The Prince of Paradise by John Glatt

Author:John Glatt [Glatt, John]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Biography & Autobiography, True Crime, Retail, Nonfiction, Ben Novak
ISBN: 9781250035738
Google: cXg3RtH_-bsC
Amazon: 1250035724
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 2013-04-16T04:00:00+00:00

THIRTY-THREE

THE KILLING

At 1:00 P.M. on Friday April 3, Francisco Picado rented a red Chevy Scion from Rent Max in Miami, paying $118 in cash that he had been given by Cristobal Veliz. He then drove it to the car wash, where Melvin Medrano was waiting.

Two hours later, Medrano took the wheel of the Scion and collected Alejandro Garcia from the Blue Belle Trailer Park, where Garcia was renting a small room in the back of a trailer. He brought him back to the car wash, where Veliz was parked in his green Nissan Pathfinder.

After collecting a fourteen-inch monkey wrench, Medrano and Garcia followed Veliz to NE Thirty-Seventh Drive, Fort Lauderdale, and waited for Bernice Novack to come home. Several hours later, after she failed to appear, Veliz took his men out for dinner.

“Cristobal said that we were going to return,” Garcia said.

On Saturday afternoon, they regrouped in the parking lot of a Checkers restaurant on East Sunrise Boulevard, Fort Lauderdale. Upon their arrival, Garcia stepped out of the Scion and walked over to the Pathfinder, where Veliz was receiving last-minute instructions from Narcy on his cell phone.

“He said, ‘Mi Niña is giving me her route,” Garcia later testified. “His sister was giving him information, and he was writing down the make and license plate numbers of the old lady’s car.”

Veliz said the old lady would be at a strip mall near her house. So, after eating lunch, they drove there. When there was no sign of Bernice at the mall, he checked in with his sister, who suggested trying a nearby hair salon Bernice used. But there was no sign of her there, either.

Then Veliz ordered Medrano to follow him to Bernice’s house, where there was a large black truck parked outside in front of her tan Infiniti.

Jefe told his men to wait for the old lady to come home and then attack her, before driving off and parking a few blocks away by a condo complex.

Melvin Medrano parked the red Scion at the end of the block and waited.

“I told Melvin I needed to buy a bottle of rum,” said Garcia. “I was nervous because I had to attack the old lady. I can’t do this if I don’t drink something.”

So they drove to a nearby liquor store, by the beach, and Medrano bought a large bottle of rum and a soda to mix with it, which Garcia began drinking.

Periodically, Medrano drove past Bernice Novack’s house to see if the black truck was still there, as they were waiting until it had left before moving in. When Garcia finished the bottle of rum, he told Medrano to buy him another, so they drove back to the liquor store.

While there, Medrano decided to buy binoculars, for a better view of the old lady’s house. So he drove to a drugstore and bought a pair for twenty dollars. Then, after discovering they were no good, he returned to exchange them for a better pair.

This time when they went back to Bernice

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