MIAMI DRUG WARS Ep. 5 | “Cocaine Cops”

Infamous America

Black Barrel Media

True Crime, Documentary, History, Society & Culture

4.5 • 2.8K Ratings

🗓️ 21 April 2021

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

While Jon Roberts and other prominent figures in the Miami cocaine business deal with the fallout from Griselda Blanco’s situation and government informants, a new group takes center stage in the drug wars: the Cocaine Cops. Young officers on the Miami police force give into the temptation of making fast money and they organize an escalating series of crimes until, in the summer of 1985, they go too far. Join Black Barrel+ for bingeable seasons with no commercials : blackbarrel.supportingcast.fm/join For more details, please visit www.blackbarrelmedia.com. Our social media pages are: @blackbarrelmedia on Facebook and Instagram, and @bbarrelmedia on Twitter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	A boat called the Mary Sea docked at the Jones boatyard along the Miami River.
0:18.8	In the summer of 1985, the river was a major thoroughfare for pleasure cruisers and fishermen.
0:25.6	It's regularly docked late at night after a day on the open water, so nothing about
0:30.4	the Mary Sea seemed out of the ordinary.
0:33.6	But the six men on board weren't coming back from a day of leisure or fishing.
0:38.8	They were there to unload close to 400 kilos of cocaine from the boat to a van that was
0:44.2	waiting near the dock.
0:46.4	The Miami River had proven to be an effective route for smugglers, especially as the US government
0:51.9	made it harder for drug planes to fly into Florida.
0:56.2	Sometime after midnight, the men on the Mary Sea spotted a group of cops coming their way.
1:02.1	It was immediately clear that this was not a typical police raid.
1:06.2	The cops had their guns raised, and it sounded like one of them was yelling, kill them, kill
1:11.4	them.
1:12.7	The six men jumped overboard and tried to escape down the river.
1:16.8	The cops didn't go after them.
1:18.7	They weren't there to make arrests.
1:20.8	They were there for the drugs.
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