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Miami River Cops: Inside the Largest Police Corruption Case The FBI Files · FBI Files

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  Speaker 1: Three mysterious deaths in a river in Florida confuse the
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  Speaker 1: local authorities.
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  Speaker 2: A first investigation only brings little.
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  Speaker 3: To light.
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  Speaker 1: But as the police and FBI discover an unhealthy connection
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  Speaker 1: to international drug smuggling, they uncover a conspiracy of unscathed
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  Speaker 1: greed and reckless violence.
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  Speaker 2: It is a case that brings a whole city into chaos.
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  Speaker 4: In the 1980s, thousands of violent criminals flowed from Cuba
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  Speaker 4: and Colombia to America. Drugs flooded South Florida, and the
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  Speaker 4: area filled with illegal wealth became a powder keg of violence.
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  Speaker 5: I'm Jim Kallstrom, former head of the New York FBI.
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  Speaker 4: In the bloody drug wars of Miami, the winners were rich,
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  Speaker 4: the losers buried, and everyone had a goal.
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  Speaker 2: Colombia, South America. Life was tough until the 1970s. Then
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  Speaker 2: a failed economy made room for a strong increase in
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  Speaker 2: drug trade.
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  Speaker 1: Drug trade led to a tough competition that literally tore.
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  Speaker 2: The country apart.
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  Speaker 1: Scrupulous Colombian drug bosses began to put their business together
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  Speaker 1: in partnerships that were known.
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  Speaker 2: As cartels. The death came over everyone who stood in
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  Speaker 2: their way.
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  Speaker 1: With the growing influence of the cartel, the appetite of
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  Speaker 1: the Americans also grew on illegal drugs. And Miami became
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  Speaker 1: the most important destination for most of the cocaine smuggled
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  Speaker 1: into the country.
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  Speaker 2: And with it, the blood was poured.
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  Speaker 1: Colombian missionaries were sent to Miami to eliminate the local competition.
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  Speaker 1: The murder rate rose to more than three times the
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  Speaker 1: national average for large cities.
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  Speaker 2: Miami was declared the murder capital of the USA.
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  Speaker 1: The former murder commissioner of Metro Dade, Alex Alvarez, remembers
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  Speaker 1: how in 1979 violence broke out in a shopping center
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  Speaker 1: in Miami.
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  Speaker 2: His birthdate is.
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  Speaker 6: Several drug dealers bought a truck, equipped it with bulletproof
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  Speaker 6: vests and bull eyes and conducted a drug murder on
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  Speaker 6: the parking lot, through which they fired hundreds and hundreds
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  Speaker 6: of bullets to kill their intended target.
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  Speaker 5: To kill their intended target.
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  Speaker 1: Two notorious drug dealers were killed and several innocent passers-by injured.
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  Speaker 6: There were also incidents of pursuit hunts at high speed
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  Speaker 6: on the highway between two drug dealers who were shooting
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  Speaker 6: each other while on.
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  Speaker 5: The road. Many people were injured and killed.
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  Speaker 6: It was like in the Wild West and it was
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  Speaker 6: necessary to stop these drug dealers who were out of control.
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  Speaker 5: A special unit was formed to get rid of the violence.
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  Speaker 1: The Central Tactical Unit, or CENTAC-26, had its headquarters in
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  Speaker 1: the Metro-Dade Police Department. Sergeant George Pascencia was a detective
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  Speaker 1: assigned to this unit.
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  Speaker 2: It was the first of its kind in Miami. I
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  Speaker 2: was the 26th.
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  Speaker 6: The purpose of this task force was to monitor all
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  Speaker 6: murder cases in the district and to get the people
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  Speaker 6: we assumed were big drug dealers involved, to pursue the
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  Speaker 6: murder attempt and to destroy the organization? In the middle
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  Speaker 6: of 1980, the constant pressure of the prosecution authorities slowly
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  Speaker 6: changed the way drug dealers did their business.
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  Speaker 2: They became a little more refined. They still committed murders,
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  Speaker 2: but no more shootings in public.
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  Speaker 6: Drug dealers went deep into the underground and organized cells
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  Speaker 6: that excluded everyone.
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  Speaker 1: Except family and close friends. Many cells specialized in activities.
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  Speaker 2: Such as transport and the distribution of cocaine or money laundering.
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  Speaker 1: In just a few years, the business had grown and
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  Speaker 1: expanded and was still very dangerous.
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  Speaker 2: On the afternoon of July 29, 1985.
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  Speaker 1: A mining worker who worked on the Miami River noticed something.
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  Speaker 1: In front of the bow of his boat, a corpse
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  Speaker 1: was floating.
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  Speaker 2: In the water.
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  Speaker 6: When the Metro-Dade County police arrived, port workers had already
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  Speaker 6: pulled two.
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  Speaker 2: More corpses out of the river. The court doctor examined
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  Speaker 2: the dead for signs of injuries or wounds. He found none.
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  Speaker 2: It seemed as if the three were drowned.
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  Speaker 1: On the corpses were found the PIPAs, Rolex watches and
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  Speaker 1: a lot.
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  Speaker 2: Of cash. Two were armed.
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  Speaker 6: Basically, they all carried the utensils of a drug smuggler.
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  Speaker 6: The police of Metrodade called CENTAC 26.
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  Speaker 2: Count.
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  Speaker 1: Sergeant Placencia investigated.
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  Speaker 5: How many people are there?
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  Speaker 6: We began to investigate the area to find out if
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  Speaker 6: anyone had seen anything suspicious, if anyone had seen this
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  Speaker 6: person before their death and that did not appear to
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  Speaker 6: be very suspicious at all.
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  Speaker 2: No one saw it.
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  Speaker 1: The three victims were identified as local Cuba Americans. Two
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  Speaker 1: were fined by the police.
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  Speaker 2: The official cause of death was drowning.
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  Speaker 1: However, there was no indication of how or why they
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  Speaker 1: had gotten into the water. Detective Alex Alvarez looked for
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  Speaker 1: a trace in the case.
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  Speaker 6: We began to check the documents and contacted the Drug
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  Speaker 6: Defense Agency to find out if these people were known
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  Speaker 6: as drug dealers.
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  Speaker 3: Who.
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  Speaker 1: Agents of the DEA did not know the men. But
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  Speaker 1: they had a source that could help.
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  Speaker 5: What is the address? They had an informant.
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  Speaker 6: And this informant knew the son of one of the
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  Speaker 6: dead people who were fished from the rivers of Miami.
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  Speaker 6: And it was definitely in connection with drugs. And he
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  Speaker 6: wanted to get us in touch with.
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  Speaker 2: The son of Kayak. This afternoon, the investigators arranged a
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  Speaker 2: visit to the son.
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  Speaker 1: He was ready to tell what he knew, in the
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  Speaker 1: hope that the secret about his father's death could be solved.
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  Speaker 5: Can you tell us what you know and how you
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  Speaker 5: learned about it?
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  Speaker 2: I know it's a big deal.
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  Speaker 5: It brings thousands of.
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  Speaker 6: He told us that his father was one of the
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  Speaker 6: largest drug smugglers in South Florida. He smuggled thousands and
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  Speaker 6: thousands of pounds of cocaine.
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  Speaker 2: I know that last Saturday he would smuggle drugs.
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  Speaker 1: Into ships with steel roofs with the crew of his father.
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  Speaker 1: because the old boats arouse less.
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  Speaker 2: Suspicion than big yachts.
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  Speaker 1: He also described how the smugglers put in the boats
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  Speaker 1: false shadows and so hid compartments with hundreds and sometimes
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  Speaker 1: thousands of cocaine.
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  Speaker 2: When the customs searched.
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  Speaker 1: These boats, their only hope was to find drugs, to
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  Speaker 1: use a sweat burner in it.
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  Speaker 6: The smugglers are clever, They know that the customs on
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  Speaker 6: the open sea would never set a boat on fire,
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  Speaker 6: because if he got lost, he would sink it. After
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  Speaker 6: they had safely passed the customs, the smugglers transported.
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  Speaker 2: Their huge freighter to the Miami River.
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  Speaker 6: They set up a yacht port and left the drugs
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  Speaker 6: there for two or three days to make sure that
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  Speaker 6: they were not monitored. And on the second, third or
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  Speaker 6: fourth day, when they were convinced that there was no surveillance,
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  Speaker 6: In the middle of the night, they came.
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  Speaker 5: And took the drugs in the truck and brought them
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  Speaker 5: to various.
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  Speaker 2: Places in South Florida.
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  Speaker 1: The son said he had been visited by two friends
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  Speaker 1: of his father, who were on board the ship in
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  Speaker 1: the night when his father drank. They told him that
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  Speaker 1: the boat was attacked by a group of armed policemen
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  Speaker 1: disguised as policemen.
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  Speaker 2: So your father?
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  Speaker 1: The robbers threw the six-headed crew overboard and stole about
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  Speaker 1: 450 kilos of cocaine.
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  Speaker 6: The son named the names of all three men who
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  Speaker 6: survived and said, And that's not.
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  Speaker 2: The street value.
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  Speaker 6: The street value is probably two or three times as high.
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  Speaker 1: The son called the names of all three men who
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  Speaker 1: had survived, but said he didn't know how he could contact.
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  Speaker 2: Them. The investigators from Sintag.
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  Speaker 1: Had to find out whether there was a legitimate rat
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  Speaker 1: in the Navy. They contacted all criminal prosecution agencies in
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  Speaker 1: South Florida dealing with drug crimes.
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  Speaker 6: None of them had a residence near the brothel where
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  Speaker 6: this incident took place. So when I concluded at this
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  Speaker 6: point that it was a legitimate raid, my next focus
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  Speaker 6: was that these people must have.
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  Speaker 5: Been false policemen.
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  Speaker 6: People who gave themselves out as policemen, because at that
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  Speaker 6: time there was a trend to disguise themselves as policemen
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  Speaker 6: and to rob houses of drug dealers to steal money
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  Speaker 6: and drugs from them.
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  Speaker 1: In order to check the victim's son's story, the investigators
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  Speaker 1: went to the yacht port where the raid took place.
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  Speaker 1: They asked the guard who was on duty that night.
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  Speaker 1: He said that seven or eight men stormed a police
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  Speaker 1: uniform to the yacht port and attacked one of the boats.
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  Speaker 6: You went directly to the guard. The guard said, since
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  Speaker 6: we are in South Florida, nothing unusual.
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  Speaker 2: Do you know? He had not seen any of them properly. Later,
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  Speaker 2: the investigators searched the boat, but found no clues.
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  Speaker 1: So they focused their attention on the search.
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  Speaker 2: For the three men who had survived the raid.
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  Speaker 1: Two of the three survivors were previously punished by the police,
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  Speaker 1: but could not be done.
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  Speaker 2: In detail under their last known address. Am nächsten Tag
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  Speaker 2: folgten die Ermittler von Sentag 26 einem Verdacht.
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  Speaker 1: Sie nahmen an, dass die Überlebenden wahrscheinlich zur Totenwache für
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  Speaker 1: eines der verstorbenen Opfer gehen würden.
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  Speaker 6: Also tauchten wir mit den Namen und Identitäten der Personen.
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  Speaker 6: Nach denen gesucht wurde im Bestattungsinstitut auf.
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  Speaker 2: Die Ermittler hatten Recht.
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  Speaker 1: Sie erkannten die Überlebenden von den Fotos der Verhaftung und
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  Speaker 1: näherten sich den Männern, als diese eintraten.
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  Speaker 2: The men confirmed that the.
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  Speaker 1: Boat had been robbed by a group of robbers who
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  Speaker 1: were dressed like policemen. But the men argued that the
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  Speaker 1: boat was involved in drug trafficking. They claimed that they
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  Speaker 1: had just had a party.
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  Speaker 6: They had drunk with the three victims and two other
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  Speaker 6: friends of mine. And while they were there, drinking beer
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  Speaker 6: and having fun, people died in blue uniforms past the
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  Speaker 6: main gate of the yacht port and started screaming,'' Police! Police!
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  Speaker 2: Police!'' The armed men began to attack them.
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  Speaker 6: They said that several friends were thrown into the water
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  Speaker 6: by these people dressed in blue uniforms. Within minutes all
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  Speaker 6: six men were on board the Miami River.
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  Speaker 2: But only three swam safely. The investigations have now turned
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  Speaker 2: into a triple murder.
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  Speaker 6: All of.
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  Speaker 1: Them. The investigators from Centax 66 were convinced that the
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  Speaker 1: raid was another case of false police officers who had
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  Speaker 1: hit the drug dealers in the ear. But the survivors
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  Speaker 1: denied again that drugs were on the boat and insisted
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  Speaker 1: on not knowing why the men had attacked them. They
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  Speaker 1: said they had not seen any service numbers or police
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  Speaker 1: cars and could not even recognize from which department the
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  Speaker 1: uniforms came from. Without detailed information from the two witnesses,
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  Speaker 1: the investigators remained without any.
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  Speaker 2: Notable clues.
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  Speaker 1: When the case was on the rise, the FBI offered
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  Speaker 1: its support.
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  Speaker 2: Special Agent Robert Martin.
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  Speaker 6: Approximately at the same time as the investigations on the
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  Speaker 6: three bodies found in the Miami River began, we were
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  Speaker 6: introduced to the FBI. We got some information about a
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  Speaker 6: group of policemen who were involved in some frauds by
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  Speaker 6: a guy. And he identified who those guys were, at
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  Speaker 6: least some of them, knew some of them and conducted
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  Speaker 6: conversations with them. Detective Alvarez received an unexpected call from
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  Speaker 6: an agent of the espionage defense. He said he had
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  Speaker 6: to meet with us because he had a motive and
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  Speaker 6: possibly information about our case.
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  Speaker 5: He calculates one and one together, so maybe that's connected
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  Speaker 5: to the information.
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  Speaker 6: The FBI agent said he was a well-connected nightclub employee
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  Speaker 6: who knew of a.
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  Speaker 1: Group of corrupt policemen who had cheated the drug dealer
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  Speaker 1: Miami River. The detectives from Centax 26 were looking for
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  Speaker 1: Armando Unau.
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  Speaker 2: But he didn't want to see her.
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  Speaker 1: The interview was a waste of time. It took the
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  Speaker 1: murder of a friend until Armando would talk. A car
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  Speaker 1: driver drove through the Everglades. He discovered something that aroused
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  Speaker 1: his curiosity.
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  Speaker 2: A wooden box. He held on. To his astonishment, he
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  Speaker 2: found a corpse in it. He called the police.
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  Speaker 1: Detectives of the Miami-Dade drug trafficking group on day 26
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  Speaker 1: found the dead of three men who had been found
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  Speaker 1: driving in the Miami River.
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  Speaker 6: They hoped that an informant named Armando could help them.
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  Speaker 6: His friend and employer were found murdered in the Everglades
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  Speaker 6: in Florida.
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  Speaker 1: His name was Luis Rodriguez, the owner of a nightclub
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  Speaker 1: in Miami's Little Havana district.
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  Speaker 2: He was.
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  Speaker 6: Shot several times in the head and then stopped in
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  Speaker 6: a box that was so prepared that he could jump up.
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  Speaker 2: A terrible sight.
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  Speaker 1: Detective Alex Alvarez and Sergeant George Plasencia investigated for Syntec-76.
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  Speaker 1: They had to bring Armando Uhn to talk.
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  Speaker 2: We never have something.
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  Speaker 5: Of three corpses. Our trick.
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  Speaker 6: When we spoke to him was that we were investigating
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  Speaker 6: the murder of his best friend in the death of
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  Speaker 6: his best friend.
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  Speaker 1: According to Detective Plasencia, Armando Uhn was very open.
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  Speaker 5: We sat down and talked for a while about Luis Rodriguez.
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  Speaker 6: And he said, yes, Luis Rodriguez was involved in drug trafficking.
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  Speaker 1: He admitted that Rodriguez was dealing with drugs in his
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  Speaker 1: nightclub and said, he thought the men with whom Rodriguez
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  Speaker 1: was dealing with had killed him.
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  Speaker 2: Is it true that he was dealing with drugs? He
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  Speaker 2: was angry that his friend was warned and said he
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  Speaker 2: wanted to help. He lost money for everything.
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  Speaker 1: But whether he knew from police officers whether real or
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  Speaker 1: fake the drug dealers.
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  Speaker 2: Were stealing, he did not say.
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  Speaker 6: He never mentioned that the police officers were involved. He said, however,
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  Speaker 6: that Luis Rodriguez was friends with some officers.
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  Speaker 1: Armando acted cautiously and chose his words with caution. When
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  Speaker 1: the interview ended, the detectives still had no suspects in
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  Speaker 1: the murders at the Miami River. Everything they really knew
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  Speaker 1: was that Luis Rodriguez was dead and maybe the fourth
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  Speaker 1: victim of a drug murder in just a few days.
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  Speaker 1: Then a detective contacted the city of Miami Plasencia and
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  Speaker 1: Alvarez with a surprising note. He said Luis Rodriguez also
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  Speaker 1: worked as a police chief for him.
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  Speaker 6: He told us that Luis Rodriguez gave him information about
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  Speaker 6: people who were disguised as cheaters and cheated on drug
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  Speaker 6: dealers and committed the Dead County murder.
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  Speaker 1: The detective explained that he had met Luis Rodriguez about
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  Speaker 1: a striped police officer from Miami named Marco Ribera.
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  Speaker 2: I said, we need your help now.
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  Speaker 6: You have to arrange a meeting between the striped police
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  Speaker 6: officer and George and me.
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  Speaker 5: And let's tell him that we will investigate Luis Rodriguez
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  Speaker 5: in the murder case. Das wäre unsere Taten.
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  Speaker 1: Das Treffen war für diese Nacht im Miami Police Department angesetzt.
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  Speaker 1: Officer Rivera arbeitete in der Spätschicht im Sektor 60, Polizeikennzahl.
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  Speaker 2: Für Little Havana.
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  Speaker 1: Er bestätigte, dass er Luis Rodriguez kannte und dass Rodriguez
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  Speaker 1: gelegentlich sein Informant gewesen sei. Dann sprach er jedoch ohne
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  Speaker 1: Aufforderung die Ertrinkungsfälle Miami River an.
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  Speaker 6: He voluntarily gave some information about the three dead bodies
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  Speaker 6: in the Miami River.
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  Speaker 5: And he said that.
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  Speaker 6: These guys stole the drugs themselves. And when the owner
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  Speaker 6: of the drugs found out, he had them murdered. Or
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  Speaker 6: thrown them into the water and drowned himself. That no
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  Speaker 6: police officers were involved at all. His denial that police officers.
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  Speaker 2: Were involved, which no one mentioned, seemed too obvious.
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  Speaker 5: We asked this bunch of cops.
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  Speaker 1: To repeat a story at the end of our meeting.
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  Speaker 1: And we found out that the story didn't fit the first.
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  Speaker 2: Story he told us. He told us something was wrong.
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  Speaker 1: Prevera claimed a source from the street had told him
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  Speaker 1: about the rat. So the investigators asked him to talk
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  Speaker 1: directly to his source.
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  Speaker 5: Yes, you can call me.
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  Speaker 2: We'll try to reach him.
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  Speaker 5: If I can't reach him, let me know.
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  Speaker 1: For the investigators of Syntec, the case had taken a
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  Speaker 1: dramatic turn. This officer, who had sworn to keep the law,
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  Speaker 1: seemed to hide something. The next day, Officer Marco Rivera
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  Speaker 1: presented the source to the detectives, who allegedly had information
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  Speaker 1: about the murder at the Miami River.
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  Speaker 6: I don't know if she should talk to you at all.
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  Speaker 5: I don't know either, bro.
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  Speaker 1: Rivera claimed his source could confirm that the drug dealers
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  Speaker 1: from Colombia had carried out the raid and not the
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  Speaker 1: police from Miami.
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  Speaker 2: Hey, listen to us, man.
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  Speaker 5: Hey, we understand that.
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  Speaker 1: But while the source spoke, he had difficulties remembering the
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  Speaker 1: details of his story.
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  Speaker 2: I want the story to be as fair as possible.
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  Speaker 2: According to Detective Alvarez, Ribera had to help him remember.
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  Speaker 5: The officer has to correct him again and again. No, no, no,
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  Speaker 5: that's how it happened. And tell him that.
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  Speaker 6: And he fills the gaps for this guy, who was
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  Speaker 6: obviously coached and prepared for what he was supposed to say.
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  Speaker 5: So at this point we.
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  Speaker 6: Knew that he had obviously touched something that Touching by
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  Speaker 6: Officer Rapp meant a more serious problem for the detectives.
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  Speaker 6: If the deadly attacks were actually about police officers from Miami,
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  Speaker 6: you had to be very careful.
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  Speaker 2: You had to.
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  Speaker 6: This is a problem for whose investigation we were not
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  Speaker 6: really trained or specialized. Because we are not investigators for
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  Speaker 6: internal affairs.
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  Speaker 5: Who doesn't? Not against police officers. That wasn't our role.
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  Speaker 5: That wasn't our job.
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  Speaker 3: But.
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  Speaker 5: We were commissioned to investigate this murder.
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  Speaker 6: And if these murders were committed by police officers, then
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  Speaker 6: it was okay. It became clear to us that we
• 22:08
  Speaker 6: had to do things differently when we started investigating police officers.
• 22:14
  Speaker 2: The detectives from CENTAC 26 had to secure themselves.
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: They asked the police chief to keep their personnel files
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: as a precautionary measure against internal acts.
• 22:26
  Speaker 2: We did a lot.
• 22:29
  Speaker 5: To protect our identity and the identity of our families.
• 22:34
  Speaker 6: We deleted everything that was entered on our names from
• 22:37
  Speaker 6: our names, so that they could not understand where we
• 22:40
  Speaker 6: lived and who we were. You know, we'll find out
• 22:43
  Speaker 6: who we are. So we immediately built a wall between
• 22:46
  Speaker 6: you and us. When they felt safe, the.
• 22:47
  Speaker 1: CENTAC investigators began investigating the officers who worked in the
• 22:53
  Speaker 1: night shift in Sector 60 in Little Havana.
• 22:57
  Speaker 2: Officer Marco Rivera was responsible.
• 23:03
  Speaker 1: With the permission of the police chief, the department for
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: internal affairs of Miami-Sanctuary 66 and 66 gave the personnel
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: files of the questionable officers.
• 23:12
  Speaker 6: The department for internal affairs of the city of Miami
• 23:15
  Speaker 6: was very cooperative. They gave the names that we gave them,
• 23:21
  Speaker 6: did research, and shared with us the background of this person.
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: The investigators focused on a group of eight detectives who
• 23:33
  Speaker 1: had all only recently been in touch with the police
• 23:35
  Speaker 1: when Miami was.
• 23:40
  Speaker 2: In crisis.
• 23:41
  Speaker 1: In the spring of 1980, the Cuban president, Fidel Castro
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: announced that he would give thousands of political refugees the
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: opportunity to seek asylum abroad.
• 23:47
  Speaker 2: The USA agreed to take 3,500.
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: Then Castro announced, surprisingly, that for the first time in
• 23:58
  Speaker 1: years he would allow American boats to enter the port
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: of Marielle? The result was the so-called Marielle Boat Crisis.
• 24:12
  Speaker 1: More than 120,000 Cuban refugees flowed to South Florida and
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: overwhelmed Miami's recording capacity. Most of them were hard-working immigrants
• 24:22
  Speaker 1: who were looking for a chance at the American dream.
• 24:27
  Speaker 2: But most of.
• 24:29
  Speaker 5: Them didn't.
• 24:30
  Speaker 6: Approximately 10% of them were criminals who had been released
• 24:33
  Speaker 6: from Fidel Castro's prison system.
• 24:37
  Speaker 5: In order to curb the rising crime rate.
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: The city had to hire over 400 new cadets within
• 24:42
  Speaker 1: three years. Instead of hiring the best candidates, they hired
• 24:44
  Speaker 1: everyone who was half acceptable at the time.
• 24:54
  Speaker 6: They just couldn't find enough qualified candidates and they chose
• 24:58
  Speaker 6: quantity over quality.
• 24:59
  Speaker 5: CENTAC 26 began.
• 25:00
  Speaker 1: With surveillance and observed how the affected gangs hung up
• 25:08
  Speaker 1: after the party and a life partner who went far
• 25:11
  Speaker 1: beyond the possibilities of honest policemen. Marco Rivero was the
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: provisional leader. Amando Garcia recently became a member of a
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: bodybuilding studio.
• 25:28
  Speaker 2: Osvaldo Coelho had just left the police service. He was
• 25:33
  Speaker 2: 30 years old and had a $ 100, 000 Lotus.
• 25:34
  Speaker 1: His wasteful expenses were easy to track. An official bought
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: a house, built a pool and.
• 25:42
  Speaker 2: Paid the builder cash.
• 25:54
  Speaker 6: He showed up with a bag full of cash and
• 25:55
  Speaker 6: gave it to him for the purchase of my house.
• 25:57
  Speaker 2: Nevertheless, the detectives had only a few solid evidence.
• 26:05
  Speaker 5: Yes, I'm in front of the restaurant. I don't see
• 26:07
  Speaker 5: any MRK units here.
• 26:10
  Speaker 6: Our boy is definitely over here and is drinking a
• 26:12
  Speaker 6: coffee with a few friends outside.
• 26:13
  Speaker 5: But I don't see any units.
• 26:17
  Speaker 2: They needed information first-hand. And quickly. When these officers had
• 26:24
  Speaker 2: already killed at least.
• 26:25
  Speaker 7: Three people, the detectives feared that it could easily be
• 26:34
  Speaker 7: even more. In Miami, four people were murdered because of
• 26:37
  Speaker 7: a fraudulent drug deal worth $ 27 million.
• 26:38
  Speaker 2: Because there was so.
• 26:39
  Speaker 1: Much money in the game, the line of separation between
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: criminals and policemen disappeared. The FBI offered its support to
• 26:51
  Speaker 1: the local criminal prosecution authorities.
• 26:54
  Speaker 2: Special Agent Robert Martin.
• 26:58
  Speaker 6: We started with the investigations that became a joint investigation
• 27:01
  Speaker 6: to find out whether there was corruption in the Miami police.
• 27:06
  Speaker 6: Investigators from the drug trafficking group Centac 26 had their
• 27:08
  Speaker 6: investigations on a random group of.
• 27:10
  Speaker 2: Corrupt police officers in Miami.
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: But the investigators needed insider information if they wanted to
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: solve the case. They hoped to get these from a
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: controversial police officer named Armando Uhn. They had already asked
• 27:34
  Speaker 1: Uhn about the murder of his friend and partner, the
• 27:36
  Speaker 1: nightclub owner Luis Rodriguez. He seemed suspicious, perhaps out of
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: fear that they too would be corrupt policemen.
• 27:55
  Speaker 5: Armando, I want you to look at these photos and
• 27:56
  Speaker 5: look at them and look at them.
• 27:59
  Speaker 1: Detective George Plasencia tried to gain his trust by showing
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: photos of her surveillance of the suspicious officers.
• 28:04
  Speaker 2: And he started.
• 28:08
  Speaker 5: Looking through the photos and held an inner.
• 28:12
  Speaker 6: He dropped the photos, shook our hand and said, you're
• 28:14
  Speaker 6: doing a good job.
• 28:16
  Speaker 2: Let's sit together. But unfortunately, something like that goes wrong.
• 28:20
  Speaker 1: Cujun came to the Centax 26 and told Detective Alex
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: Alvarez that he had nothing more to lose.
• 28:25
  Speaker 3: He was afraid.
• 28:26
  Speaker 6: He thought, if I deal with the corrupt policemen, they
• 28:30
  Speaker 6: were probably the ones who killed my partner. And he said,
• 28:35
  Speaker 6: if you kill him, I'll be the next one to
• 28:38
  Speaker 6: come to you. In a marathon discussion, he explained the
• 28:43
  Speaker 6: origins of the corrupt officers and their criminal company. He
• 28:47
  Speaker 6: said his friend and employer, the nightclub owner Luis Rodriguez,
• 28:51
  Speaker 6: was sorry that the officers came to his bar and
• 28:53
  Speaker 6: let his guests play drugs because of a small amount
• 28:55
  Speaker 6: of drugs.
• 28:55
  Speaker 2: He wanted to make.
• 28:56
  Speaker 6: Sure that his customers were not harassed. So he started
• 29:00
  Speaker 6: to bribe the police first, so that they wouldn't come.
• 29:04
  Speaker 6: Soon he developed another.
• 29:05
  Speaker 2: Plan with which everyone could bring in some money.
• 29:15
  Speaker 6: According to Owen, Luis Rodriguez said to the officers, hey,
• 29:19
  Speaker 6: you know what? Instead of taking these people who come
• 29:23
  Speaker 6: here with the small drugs, I could just arrange deals
• 29:26
  Speaker 6: for them.
• 29:26
  Speaker 5: Maybe a kilo of more drugs.
• 29:30
  Speaker 6: And when these people come here, I'll give you a
• 29:31
  Speaker 6: description of their car and where they come from. You
• 29:34
  Speaker 6: can stop them, You steal cocaine, bring it to me,
• 29:37
  Speaker 6: I sell it and you get a share.
• 29:41
  Speaker 2: The officers agreed.
• 29:48
  Speaker 6: What these policemen participated in was that they grew up
• 29:50
  Speaker 6: with drugs and knew people who were involved in drug trafficking.
• 29:54
  Speaker 6: That was the only aspect that spoke for them.
• 29:59
  Speaker 2: Police officer Marco Ribera was in charge of the business.
• 30:01
  Speaker 2: It seemed to be a perfect plan.
• 30:10
  Speaker 1: The dealers would never burden themselves by calling the thieves.
• 30:13
  Speaker 2: And Rodriguez always came with the money. Give me the car.
• 30:19
  Speaker 5: I wish you a good night.
• 30:26
  Speaker 1: Owen said the operation was fast growing, as more and
• 30:28
  Speaker 1: more police officers were involved. But they became greedy and
• 30:33
  Speaker 1: wanted to commit even more and even more fraud.
• 30:35
  Speaker 2: After Rodriguez introduced her.
• 30:37
  Speaker 5: To a second bar owner who knew.
• 30:39
  Speaker 1: About larger deliveries. Luis Rodriguez brought another bar owner.
• 30:42
  Speaker 2: He knew about.
• 30:46
  Speaker 6: The smuggling of drugs into the United States and worked
• 30:49
  Speaker 6: on it. And Rodriguez said, wait a minute, why do
• 30:58
  Speaker 6: we listen to these drug rations with one to two
• 31:01
  Speaker 6: kilos of cocaine? Why don't we get all the boatloads
• 31:05
  Speaker 6: and suddenly get 300, 400, 500 kilos of cocaine?
• 31:07
  Speaker 5: Horn knew nothing about the ration that the men drank.
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: But he described an earlier one that the second bar
• 31:13
  Speaker 1: owner had staged. A group of police officers from Miami
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: were on board a boat in another yacht port, because
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: they thought the crew was up for the night.
• 31:29
  Speaker 3: They knew exactly where the drugs were hidden.
• 31:42
  Speaker 1: But during the unloading, that the air conditioning system had
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: been switched on.
• 31:59
  Speaker 2: And suspected that the crew was still hidden on board.
• 32:25
  Speaker 2: The crew returned. The attackers wasted no time and eliminated
• 32:36
  Speaker 2: the crew. As with the other attack. This time they drowned.
• 32:40
  Speaker 6: All men swam safely to.
• 32:48
  Speaker 2: The shore.
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: The policemen were finished and drove about 200 kilos of
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: cocaine out of.
• 33:01
  Speaker 6: It.
• 33:01
  Speaker 2: Valuable value. Over 10 million dollars.
• 33:07
  Speaker 1: Armando Un confirmed the names of the involved officers. Exactly
• 33:11
  Speaker 1: the ones that CENTAC had observed. Unfortunately, the investigators knew
• 33:16
  Speaker 1: that his credibility would be attacked before court.
• 33:18
  Speaker 6: The.
• 33:18
  Speaker 2: In theory, Armando Un would be a self-proclaimed.
• 33:25
  Speaker 6: A consistent drug dealer, not believing more than one and
• 33:28
  Speaker 6: a half dozen or a dozen policemen.
• 33:31
  Speaker 5: They just wouldn't believe it. So we needed more evidence.
• 33:38
  Speaker 1: What they needed was a confession on tape from exactly
• 33:42
  Speaker 1: the policemen against whom they investigated. They got the owner
• 33:49
  Speaker 1: of a local bar who was affected by the drug
• 33:50
  Speaker 1: rats and gave him the evidence they had, the evidence
• 33:52
  Speaker 1: they had, the evidence they had, the evidence they had.
• 33:56
  Speaker 1: Spieder willig willigte er ein, einen Anzug zu tragen und
• 33:58
  Speaker 1: sich mit dem Beamten Marco Ribera zu treffen. Aber er sagte,
• 34:03
  Speaker 1: Ribera habe ihn seit Wochen gemieden, zweifellos wegen der Ermittlungen
• 34:06
  Speaker 1: zu Syntex 26.
• 34:07
  Speaker 2: Sie würden ihn.
• 34:10
  Speaker 6: Dazu bringen müssen. Die Ermittler hofften, dass die Ergebnisse das
• 34:20
  Speaker 6: Risiko wert sein würden. The police officers were standing in
• 34:25
  Speaker 6: front of a bar in a neighborhood where Rivera was
• 34:27
  Speaker 6: patrolling and sent the informant in. When the surveillance units
• 34:35
  Speaker 6: confirmed that Rivera was nearby, the police officers called the
• 34:38
  Speaker 6: emergency call and reported a gang fight.
• 34:40
  Speaker 2: As planned, the Rivera officer drove up.
• 34:57
  Speaker 1: Rivera entered the building to look for the suspect, but
• 35:00
  Speaker 1: everything remained quiet.
• 35:06
  Speaker 2: The informant made his move. He told.
• 35:11
  Speaker 1: The officer that he had been invited by the US
• 35:13
  Speaker 1: state embassy and wanted to know what to say.
• 35:15
  Speaker 2: Rivera swallowed the bait, but he did not want to
• 35:20
  Speaker 2: speak in front of witnesses.
• 35:32
  Speaker 1: The corrupt policeman spoke freely about his involvement in the
• 35:34
  Speaker 1: drug operations.
• 35:48
  Speaker 6: Rivera had no idea that everything he said was recorded.
• 35:58
  Speaker 6: In Miami, the investigators follow a group of corrupt policemen
• 36:01
  Speaker 6: who were suspected of being drug dealers.
• 36:03
  Speaker 2: And to have killed at least three of them.
• 36:09
  Speaker 1: The detectives of Centax 26 finally manage to record a
• 36:11
  Speaker 1: stressful conversation with the leader of the group, Officer Rivera,
• 36:15
  Speaker 1: by talking about the rats.
• 36:18
  Speaker 2: The drugs and the corrupt policemen. Detective Alex Alvarez.
• 36:26
  Speaker 6: It was a key evidence, because it was the corrupt
• 36:29
  Speaker 6: policeman's own words about what he had done, when he
• 36:32
  Speaker 6: had done it and with whom he had done it.
• 36:36
  Speaker 2: The US Attorney General in Miami checked the tapes. The
• 36:38
  Speaker 2: US Attorney General, Russell Killinger, knew that.
• 36:42
  Speaker 1: They would need as much evidence as possible to convince
• 36:44
  Speaker 1: the jury that several police officers from Miami were behind
• 36:46
  Speaker 1: the murders and thefts.
• 36:47
  Speaker 2: The tapes were a good start, but.
• 36:56
  Speaker 2: Killinger needed more evidence to pressure the other officers. Maybe
• 37:01
  Speaker 2: Armando could have found them.
• 37:04
  Speaker 6: We wanted Aoun to be wired and to talk to
• 37:08
  Speaker 6: the other police officers so that they could.
• 37:12
  Speaker 5: Confirm their own involvement from their own drive.
• 37:14
  Speaker 1: Aoun met with the officers from Miami, Mark Regibera and
• 37:20
  Speaker 1: Armando Garcia. He told him that the investigators asked him
• 37:27
  Speaker 1: questions about the boat's overfills.
• 37:30
  Speaker 6: They warned him not to cooperate. He assured them that
• 37:35
  Speaker 6: Centac had nothing to do with them. But then they
• 37:47
  Speaker 6: were suspicious and asked him if he had been wired.
• 37:53
  Speaker 1: This made all plans to carry out no further investigations
• 37:56
  Speaker 1: against the officials.
• 37:57
  Speaker 2: But the investigators were afraid. We decided to take the next.
• 38:04
  Speaker 8: Step.
• 38:05
  Speaker 6: Basically, witnesses were taken to the convicts and.
• 38:13
  Speaker 5: Bank deposits to issue bank and financial documents.
• 38:24
  Speaker 1: The investigators began to catalogue the assets of the suspects,
• 38:27
  Speaker 1: including Marco Ribera's bank account in Miami. The bank account
• 38:36
  Speaker 1: was worth over $ 260, 000, almost ten times its annual salary.
• 38:39
  Speaker 2: Like Ribera, the other suspects also left traces.
• 38:44
  Speaker 6: Of money. The money burned in their pockets and they
• 38:51
  Speaker 6: gave it away somewhere else.
• 38:53
  Speaker 5: They bought cars for 20,000, 40,000, 40,000 dollars in cash.
• 38:54
  Speaker 5: They bought houses worth over 200,000 dollars in cash. They
• 38:56
  Speaker 5: bought expensive furniture.
• 38:57
  Speaker 2: They paid cash.
• 38:57
  Speaker 5: That a civil servant who earns 30,000 dollars... We had
• 38:59
  Speaker 5: a huge amount of evidence.
• 39:01
  Speaker 6: The financial documents were, together with the recorded conversations, sufficient
• 39:06
  Speaker 6: evidence to issue arrest orders.
• 39:07
  Speaker 1: To suspect you is my arrest order. Two days after
• 39:20
  Speaker 1: Christmas 1985, the Miami PD and the FBI started arresting
• 39:22
  Speaker 1: and arresting six police officers from Miami, including the chief
• 39:29
  Speaker 1: of staff, Officer Marco Rivera.
• 39:35
  Speaker 2: Officer Armando Garcia was also arrested without any incidents.
• 39:40
  Speaker 1: Osvaldo Cuevas and Emilio Reyes were arrested in the following days.
• 39:46
  Speaker 2: The trial began on September 29, 1980. The state attorney.
• 39:50
  Speaker 2: Were they of the opinion that they had good arguments?
• 39:51
  Speaker 3: Had.
• 39:52
  Speaker 6: We had a good feeling at some point. We had
• 39:56
  Speaker 6: pretty much all the evidence we had hoped for.
• 39:59
  Speaker 1: On January 21, 1987, the jury came back with their verdicts.
• 40:11
  Speaker 6: I remember that the judge looked at the verdict forms
• 40:13
  Speaker 6: again and again. He looked at one and put it aside.
• 40:15
  Speaker 6: And another he put aside. And then he took the
• 40:17
  Speaker 6: third one in his hand again. Looked at it again
• 40:19
  Speaker 6: and the third one in his hand again. Looked at
• 40:21
  Speaker 6: it again and it seemed to go on forever. Then
• 40:24
  Speaker 6: he began to shake his head.
• 40:25
  Speaker 1: The jury, who could not agree with the judge, therefore
• 40:27
  Speaker 1: imposed the procedure.
• 40:28
  Speaker 2: On to support misjudgments.
• 40:31
  Speaker 1: A swindler had refused to counsel. The investigators were speechless
• 40:35
  Speaker 1: when all suspects were released.
• 40:36
  Speaker 6: That was really a low point in the investigation.
• 40:41
  Speaker 9: We found out later that the 11 accused, who had
• 40:44
  Speaker 9: voted for a conviction, were so burned out because of
• 40:50
  Speaker 9: all the evidence, that they started to report and say,
• 40:54
  Speaker 9: you know, we were contacted by friends and family members
• 40:58
  Speaker 9: of these policemen, who offered us jobs and money, and
• 41:02
  Speaker 9: we knew that this was an attempt to get.
• 41:07
  Speaker 1: Us Investigators knew that if they couldn't bring these corrupt
• 41:21
  Speaker 1: policemen behind bars, the people in Miami, the prosecution authorities,
• 41:25
  Speaker 1: would never trust them again.
• 41:31
  Speaker 2: A group of Miami officials were arrested and prosecuted for corruption.
• 41:34
  Speaker 1: But the chaos in the room where they were accused
• 41:36
  Speaker 1: led to a misjudgment.
• 41:37
  Speaker 2: All suspects were released.
• 41:46
  Speaker 5: They were thrilled that they were not convicted.
• 41:47
  Speaker 6: What they did not realize was that this was probably
• 41:50
  Speaker 6: a hidden blessing for us, because it only gave us
• 41:52
  Speaker 6: more time. And we were even more determined to find
• 41:54
  Speaker 6: more evidence against them. And that's exactly what happened.
• 41:56
  Speaker 1: The prosecutor and the investigators did not want to give up.
• 42:05
  Speaker 1: Because so much was at stake, the investigators needed a chance.
• 42:07
  Speaker 1: And they finally.
• 42:10
  Speaker 2: Got it.
• 42:13
  Speaker 6: Wir fanden heraus, dass diese Beam einen Auftragskiller angeheuert hatten,
• 42:17
  Speaker 6: um Armando Onda zu töten.
• 42:19
  Speaker 1: Dieser Auftragskiller war der Killer Joe Martinez. Er gestand, dass
• 42:26
  Speaker 1: er angeheuert worden war, um auf Milde für ein anderes Verbrechen,
• 42:29
  Speaker 1: das er begangen hatte, hoffen zu können.
• 42:36
  Speaker 5: Wir nahmen ihn fest. Er sagte gegen die Flusspolizisten aus.
• 42:40
  Speaker 5: Wir konnten weitere Anklagen gegen sie erheben.
• 42:42
  Speaker 6: At this point, the case became more and more convincing,
• 42:46
  Speaker 6: and they didn't know how to proceed. Then they went
• 42:50
  Speaker 6: after him and started cooperating.
• 42:55
  Speaker 1: The case eventually broke out when one of the defendants,
• 42:58
  Speaker 1: the police officer Emilio Rey, decided to testify. He had
• 43:03
  Speaker 1: learned about his lawyer from the additional evidence against him.
• 43:08
  Speaker 2: He hoped for mild compensation for his statement.
• 43:14
  Speaker 8: He described to us some rather harrowing conspiracies that had
• 43:20
  Speaker 8: taken place and that aimed to kill the government's witnesses.
• 43:28
  Speaker 1: All the government's witnesses, especially Amanda Ugon, were in danger.
• 43:37
  Speaker 1: The investigators knew that they had to use the testimony
• 43:38
  Speaker 1: of police officer Reyes to exert more pressure on the
• 43:40
  Speaker 1: other police officers of the river. In the face of
• 43:50
  Speaker 1: the strained federal procedure, the leader of the Reds, Marco Rivero, said.
• 43:55
  Speaker 1: He had about 60 other policemen of the city involved
• 43:59
  Speaker 1: in various criminal activities.
• 44:03
  Speaker 2: Both fled.
• 44:04
  Speaker 1: Osvaldo Coelho and Armando Garcia from the Miami area. Five
• 44:11
  Speaker 1: months later, a FBI informant said, Coelho hides in the Bahamas.
• 44:17
  Speaker 1: The FBI has no formal jurisdiction outside of the United States. Therefore,
• 44:21
  Speaker 1: in many countries, law enforcement agencies, so-called legates, are involved.
• 44:29
  Speaker 1: They work as contact people with the national police of
• 44:31
  Speaker 1: the respective country. The FBI contact person asked the Böhmian police.
• 44:37
  Speaker 2: For help with the arrest of.
• 44:41
  Speaker 1: Keule.
• 44:46
  Speaker 2: Hey man.
• 45:16
  Speaker 6: Okay.
• 45:17
  Speaker 2: Good night.
• 45:18
  Speaker 3: See you.
• 45:20
  Speaker 2: What Coelho didn't know.
• 45:21
  Speaker 1: Was that the FBI had already contacted his friend and
• 45:24
  Speaker 1: that he was working as an informant. The Bohemian police
• 45:33
  Speaker 1: arrested Osvaldo Coelho without incident. He was taken to Miami,
• 45:38
  Speaker 1: where he had to take responsibility for drug trafficking, corruption
• 45:40
  Speaker 1: and organized crime. Armando Garcia was the last of the
• 45:46
  Speaker 1: criminal police officers from Miami, who was still on the loose.
• 45:52
  Speaker 1: On January 8, 1989, the FBI Garcia took the list
• 45:55
  Speaker 1: of the ten most sought-after criminals.
• 45:59
  Speaker 2: FBI Special Agent Robert Martin.
• 46:02
  Speaker 6: We don't choose our top ten criminals easily. There have
• 46:04
  Speaker 6: to be people who we see as serious dangers, not
• 46:07
  Speaker 6: only for society, but for the body and the structure
• 46:10
  Speaker 6: of our country.
• 46:10
  Speaker 2: And honest criminals.
• 46:15
  Speaker 6: The FBI had evidence.
• 46:19
  Speaker 5: That Gassier could have fled to South.
• 46:23
  Speaker 2: America, but had only a few clues.
• 46:24
  Speaker 1: Special Agent Robert Martin leads the Corruption Department in public.
• 46:31
  Speaker 2: Service, which continues to search for the seriously injured.
• 46:42
  Speaker 6: Armando Garcia had unique qualifications to understand what it would
• 46:47
  Speaker 6: mean to survive outside of the country.
• 46:48
  Speaker 2: He was a policeman who.
• 46:51
  Speaker 6: Knew every technique we could use to find or catch him.
• 46:57
  Speaker 6: He was a man who knew the difficulties of entering
• 47:00
  Speaker 6: and exiting foreign countries and conducting investigations there.
• 47:05
  Speaker 2: He also had a lot of money. Garcia could be anywhere.
• 47:11
  Speaker 2: For four years, the agents went through hundreds of reports
• 47:13
  Speaker 2: with negative results.
• 47:16
  Speaker 1: At the end of 1993, the FBI received a tip.
• 47:21
  Speaker 2: A friend planned to visit the Garcia family in Colombia. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: if you just do this job.
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  Speaker 1: Bengen worked with the Colombian police, who followed the friend
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  Speaker 1: to an apartment in Cali. The agents believed that the
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  Speaker 1: refugee Armando Garcia lived there.
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  Speaker 6: The Colombian National Police directed an surveillance with several units.
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  Speaker 6: It was supposed to be a 24-hour surveillance and they
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  Speaker 6: waited to see if they could identify anyone who would
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  Speaker 6: come out with him or travel around.
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  Speaker 3: Three days later they discovered Armando Garcia.
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  Speaker 2: The refugee was surprised.
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  Speaker 6: The police!
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  Speaker 2: Garcia said to them, I have $ 4, 000 with me.
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  Speaker 5: I have, do you see the jewelry I have?
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  Speaker 2: Do you see my car? I have goods and accessories
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  Speaker 2: in my apartment. You can have it all if you
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  Speaker 2: just let me go.
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  Speaker 6: And then I want to quote the officer of the
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  Speaker 6: Colombian National Police, who came to Miami to describe the events.
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  Speaker 6: They then said to Armando Garcia, we are not the groups.
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  Speaker 2: The last of.
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  Speaker 1: The main suspects, Armando Garcia, was accused of drug trafficking,
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  Speaker 1: of oppression and tax evasion and was sentenced to 25 years.
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  Speaker 2: And was... When it.
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  Speaker 1: Was all over, 17 Miami officials were convicted of their
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  Speaker 1: involvement in the drug fraud ring.
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  Speaker 2: That was.
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  Speaker 3: The biggest case of police corruption in the history of Florida.
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  Speaker 2: As a reaction to the scandal, the city's.
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  Speaker 1: Police department set up its own internal investigation unit, which
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  Speaker 1: included over 100 additional officers.
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  Speaker 2: Of course, under all the media coverage and the.
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  Speaker 1: Embarrassment that numerous officers were arrested, but I think it.
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  Speaker 6: Was done by a stronger department. If you sort out
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  Speaker 6: the bad officers, the good ones will shine brighter.