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WILLIAM RUSSELL MATIX, ET AL model 3000, used by subject MICHAEL LEE PLATT to fatally wound SA's JERRY DOVE and BENJAMIN GROGRAN during captioned incident. 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 MINI~-14) entered the BARNETT BANK, 13593 South Dixie Highway, Miami, Florida, obtaining $8,338 in robbery loot. Subjects made their getaway in a 1982 Chevrolet Monte Carlo, A : — = tinmernecs =881 black two door model, bearing Florida license NTJ=-891. | investigation determined e 1982 Chevrolet Monte Carlo, (FL) NTJ-891, was stolen from on March 12, 1986, while crecamerti target shooting at an abandoned rock pit in southwest Dade same locale as BRIEL homicide on October 4, 1986). While aS target shooting, two white males arrived at the rock pit in a white Ford pickup truck with off-color striping, brandished a SMITH & WESSON Magnum revolver and a RUGER MINI~14 rifle, shot our times and then fled the scene taking Ay ert Monte Carlo as well as his two weapons (.38 caliber S & WESSON model 14 revolver and .22 caliber MARLIN rifle, Model 60}. lived and furnished composite description of his assailants. revolver was recovered at the residence of MICHAEL LEE subsequent to captioned incident, and MATIX owned a white Ford pick-up truck. The four bank robberies briefly described above exhibited numerous similar or identical circumstances and characteristics to warrant a conclusion by investigating FBI SA's that these robberies, as well as the rock pit shooting Incidents, were carried out by common subjects (exact number unknown). The frequency of the robberies, as well as the relatively confined area of the activity led to a hypothesis that these subjects would carry out similar style robberies in the near future and stage these heists in the same general area. Prior to April 11, 1986, the FBI increased liaison with armored couriers and area banking officers. Local police departments also increased patrol coverage of institutions in the south Miami area. The FBI conducted random surveillance of armored car routes and scheduled deliveries, and saturated the suspect area by quadrant assignment of personnel on dates considered probable robbery days. It was in the furtherance of this technique that SA's were assigned surveillance responsibilities in southwest Miami on April 11, 1986. OPSIS OF SH ING CID. i. APRIL 986 At approximately 6:45 a.m. fourteen SA's, operating out of eleven automobiles, initiated an area canvas/surveillance, loosely covering a target area along South Dixie Highway, (aka U.S. Highway 1) beginning at the north on 130th Street and terminating at the south on 183 Street. This fifty-three block long stretch is primarily a ‘high density commercial zone = my. incorporating five banks, with heavy pedestrian and vehicle ‘teraffic during commuting and working ye