AMERICAN AUTHORITIES successfully flipped someone to provide information that identified RMCP member CameronOrtis. Mercedes Stephenson @MercedesGlobal More details on what Global News has learned regarding the Cameron Ortis investigation. As previously reported, American authorities successfully flipped someone to provide information that identified Ortis. Source says this person was & remains in US custody #natsec #cdnnatsec 2:44 PM - 14 Sep 2019 https://twitter.com/MercedesGlobal/status/1172989513632813056 The person who flipped is facing a serious criminal conviction. In a bid to reduce their time behind bars at sentencing the person revealed they had been contacted by someone in the RCMP in 2015. https://twitter.com/MercedesGlobal/status/1172990228195401728 This individual said the person contacting them from the RCMP offered to sell criminal information that the police had regarding the individual in question.  https://twitter.com/MercedesGlobal/status/1172990489634770949 Person who is in US custody did not buy the information offered by the RCMP contact. This individual is facing criminal conviction and worked heavily around criminal syndicates. This person not a state actor or being offered state related intel. https://twitter.com/MercedesGlobal/status/1172995717511766016 US called the RCMP who launched an investigation looking at anyone who would have had access to that specific info. They narrowed the field, Ortis had some key flags. Cdn investigators found significant amounts of highly sensitive info when they arrested him https://twitter.com/MercedesGlobal/status/1172996568275984387 RCMP were initially working from a list of a number of suspects who work for the Force before they settled on Ortis over an in depth investigation. https://twitter.com/MercedesGlobal/status/1172996942651101186 Nat sec source: authorities believe Ortis was a "broker of information" so unknown # of potential recipients, one that was allegedly criminal info. Different than some past major nat sec leaks that were going to a single state actor like Russia. https://twitter.com/MercedesGlobal/status/1172999614447988742