How to Get Away With Murder in America by Evan Wright

Author:Evan Wright [Wright, Evan]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: General, Criminology, Social Science, Law
ISBN: 9781614520344
Publisher: Byliner, Inc
Published: 2012-06-24T00:00:00+00:00

The Return of Alex

One factor that made the case against Erra strong was Mark Baer’s testimony. OCS investigators combed through Albert’s past to find a similar insider to his operations, someone they could turn against him. Baer provided a clue. He said that Albert sometimes sent a bodyguard called “Alex” to negotiate drug deals. Baer described Alex as a Cuban about Albert’s age, physically fit, and possibly a former fireman.

Baer recalled a specific meeting he had attended in 1983 with Alex, Erra, and a drug runner named Hector “Puma” Valdez in order to plan shipments of cocaine to California. OCS detectives tracked down Valdez in prison. He recalled the meeting with Baer, Erra, and another man, but didn’t remember his name, only that “the third man was very quiet and muscular.”

Soon Alex popped up in another branch of the OCS probe. Investigators learned that in 1975, Albert had invested in a bolita—an illegal numbers game—founded by a group of Bay of Pigs vets working as valets at the Dream Bar and the nearby Fontainebleau Hotel. Shortly after they started the bolita, a run of lucky numbers among ticket holders in Hialeah bankrupted it. Albert sent thugs to get his investment back.

Investigators tracked down three of the failed bolita entrepreneurs, and each told matching stories: Albert sent an enforcer named “Alex Padron” and another big guy to collect his money. One of the bolita founders, Hector Serrano, said he was at home when the two showed up. The OCS report recounts the occasion:

The two bodyguards produced pistols and announced they were there to take Serrano’s furniture and green 1970 Ford Maverick. Serrano conceded to the Ford but told them they would have to kill him for the furniture. They took the car and left.

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