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Tamper Tantrum

Taped conversations helped convict George Gandelman of money laundering. Now the Miamian tries an unusual appeal: Don't believe everything you hear.

By Stan Yarbro
May 11, 1994

Assistant U.S. Attorney Patrick White manages to overcome all the starch stiffening his dress shirt, lean back in his chair, and actually appear relaxed for one moment, however brief, of this long April day. He is startled back into bolt-upright position by his own voice, recorded ten months earlier, talking...
Lord of the Gadflies

In 1991 Keith Wilson became the only man to have a false-arrest complaint upheld by the county's Independent Review Panel. He just made history again.

By Stan Yarbro
Apr 6, 1994

Keith Wilson knows the importance of paper. In 1989, two years after he left the Miami police force to work for his father's church, Wilson was falsely arrested and thrown in jail. His written complaint about the arrest led the county's Independent Review Panel (IRP) to conclude that Metro-Dade police...
The $145,000 Question

What has Roger Rojas built in the back yard of his house in Morningside, and why can't the city seem to find out?

By Stan Yarbro
Mar 30, 1994

In the spring of 1981 Leonid Brezhnev was president of the Soviet Union, Ronald Reagan was a newly installed fixture in the White House, and a particularly frigid phase of the Cold War was getting under way A just off Biscayne Boulevard in the quiet residential neighborhood of Morningside. Nearly...
Animal Thwackers

Some Metrozoo volunteers say that visitors are pelting the residents with rocks and other objects -- and that the zoo's administration doesn't seem to care

By Stan Yarbro
Mar 30, 1994

When Hurricane Andrew battered Metrozoo with some of the highest sustained winds registered in all of South Florida, the devastation was extensive and highly publicized. The storm wrought $15 million in structural damage, including the destruction of the perimeter fencing. Five mammals died, countless birds were lost. For several months...
Getting to Know the Major

To Panama's incarcerated Maximum Leader, he is a link to the outside world. But who exactly is Rudolfo Castrell?

By Stan Yarbro
Mar 9, 1994

Rodolfo Ulises Castrell is capable of evincing a wide range of emotions, from levity to rage, with only a slight change of expression. His eyes will narrow or widen almost imperceptibly. The lines of his mouth turn upward or downward into mirror versions of a gradual arc. But for all...

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