming an informant for an aggressive police task force that had been secretly operating for years. As details of Andrew's double life are revealed, the cover of the shadowy program is blown, laying bare the collusion and abuse of power of local law enforcement at all levels. Following the Sadek family's fight for the truth about how their son was killed, the film skillfully uncovers the forces at play in his death and reveals why law enforcement secretly waged a war on drugs, on a college campus that didn't have a drug problem. THE DAKOTA ENTRAPMENT TAPES had its world premiere in Ireland as a 90-minute documentary on Thursday, July 9, 2020 at galwayfilmfleadh.com. Three-and-a-half months later, THE DAKOTA ENTRAPMENT TAPES had its U.S. premiere, as SundanceNow released it as a two-part documentary.