Prior to the drug wars, a person living in Miami was relatively safe if they just stayed out of certain areas. "We suspect they may be involved in the Dadeland killings.".

Police think the slayings were linked to a drug debt.

The audacious gangland hit foreshadowed a coming decade marked… Two colombian assassins murdered narcotics dealer German Jimenez along with his body guard at a Crowns Liquor store in Dadeland Mall. They were both killed instantly. He wanted Suescun’s partner Carlos Panello Ramirez to pay for the break-in as well.

Historians trace the birth of the entire crazy “Cocaine Cowboys Era” in South Florida to a single event: the headline-grabbing Dadeland Mall Massacre on July 11, 1979 where two Miami drug world figures were slain in a Wild-West style shootout in the upscale mall’s liquor store. An incensed Panesso vowed swift vengeance. After a bloody shootout that left mall shoppers terrified, the two men from the Mercedes lay dead in the liquor store; the liquor-store clerk lay wounded outside. I live in the Dadeland area now and I was wondering if anyone knows where in the Dadeland Mall the Crown Liquor store was located? Al Singleton, a Metro-Dade homicide detective said on Friday. She ordered a squad of her most reliable assassins to murder Panesso as a favor to Ramirez. Griselda Blanco was known variously as the “Queen of Cocaine”, the “The Black Widow” or simply La Madrina—”The Godmother.”And she died in a hail of bullets Sunday in Colombia, dispatched in the same way she had allegedly ordered dozens of others killed during her rise to power as one of the biggest drug traffickers in the Western Hemisphere. It's all part of the same organization," Sgt. They kidnapped, stabbed and strangled his 50-year old maid, Ester Rios, to death in the course of a home invasion. They hogtied his body in a way where he ended up strangling himself to an agonizingly painful passing. Police released these details about the suspects: --Velasquez, 32, was arrested by Hollywood police on Tuesday and charged with the first-degree murder of Rodrigo Atehortua at his Polk Street home in 1984.

While dumping the body that night, Panesso’s men got into a shootout with Suescun’s soldiers, who had followed their boss to the sham coke deal.

Panesso and Ramirez were both being supplied their cocaine by Colombia’s Medellin cartel and its female crew boss Griselda (The Godmother) Blanco, a top lieutenant of narco-terrorist and global villain Pablo Escobar. In 1980 the city had 573 murders in the year, and the next year had 621 murders. As the assassins exitted the crime scene, the unthinkable happened, they began to …

Al Profit & Scott M. Burnstein. Cocaine Cowboys Reloaded: The Dadeland Mall Massacre 7/11/1979

The Broward State Attorney's Office is trying to extradite him. However, no charges have been filed against the three men in connection with the Dadeland Mall shootout, police said. In the early afternoon hours of July 11, 1979, Rivi Ayala and Paco Sepulveda, went into the Crown Liquors store at the Dadeland Mall with uzis and unloaded a barrage of gunfire into Panesso and Hernandez, who were at the counter purchasing bottles of Chivas Regal. It was one of Miami’s more memorable eras, making national news in 1979 after the Dadeland Massacre, during which gunmen opened fire on drug rivals shopping at Crown Liquor. After the boy was killed, his father, Jesus Castro, who was identified by detectives as the bodyguard of a narcotics kingpin, washed the body, wrapped it in clean sheets and dumped it on the steps of a Miami mosque. On April 17, 1978, Suescun and his crew ripped off Panesso’s pad for $500,000 and 40 kilos of cocaine.

Copyright. Police suspect Atehortua was killed because he owed Blanco money. Dadeland Massacre.

When police arrived, they found Suescun’s body in the trunk of an abandoned black-colored Audi and four of Panesso’s men (Ruben Echeverria, Julio Gaona, Jorge Luiis de Campo and Osear Penagos Rios) scattered dead in the same parking lot.

No arrests have ever been made in the Dadeland Mall Massacre, but police have a pretty good idea of who and what was behind the murders of 37-year old Colombian drug kingpin German Jimenez Panesso and his 22-year old bodyguard Juan Carlos Hernandez, a double homicide that took place 40 years this week and shook South Florida to its core. The pair were the focus of the cult classic 2006 documentary Cocaine Cowboys helmed by Billy Corben. All Rights Reserved. Police think the three men were paid enforcers for Blanco, also known as La Madrina, or The Godmother. Panesso’s white colored Mercedes was parked on the curb by the store’s entrance.

It’s believed since Blanco owed Panesso a substantial amount of money and didn’t want to have to pay it back, she sided with Ramirez in the dispute and dispatched a hit team to do away with Panesso. Three South Florida police agencies say he is a suspect in four other murders. The Broward Sheriff's Office said it has a warrant charging Jorge Ayala in another drug-related killing. With the drug wars, a shootout could breakout anywhere at all. The notorious shooting spree occurred on July 11, 1979, and branded Miami one of the most violent cities in the United States. One thing is known for certain — who gave the order. In reality, it was a setup and Suescun was marked for execution. Historians trace the birth of the entire crazy “Cocaine Cowboys Era” in South Florida to a single event: the headline-grabbing Dadeland Mall Massacre on July 11, 1979 where two Miami drug world figures were slain in a Wild-West style shootout in the upscale mall’s liquor store. Dolphins’ Tua Tagovailoa gets response from ‘celebrity crush’ Shania Twain, Twin baby girls found at scene of fatal shooting in Pompano Beach, Hospitals filling up, encountering a new kind of coronavirus patient. The seeds of the bloody shopping mall assassination plot were planted in the spring of 1978 when Panesso began feuding with Miami crime boss Carlos Panello Ramirez after Ramirez’s partner robbed Panesso’s home. All Rights Reserved. Metro-Dade and Miami police said they want to charge Jorge Ayala -- also known as El Loco and Eddy Rivera -- in the 1982 death of Johnny Castro, 2, during a Miami drug war. Further, Miami police said they have a warrant charging Jorge Ayala in the double homicide of Alfred and Grisel Lorenzo at their Miami home in May 1982. Panesso and Ramirez both worked with Colombian drug baron Griselda (The Godmother) Blanco of the mammoth Medellin Cartel, maybe the most ruthless, feared and notorious female criminal of all-time. Al Profit & Scott M. Burnstein. --Jorge Ayala, 30, is described by Singleton as the "main player." Convicted of narcotics trafficking out of New York in 1986 and then additional charges once behind bars thanks to Ayala’s cooperation (he connected her to over two dozen gangland slayings), Griselda Blanco did 19 years in federal prison before being deported back to Colombia in 2004. Six days later, on April 23, 1978, Suescun was lured to a Miami Beach townhouse under the pretense of selling the 10 keys of blow he lifted from Panesso’s place. The hit team arrived in a white van with the words Happy Time Complete Party Supply on the side. The cashier and a stockboy were also wounded in the attack. Three men who police say are linked to the 1984 machine-gun slaying of a Hollywood man may be part of the ring of drug cartel hitmen that made its grisly debut in the 1979 Dadeland … Blanco, who is now in a federal prison, headed one of Colombia's most powerful drug families. The brazen robbery of drug kingpin German Jimenez Panesso’s Miami home in the spring of 1978 set off a chain of events eventually resulting in the infamous Dadeland Mall Massacre in nearby Kendall, Florida over a year later. Velasquez also is a suspect in the slaying of Atehortua's stepson, John Henry Garcia, who was shot in the back of the head in Palm Beach County 24 hours after his stepfather was killed. Ayala was a suspect in a number of signature “Cocaine Cowboy” slayings of the 1980s and eventually became a witness against Blanco in court. It happened when two men in a white Mercedes-Benz and two other men in a white Ford van pulled up to the Crown Liquor store at the Dadeland Mall in Miami. Personally I miss 1980's Dadeland mall, the arcade and the play area was the best, I loved the smell of Burdines, and my dad would drive us down the circular ramp on the way out. Panesso and Hernandez were at the front counter of Crown Liquors buying bottles of Chivas Regal when they were slain. Blanco’s brother-in-law Miguel (Paco) Sepulveda and her most trusted hit man Jorge (Rivi) Ayala blasted Panesso and Panesso’s muscle, Juan Carlos Hernandez, away with uzi sub machine guns in broad daylight at the swanky Dadeland Mall on the afternoon of July 11, 1979. Three men who police say are linked to the 1984 machine-gun slaying of a Hollywood man may be part of the ring of drug cartel hitmen that made its grisly debut in the 1979 Dadeland Mall murders. The slayings shocked the public conscience and proved a tipping point in South Florida drug culture, leading to what has been called the Cocaine Cowboys Era of the 1980s known for neon-lit nightlife, excessive partying and even more bloodshed.



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