rolled

Offering information and/or bribing to the police in order to escape jail time.

BURDEN: Trucker went to take a piss. The Harris guy jacked the truck. I think we pulled him over in New Bedford.
SEAN: But Harris walked.
BURDEN: He didn't walk. He rolled. Boston Police's Anti-Gang Unit stepped in to get info on another case. He rolled for them.
WHITEY: On who?
BURDEN: What the fuck was the name? Him and three other guys knocked off the M.B.T.A. counting room. Sixty grand... Jimmy Markum. Kid was like nineteen or twenty. Slick as hell, man. Ran a crew, never got arrested.

-Mystic River by Brian Helgeland. Based on the novel by Dennis Lehane

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