Miami-Dade- ICE pursuit/shooting-12/06/2011

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Date:December 6, 2011

Time: approx. 1800 hrs.

Location: U.S. 1 The Overseas Highway @"the 18 mile stretch"

Departments: ATF/DEA/ICE/Miami-Dade Sheriffs/FHP/Monroe County Sheriffs/Miami-Dade Fire Rescue/multiple air units including medivac/numerous other LE agencies

Description: Six month investigation into a South Miami-Dade based drugs/automatic weapons dealing gang. Federal agents were on a buy and bust for a kilo of cocaine and a fully automatic AK-47. This lead to a vehicle pursuit with the suspects ramming a DEA vehicle, and an ICE unit in lead pursuit (you'll see the relevance of that if you click the link and check out how many units ended up on scene). The suspects in a Chevy Avalanche type truck fled through Florida City and had just reached the Everglades portion of U.S.1 when they rolled the pick-up. Two very bad perps allegedly came out shooting, one apparently with an automatic rifle. LE returned fire, killed one, and shot the other. The incident led to U.S.1 being shut down in both directions overnight; luckily Card Sound Rd an alternate route into the Florida Keys remained open.

Links: http://miami.cbslocal.com/2011/12/06/police-chase-ends-with-1-dead-1-shot/

Writer: efdcapt115