Donato Dalrymple calls Elian Gonzalez his spiritual son. The Lauderhill man plans to play an ongoing role in the six year-old’s life, even if the boy is returned to Cuba. After all, Dalrymple says, God selected him as a savior. “God led me to him. God helped me take him…

Wilbert “Nica” Cuadra sat in his Chevy Caprice with four of his boys. It was a typical Friday night; Nica was drunk on Mad Dog 20/20 and infused with a familiar rage. Across University Drive he could see the enemy — members of a West Broward gang called La Familia…

I drank cool water from a clear plastic bottle and tried to get down some trail mix. It was probably 2:30 in the afternoon, and I hadn’t had anything to eat all day, so I should have been hungry. But it’s amazing how the stomach takes to itself at the…

Aaron Sanchez, sitting in his office on the second floor of the Miami FBI office, ordered supervisory special agent Jerry Sullivan to show him the money. All $129,324 of it, along with records detailing where it had been. Nine months had passed since the cash was seized from a Deerfield…