Mysterious Anti-Crime Wave Sweeps Miami
Miami, FL
March 15, 2009
Crime rates, while at an all-time high, don’t tell the whole story about the state of crime in Miami. According to anonymous sources within the police department, meticulously planned and executed counter-capers have thwarted hundreds of crimes over the past two years.
Private security contracts reported a break-in to a Miami-area high-security electronics firm. According to those sources, chips for a military project in ongoing development were the target of the break-in. Calls to military contacts regarding the break-in were not immediately returned. According to a high-level executive at the firm, speaking under condition of anonymity due to the ongoing investigation, company investigators had detected chatter about an upcoming attempt at stealing the chips. The actual security breach occurred during the daytime, which seems incongruent with their, “expert evasion of [the] security systems,” as stated by our source within the firm. Despite a thorough investigation, nothing was discovered to be missing. This itself is very strange, but fits neatly in the ever more common occurrence of anti-crime in this city.
Nearly a year before the electronics non-theft, another precise crime of justice was committed. Local entrepreneur with a checkered past, Lawrence Henderson, was arrested outside of a bank after an anonymous police report claimed a bank robbery was in progress. The report was false, but more interesting than that — Henderson was carrying the spider brooch whose theft that year caused such an uproar. He was arrested on the spot for the theft, and the police would discover that no bank robbery had occurred. According to the trial notes, a security camera was shot out while the police were still en route. Interestingly, none of Henderson’s bodyguards’ guns had been fired, according to the ballistics expert witness. Furthermore, a rifle bullet was discovered to be responsible for the destruction of the camera, despite the bodyguards all carrying submachine guns.
The invasion of a high-security electronics firm and the arrest of a local thief would normally seem to be unrelated. However, the obvious set-up of Henderson, and the precision with which it was done, suggests a link to the more outwardly sophisticated break-in. Who is performing all of these non-crimes? It could certainly be an experiment by local law enforcement; undercover sources being cultivated within the crime world and exploited to solve or thwart crimes that have circumvented traditional law enforcement methods. However, speculation isn’t the area of the reporter. All that’s known for sure is that something new is happening in Miami, and it’s something big.
