Episode 119: Ed Mireles - Fatal FBI Miami Shootout (Part 2)

FBI Retired Case File Review

Jerri Williams

True Crime, Interviews, Fiction, History, Fbi, Government, Truecrime

4.6 • 2.1K Ratings

🗓️ 7 June 2018

⏱️ 113 minutes

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Summary

In part two of this two-part episode, retired agent Ed Mireles reviews the April 11, 1986, fatal FBI Miami shootout where, during the pursuit of two extremely dangerous criminals, two special agents were killed, and several others, including Ed Mireles, were wounded.

Although severely injured, Ed Mireles fired his shotgun one handed to prevent the suspects from escaping, then charged the suspects, fatally wounding both. His heroic actions prevented further injury to his fellow Agents and innocent citizens. He has received numerous awards and commendations honoring him for his heroism and bravery that day. He is the author of FBI Miami Firefight: Five Minutes that Changed the Bureau his story of survival and the fight to save the lives of his brother agents on that fateful day.

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0:00.0	Welcome to episode 119 of FBI Retired Case File Review of Jerry Williams.
0:10.6	I'm a retired agent writing crime fiction inspired by true crime
0:14.8	FBI cases. Today we are back for part two with Ed Morellis.
0:21.0	Ed Morellis served in the FBI for 25 years. During his career he worked as a street agent,
0:28.3	supervisor, and manager in a wide range of investigative and administrative areas as well as an undercover agent
0:36.7	in hundreds of high-level high-risk narcotics and criminal and national Security Investigations.
0:43.0	In this episode, he reviews the April 11th, 1986 fatal FBI Miami Shootout
0:52.0	where during the pursuit of two extremely dangerous criminals
0:56.7	two special agents Ben Grogan and Jerry Dove were killed and others including Edmar Ellis were wounded.
1:07.0	Although severely injured, Ed Marilla's fired his shotgun one-handed to prevent the subjects from escaping
1:15.9	then charged the subjects fatally wounding both. His heroic actions
1:21.9	prevented further injury to his fellow agents and innocent citizens.
1:27.0	He has received numerous awards and accommodations honoring him for his heroism and bravery that day.
1:35.8	He is the author of FBI Miami Firefight, five minutes that changed the Bureau, his story of survival and the fight to say the lives of his brother agents on that faithful day.
1:50.0	The true crime book is available exclusively on his website
1:55.0	Ed Morellis.com.
1:57.0	I am thrilled to present the second part of this episode to you.
2:02.0	I know I left you with a cliffhanger last week. I dedicate
2:06.7	this episode to Ben Grogan and Jerry Dove for their bravery and dedication to duty on April 11th, 1986.
2:17.0	But before we get to the interview, I'd like to invite you to join my reader team
2:22.0	where once a month I send out a digest of the previous
2:26.9	month's podcast episodes and I also keep you up to date on the FBI and books TV and movies and the June issue I write about the new
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