Cocaine Cowboys

it has never seen before. 1377 00:52:04,702 --> 00:52:05,442 Near the Miami stadium, 1378 00:52:05,603 --> 00:52:07,981 a 3-year-old boy was shot and paralyzed 1379 00:52:08,105 --> 00:52:09,675 when assassins killed his father. 1380 00:52:09,807 --> 00:52:11,548 A 14-year-old girl was murdered. 1381 00:52:11,709 --> 00:52:14,053 At high noon, a Colombian cocaine dealer 1382 00:52:14,212 --> 00:52:16,214 was shot in a crowded pizza parlor 1383 00:52:16,381 --> 00:52:17,758 after the killers ordered lunch. 1384 00:52:17,915 --> 00:52:20,418 When they found a young Hispanic person dead 1385 00:52:20,585 --> 00:52:22,428 the police automatically assumed 1386 00:52:22,586 --> 00:52:23,724 it was cocaine related. 1387 00:52:23,888 --> 00:52:25,367 Sometimes you'd read in the paper, 1388 00:52:25,490 --> 00:52:27,993 wow, you know, like I know this guy. 1389 00:52:28,125 --> 00:52:30,071 You know, he's like got murdered 1390 00:52:30,228 --> 00:52:31,866 or he got arrested for it. 1391 00:52:32,029 --> 00:52:33,474 [man 1] More and more Colombian traffickers 1392 00:52:33,631 --> 00:52:36,111 bring their incredible brand of violence here. 1393 00:52:36,267 --> 00:52:37,610 We have had kidnappings 1394 00:52:37,768 --> 00:52:39,611 and machine gun murders in broad daylight. 1395 00:52:39,770 --> 00:52:40,942 [man 2] It was just unbelievable. 1396 00:52:41,105 --> 00:52:42,083 You hear the shots, 1397 00:52:42,239 --> 00:52:43,479 but they miss him, and they got this one. 1398 00:52:43,641 --> 00:52:46,121 [man 3] All of a sudden, I heard a number of shots about 10 or 12. 1399 00:52:46,277 --> 00:52:47,813 And I was just out walking my dogs. 1400 00:52:47,979 --> 00:52:50,653 And all of a sudden I heard all this shooting going on. 1401 00:52:50,815 --> 00:52:52,123 The shots woke me up. 1402 00:52:52,283 --> 00:52:53,387 And I heard the bullets over my head, 1403 00:52:53,518 --> 00:52:54,496 and I hit the ground. 1404 00:52:54,652 --> 00:52:57,030 That's the kind of stuff you see on television. 1405 00:52:57,155 --> 00:52:58,498 You don't see it in real life. 1406 00:52:58,656 --> 00:53:00,101 [man] Four shots in broad daylight 1407 00:53:00,258 --> 00:53:02,670 in full view of several stunned witnesses. 1408 00:53:02,827 --> 00:53:05,273 But this was real life. That was really going on. 1409 00:53:05,429 --> 00:53:06,840 [Buchanan] At the Doral, the beach police 1410 00:53:06,997 --> 00:53:09,273 had an undercover drug buy going on. 1411 00:53:09,433 --> 00:53:11,640 Five people were shot, including their own informant. 1412 00:53:11,802 --> 00:53:13,247 They shot their own informant by mistake. 1413 00:53:13,404 --> 00:53:16,044 Gunfire, wounded bodies, people screaming 1414 00:53:16,174 --> 00:53:18,279 and the people at the Doral did not panic. 1415 00:53:18,442 --> 00:53:21,480 A lot of them thought they were just filming Miami Vice. 1416 00:53:21,646 --> 00:53:24,991 [man] Police usually have no idea who the Colombians are. 1417 00:53:25,149 --> 00:53:26,992 They all had half a dozen identities. 1418 00:53:27,151 --> 00:53:30,496 The criminals use an astounding number of false IDs and aliases. 1419 00:53:30,655 --> 00:53:32,157 And a lot of these Colombians claim to be 1420 00:53:32,323 --> 00:53:33,927 from Puerto Rico, but they couldn't spell it. 1421 00:53:34,092 --> 00:53:36,538 [man] invariably they are here with phony ID, 1422 00:53:36,694 --> 00:53:38,298 frequently posing as Puerto Ricans. 1423 00:53:38,462 --> 00:53:41,170 Sometimes detectives can't even identify the victims. 1424 00:53:41,332 --> 00:53:43,539 Traditionally, the homicide investigators' 1425 00:53:43,701 --> 00:53:47,080 hardest case to solve is the "who done it." 1426 00:53:47,204 --> 00:53:49,650 In Miami we had, "who is it?" 1427 00:53:49,807 --> 00:53:52,253 It's very hard to find out who killed somebody 1428 00:53:52,376 --> 00:53:53,514 if you don't know who got killed. 1429 00:53:53,678 --> 00:53:55,419 Of course, if you happen to be illegal 1430 00:53:55,546 --> 00:53:57,548 coming in across the border, 1431 00:53:57,715 --> 00:54:00,662 fingerprints don't help you much because there's no records. 1432 00:54:00,818 --> 00:54:02,695 [man] Police also have a hard time enticing 1433 00:54:02,853 --> 00:54:04,833 witnesses and informants to work with them. 1434 00:54:04,989 --> 00:54:06,468 I don't have any idea what's happened. 1435 00:54:06,590 --> 00:54:08,331 They may not be able to say very much in English 1436 00:54:08,492 --> 00:54:10,472 but they'll know how to say, "I want an attorney" 1437 00:54:10,595 --> 00:54:11,573 or "I don't know." 1438 00:54:11,729 --> 00:54:14,005 We're dealing with crimes which have 1439 00:54:14,198 --> 00:54:16,838 international repercussions and for whic