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Most of the violent crime in Miami during the period was directly related to conflicts in the city's growing drug trade. [1] In 1979, there were 349 murders in Miami. [11] The next year, the city had 573 murders and the year after that, it had 621 murders. [1] By 1981, the city morgue had an overload of dead bodies and was forced to rent out a ...
Griselda Blanco Restrepo [2] (February 15, 1943 – September 3, 2012) was a Colombian drug lord who was prominent in the cocaine-based drug trade and underworld of Miami, during the 1970s through the early 2000s, and who has also been claimed by some to have been part of the Medellín Cartel.
The operation was established in response to the explosive growth of money laundering in South Florida following the increase in drug trafficking in the region. [1] [2] A 1979 cash-flow study by the Federal Reserve Bank found that Florida had a $5.5 billion cash surplus at a time when the rest of the country had a cash deficit. [1] [2]
By the end of the 1960s, a rapidly expanding Dadeland was enclosed and converted to a mall. By the 1970s, Kendall had become Miami-Dade’s fastest growing community, with this trend accelerating ...
The Comprehensive Drug Abuse Prevention and Control Act of 1970, Pub. L. 91–513, 84 Stat. 1236, enacted October 27, 1970, is a United States federal law that, with subsequent modifications, requires the pharmaceutical industry to maintain physical security and strict record keeping for certain types of drugs. [1]
See shopping photos from the 1970s and ’80s. Jeff Kleinman. August 9, 2023 at 8:55 AM. ... Dadeland Mall has been serving Miami-Dade County shoppers since it opened in 1962. Above: Shoppers ...
The 1980 Miami riots (also called the Arthur McDuffie riots) were race riots that occurred in Miami, Florida, starting in earnest on May 18, 1980, [1] following an all-White male jury acquitting five white Dade County Public Safety Department officers in the death of Arthur McDuffie (December 3, 1946 – December 21, 1979), a Black insurance salesman and United States Marine Corps lance corporal.
Vacant storefronts and restaurants began to find new life as clubs in the ‘80s and early ‘90s. ... By late 1970s and early ‘80s, Miami Beach, after its first heyday from the 1930s through ...