Sunday, June 21, 2015

The way we were....Miami Beach cops take down cocaine lab in the Summer of '85


June 19, 1985: Thirty years ago this week, Miami Beach cops evacuated about 1,000 residents from nine apartment buildings after a cocaine lab filled with volatile chemicals was discovered in a penthouse apartment at 6855 Abbott Ave.

The cops moved the chemicals to a nearby beach and blew them up.