Email Author Rebecca Wakefield

2005 Stories by Rebecca Wakefield

• Kilo: Cocaine Made Miami, Part 2

  published October 13, 2005

  Last week, in Part One of "Kilo," we took readers on a journey through the cocaine world underlying all that Miami has become in the past 25... More >>

• Confessions of a Trafficker

  published October 13, 2005

  At age 57, Jon Roberts is a wiry fellow whose rugged mug has been whittled by time and prison into a caricature of the two-bit New York hood he... More >>

• Awash in a Sea of Money

  published October 6, 2005

  Listen to the pugnacious Ecuadorian fellow with the New York accent, whom shady Miami bankers tolerate with a nervous smile. "Miami has a... More >>

• Biscayne Boomerang

  published July 7, 2005

  A funny thing happened on José Marti's way to the Key Biscayne Police Department, even though it is only steps from the island's... More >>

• Changing Times

  published June 30, 2005

  Sixteen years ago Miami closed out its most turbulent decade with one final spasm of violence. The last major race riot erupted in Overtown in... More >>

• Racial-Profiling Study Liberated

  published May 5, 2005

  Linda O'Brien, Aimee Artiles, Tom Guilfoyle, and Ken Drucker are all pleasant, generally helpful and professional county bureaucrats. Their jobs,... More >>

• Social Promotion

  published April 21, 2005

  Magic the bum races up Washington Avenue on his beat-up bicycle, screeching to a halt just outside a velvet-rope line. He boots the kickstand... More >>

• Caught on Tape

  published April 14, 2005

  In May of last year, Shoma paid $39 million for the former Ryder System headquarters in Doral. Masoud Shojaee, president of Shoma Development, had... More >>

• In the Shadow of New Towers

  published March 10, 2005

  People say the rusty stain near the bottom of the door is Slob's blood, where he leaned as he faded out. The door, which was lying in the yard of... More >>

• Sins of the Sons

  published March 10, 2005

  Patrick Dorneval was unwinding at Fat Tuesday's, a touristy theme bar on the second level of Cocowalk, one night this past December. He got into... More >>

• Family Afoul

  published February 3, 2005

  Joan Andre is an emotional woman. She is given to generous, even extravagant, impulses, which she can often indulge because life has left her... More >>

• Commissioner Hothead

  published January 27, 2005

  Periodic temperamental outbursts seem to be part of the job description for the City of Miami's District 5 representative. Commissioner Jeffery... More >>

• Tow Head

  published January 6, 2005

  The mob guys were leery of taking Laurie in on the big job, even though, at 28, she was one of the best cat burglars on Miami Beach. "They didn't... More >>