Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index In law enforcement a sting operation is an operation designed to catch a person committing a crime. A typical sting will have a law-enforcement officer or cooperative member of the public go along with a criminal's actions (for example by purchasing drugs the criminal is selling) to gather evidence of the criminal's wrongdoing. Law-enforcement may have to be careful not to provoke the crime. In common law jurisdictions, the defendant may invoke the defense of entrapment. See also Operation Pin. This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.