Word: cruz
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...force has angered many blacks, who resent the services and attention given to Cuban immigrants by city officials. The shooting of Johnson by Alvarez, a Hispanic with only 21 months on the force, inflamed this sore spot. Miami officials also note that he and his partner, Louis Cruz, 22, had left their assigned patrol area and gone to the video-game parlor on their...
...Hula, fat and fiftyish, owns a small marine salvage firm in Miami. Out of nowhere, he gets a phone call from his younger half brother, Michael Cruz. They have heretofore shared only a mother and mutual indifference (Hula's father was Polish, Cruz's a Portuguese seaman). Now Cruz, a New York mobster, needs Hula's help, offers him half a million dollars and threatens to destroy his business if he refuses. Hula does not. Cruz has somehow got hold of a ton of cocaine in Colombia and transported it to the Bahamas. A boat carrying this...
Once the cocaine is transferred to a van, Hula relaxes and tells Cruz: "So it's done. I'm glad it's over." Of course it is not done, either for Hula, Cruz, Wally Liberty (the pilot of the boat) or Hula's girlfriend Lisa Bishop. It is bad enough that Arthur Rawden, a canny investigator for the Drug Enforcement Agency, has picked up their scent. It is worse that a mysterious bald man continues to stalk Cruz, threatening to kill him and his associates. Worst of all, some of the ablest hired guns...
...Overtown violence began at a neighborhood video-game arcade on 14th Street. Tall, skinny Nevell ("Snake") Johnson, 20, was playing a game called Eagle after work. Just past 6 p.m., two uniformed Miami policemen, Luis Alva rez, 32, and Louis Cruz, 22, came in on their own to scrutinize the place and its 30 patrons, almost all of them young blacks...
Alvarez, who was a car salesman un til he joined the Miami police in 1981, has prompted many complaints from Miami citizens and five departmental investigations. Cruz, his partner, graduated from the police academy only last month...