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FBI Miami Shooting 4 11 86 — Part 1

78 pages · May 09, 2026 · Document date: Apr 11, 1986 · Broad topic: General · Topic: FBI Miami Shooting 4 11 86 · 75 pages OCR'd
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cs military-type .223 caliber shoulder weapon (witness description suggests an AR-15, Mini-14 or M-16 rapid firing rifle). Subjects obtained $54,000 loot and made their getaway in a 1977 gold- colored Chevrolet Monte Carlo (followed by eye witness and recovered by the FBI) bearing Florida license tag xXQU-157. Subjects switched from getaway car to a white Ford pickup truck and witness surveillance was discontinued. = The 1977 Monte Carlo getaway vehicle recovered in this incident had been reported missing at Miami, Florida, since October 4, 1985, from Emilio Briel, age 25, who mysteriously disappeared that day while target shooting at an abandoned rock pit in rural south Dade County (southwest Miami region). Briel's skeletal remains have been located subsequent to the April 11, 1986, shooting, and forensic examination verifies investigators! presumption of homicide. It is also suspected that Briel's .22 caliber rifl tolen with is automobile, is one of two untraceable t the residence of subject Michael j fiber bullet recovered from the above-dest*9 nks ry Company robbery on January 10, 1986, has been‘matchad 4 let fatally wounding SA Jerry Dove in captioned incideni i f these matched bullets were fired ar Mini-14, Model 3000, in possession of from a Ruger .223 ¢ subject Michael Les @jatt during the shootout with FBI Agents. (4) On March 19, 1986, at 9:30 a.m., two male subjects carrying a short~barrel pump shotgun and a military-type shoulder weapon (possibly a Mini-14) entered the Barnett Bank, 13593 South Dixle Highway, Miami, Florida, obtaining $8,338 in robbery loot. Subjects made their getaway in a 1982 Chevrolet Monte Carlo, black two-door model, bearing Florida license NTJ-891. Investigation determined that the 1982 Chevrolet Monte Carlo, Florida license NTJ-89). was stolen fron age 25, on March 12, 1986, ae target shooting at an We abandoned rock pit in southwes mane (same locale as Briel ile homicide on October 4, 1986), ie: target shooting, two white males arrived at the rock pit in a white Ford pickup truck with off-color striping, brandished ith & Wesson magnum revolver and a Ruger Mini- i hot four times and Monte Carlo as well as his then fled the scene takin two weapons (.38 caliber Smi esson Model 14 revolver and .22 caliber Marlin rifle, Model 60). §§MMMPlived and furnished composite descriptions of his assailants. revolver was recovered at the residence of Michael Lee Platt subsequent to the April 11, 1986, shooting. The four bank robberies briefly described above exhibited numerous similar or identical circumstances and characteristics to warrant a conclusion by investigating Agents that these robberies, as well as the Dade County rock pit -2-
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