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...Sept. 20, De Lorean and Hetrick, who had been introduced to each other by the C.I. earlier in the month, met with...
...scheme was further refined at a meeting on Sept. 28 in Los Angeles' Bonaventure Hotel; present were De Lorean, the C.I. and, for the first time, Vicenza. De Lorean would get the cash profits after Vicenza had sold the drugs. The group agreed that the sales could gross more than $50 million. For his key role, Vicenza would get a 50% interest in De Lorean Motors, which theoretically would have been rejuvenated with the fresh funds...
...agents' attention switched to De Lorean, who was scheduled to arrive in Los Angeles from New York the next day, Tuesday, to wind up the coke transaction. But Hetrick had to be permitted one legally mandated telephone call. Would he tip off De Lorean? He did not. When De Lorean's scheduled flight arrived in Los Angeles, he was aboard, and so were three FBI agents...
...Lorean went directly, and unsuspectingly, to well-wired Room 501 at the Sheraton Plaza. Waiting were the Government's trio: the C.I., Benedict and Vicenza. One of them showed De Lorean a suitcase containing 20 kilos of coke. De Lorean picked up one bag and said, "It's as good as gold and just in the nick of time." Actually it was too late. Only hours earlier, the British government had closed De Lorean's plant in Northern Ireland (see following story...
...Lorean's astonishment, Benedict and Vicenza abruptly broke the light mood by announcing that they were federal agents. They told De Lorean he was under arrest. One of them read him his constitutional rights. Recalled an FBI official: "He was calmer than they had expected him to be." De Lorean was hustled into an unmarked federal car, booked at the downtown Los Angeles jail and led to a six-prisoner cell...